List of people associated with Balliol College, Oxford
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The following is a list of notable people associated with Balliol College, Oxford, including alumni and Masters of the college. When available, year of matriculation is provided in parentheses, as listed in the relevant edition of The Balliol College Register or in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Complete (or very nearly complete) lists of Fellows and students, arranged by year of matriculation, can be found in the published Balliol College Register; the 1st edition,[1] 2nd edition[2] and 3rd edition.[3]
This list of notable alumni consists almost entirely of men, because women were admitted to the college only from 1979.[4]
Alumni[edit]
Economists[edit]
- Lionel Barnett Abrahams (1892)
- W. G. S. Adams
- Sir William Ashley
- Sir William Beveridge
- G. D. H. Cole
- Gavyn Davies (1972)
- Charles Stanton Devas
- Peter Donaldson
- Francis Edgeworth
- Stephanie Flanders
- John Hicks
- Donald MacDougall (1931)
- Patrick Minford
- Deepak Nayyar (1974)
- Otto Niemeyer
- Michael Posner
- Sir Adam Ridley[5]
- James Robertson (1946)
- Walter Rostow (1936)
- Adam Smith
- Lester Thurow (1960)
Historians[edit]
- Gerald Aylmer
- Timothy Barnes (1960)
- C. A. Bayly
- John Beazley (1903)
- Maxine Berg
- James H. Billington (1950)
- Daniel J. Boorstin (1934)
- Glen Bowersock (1957)
- Denis Brogan
- Peter Calvocoressi (1931)
- Manning Clark (1938)
- Max Crawford
- Donald Creighton
- Fin Crisp
- H. W. C. Davis
- R. H. C. Davis (1937)
- O. M. Edwards
- Geoff Eley
- Charles Harding Firth
- Vivian Hunter Galbraith
- Keith Hancock (1921)
- R. M. Hartwell
- Peter Hayes (1968)
- Christopher Hill (1931)
- Rodney Hilton
- Robert Howard Hodgkin
- John Keegan
- Maurice Keen
- John La Nauze
- Jeremy Lawrance (1971)[6]
- Suzannah Lipscomb (2009)
- George Macdonald[7]
- Sir Henry Marten
- Arthur Marwick (1957)
- Frank McDonough
- H. J. R. Murray (1887)
- Lewis Namier (1908)
- Philip Nord
- F. M. Powicke
- Tapan Raychaudhuri (1957)
- H. J. Rose (c.1905)
- Raphael Samuel
- Dominic Sandbrook
- Timothy D. Snyder (1995)
- Richard Southern (1929)
- Hugh Stretton (1946)
- R. H. Tawney (1899)
- Keith Thomas
- Arnold J. Toynbee (1907)
- Bernard Wasserstein
- Patrick Wormald (1966)
Lawyers[edit]
- Joel Bakan (Vancouver, BC)
- Henry Bathurst
- Peter Benenson (1939)
- Thomas Bingham (1954)
- Charles Bowen
- Henry Brooke
- George Carman (1949)
- Joseph William Chitty
- John Coleridge
- Thomas Coventry
- Albert Venn Dicey
- Charles Isaac Elton
- John Marshall Harlan II
- Brian Hutton (1950)
- Courtenay Ilbert
- Nicholas Katzenbach (1947)
- Roger Ludlow
- Alan Stewart Orr
- John Popham
- Robert Reed
- Jennifer Robinson (2006)
- Alan Rodger
- William Nimmo Smith
- Mathew Thorpe (1957)
- Theodore Tylor
- Simon Walsh, Barrister and Alderman of the City of London
- Ian Watson (1960)
- William Wickham (1831–1897)
Authors and artists[edit]
- Archibald Alison (1775)
- Robert Barnard
- Kyril Bonfiglioli (1955)
- Harold Boulton
- Norman O. Brown (1932)
- Richard Buckle
- W. J. Burley
- Sydney Carter (1933)
- Amit Chaudhuri
- John Churton Collins
- John Stewart Collis
- Cyril Connolly
- David Daiches (1934)
- Rana Dasgupta (1990)
- Robertson Davies (1935)
- Dan Davin (1936)
- Kenneth Dover (1938)
- Robinson Ellis (1852)
- John Evelyn
- Henry Watson Fowler
- Grey Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie
- Graham Greene (1922)
- Jasper Griffin (1956)
- Stephen Grosz (1952) psychoanalyst and writer
- Inglis Gundry (1923)
- William Hardie (1880)
- L. P. Hartley
- Anthony Hope Hawkins
- Victor Hely-Hutchinson
- Aldous Huxley (1913)
- Julian Huxley
- Aly Kassam-Remtulla
- Nicholas Kenyon (1969)
- Sidney Lee
- John Gibson Lockhart
- Howard Marks (1964)
- Ved Mehta (1956)
- David Binning Monro
- Nicholas Mosley
- John Nichol
- Beverley Nichols
- Oxxxymiron (2004)
- Anthony Powell (1923)
- Peter Quennell (1923)
- Zia Haider Rahman
- Robert Scott
- Samuel Shem (Stephen Bergman) (1966)
- Nevil Shute
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1891)
- Robert Southey
- Olaf Stapledon
- George Steiner (1950)
- Julian Sturgis
- Henry Sweet (1869)
- John Addington Symonds
- Laurence Whistler (1946)
- Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead (1880)
Mathematicians, scientists and technologists[edit]
- George Alberti
- Daniel Adzei Bekoe
