Graham Turner (1950) died in May 2024, aged 91. He was one of the school's best-known former pupils, as a writer and reporter. Known in Fleet Street as 'Great Earner', he was one of the most sought-after freelance journalists of his day, and for more than 30 years, a star feature writer, mainly but by no means exclusively for The Telegraph newspaper group, as well as a prolific author.

Graham enjoyed a successful King's career, both academically and outside the classroom, played 1st XI cricket and was editor of the school magazine in Sixth Form. After leaving King's in 1950, he read Modern History at Oxford, then had a year at Stanford, California on a prestige scholarship, and national service in the RAF. He joined the editorial staff at The Scotsman in 1958, before joining the BBC in 1964.

He was appointed as the BBC's first-ever Economics Correspondent, in his own words,'struggling to illumine the mysteries of paper, gold and invisible exports for those who understood even less about them than I did!’ 

Graham left the BBC to go freelance, and began his noted career writing on a wide range of subjects, always with a caustic, critical approach that made him one of the media's best-known commentators on world and domestic affairs. One of his great attributes was his ability to get people to open up to him; Margaret Thatcher, for example, regarded him as one of her favourite interviewers; a previous PM, Harold Wilson, one day when told by Turner that he came from Macclesfield, retorted 'that's the trouble - everyone comes from Macclesfield, but nobody goes back there!' Deeply religious all his life, when Graham semi-retired, he became a lay preacher at Salisbury Cathedral.