W. H. Auden (1907 – 1973). Attended Gresham’s from 1920 to 1925 (Farfield). Today, the School’s theatre is named after him. He is most famous for his poems, Funeral Blues and September 1st, 1939. The Russian poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky called him ‘the greatest mind of the twentieth Century’. Richard Wasey Chopping (1917 – 2008). Attended Gresham’s […]