- Ewan Birney
- Baruch Blumberg (1957)
- E. J. Bowen
- James Bradley
- Noah Bridges (fl. 1661)
- Benjamin Brodie (1835)
- Richard Dawkins (1959)
- Peter Donnelly
- Atul Gawande (1987)
- Raymond Michael Gaze (1949)
- David Gregory (1692)
- Graham Higman (1935)
- Robert Hinde (1948)
- Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
- Alex Jadad (1992)
- R. V. Jones (1934)
- Jeremy Knowles (1955)
- Heinrich Gerhard Kuhn (1950)
- Anthony James Leggett (1955)
- Christopher Longuet-Higgins (1941)
- Holbrook Mann MacNeille
- James Maynard (2009)
- Donald Michie (1945)
- Avrion Mitchison
- Alexander George Ogston (1929)
- Alexander Oppenheim
- Julian Peto
- Matilda Simon, 3rd Baroness Simon of Wythenshawe (2001)
- Henry John Stephen Smith
- Bill Smythies (1931)
- William Spottiswoode
- Herbert Squire
- James Stirling
- Gilbert Strang (1955)
- E. C. Titchmarsh (1917)
- J. H. C. Whitehead
- Robin Wilson (1962)
Media[edit]
- David Aaronovitch
- David Astor
- Chadwick Boseman[8]
- Stephen Bush
- Vanessa Engle
- Martin Fido
- Maurice Gorham
- Christopher Hitchens
- Henry Vincent Hodson
- John Keegan
- Martin Kettle
- Andrew Knight
- Charles Krauthammer
- Raymond Massey
- Roger Mayne
- Robert Peston
- William Rees-Mogg
- John Schlesinger
- Dan Snow
- Peter Snow
- Peter Usborne
- Hugo Young
Other[edit]
- Johnny Acton (1989)
- Leonard Barden
- Nick Bevan, rowing coach and headmaster
- Robert Birley
- Cyril George Fox Cartwright[9]
- Herbert Coleridge
- Charles R. Conn
- Cressida Dick, commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police and daughter of Balliol Senior Tutor Marcus Dick
- Owen Morgan Edwards
- Sir Nigel Foulkes, Chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority[10]
- Richard Powell Francis, teacher and first Australian to graduate from Balliol[11]
- John Fulton
- Sir Archibald Philip Hope, 17th Baronet
- Nicola Horlick
- Cecil Jackson-Cole
- Frederick Septimus Kelly
- Richard Lambert
- John Aidan Liddell
- Arnold Lunn
- Hardit Malik
- Ghislaine Maxwell, socialite and convicted child sex trafficker[12]
- Grigor McClelland
- J. Irwin Miller (1931)
- Leif Mills
- William Monson
- Clare Moriarty
- George Ferris Whidborne Mortimer
- Geoff Mulgan
- Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
- Raj Patel
- Raaphi Persitz
- Alec Peterson
- Henry Primrose
- Robert Putnam
- John Rennie
- Arthur Rhys-Davids
- Alan Rotherham (1881)
- Warren Rovetch[13]
- Peter Sedgwick
- Richard Sharp
- Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall
- Leon Simon
- Martin Taylor
- Anthony Teasdale (1975)
- John Templeton
- Henry Hawkins Tremayne (1759)
- Shyamji Krishna Varma
- Adrian Carton de Wiart, left before graduating to fight in Boer War
Philosophers and social and political theorists[edit]
- Samuel Alexander
- J. L. Austin
- Sir Ernest Barker
- Alfred Barratt
- Roy Bhaskar (1963)
- Bernard Bosanquet
- Edward Caird
- Herman Cappelen (1987)
- Austin Marsden Farrer
- John Niemeyer Findlay
- Kit Fine (1964)
- Paul W. Franks (1983)
- Graeme Garrard (1990)
- Robert Maximilian de Gaynesford (1986)
- Peter Geach (1934)
- Ernest Gellner (1942)
- Thomas Hill Green
- William Hamilton
- Stuart Hampshire (1933)
- R. M. Hare (1937)
- Katherine Hawley (1989)
- Harold Joachim
- C. E. M. Joad (1910)
- Anthony Kenny (1964)
- John Lucas (1947)
- Steven Lukes
- Neil MacCormick
- Stephen Macedo (1980)
- John Macmurray
- Robert Ranulph Marett
- David Miller (1967)
- Stephen Mulhall
- Richard Lewis Nettleship
- William Newton-Smith (1967)
- Toby Ord
- Michael Otsuka (1986)
- Derek Parfit (1961)
- Herbert James Paton
- David Pears (1946)
- Joseph Raz (1972)
- David George Ritchie
- W. D. Ross
- Ian Rumfitt (1983)
- Alan Ryan (1959)
- Michael Sandel (1975)
- F. C. S. Schiller
- Leon Simon
- Hans Sluga
- John Alexander Smith
- John Tasioulas (1989)
- Charles Taylor (1952)
- William Wallace
- Martin Litchfield West
- Bernard Williams (1947)
- Timothy Williamson (1974)
- John Cook Wilson (1868)
- Richard Wollheim (1941)
Poets[edit]
- Matthew Arnold
- Henry Charles Beeching
- Hilaire Belloc
- Andrew Cecil Bradley
- Charles Stuart Calverley
- Sydney Bertram Carter
- Arthur Hugh Clough
- Edward Dyer
- Julian Grenfell
- William Money Hardinge
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Andrew Lang
- Walter Lyon
- Francis Turner Palgrave
- F. T. Prince
- Christopher Ricks
- William Young Sellar
- John Campbell Shairp
- Patrick Shaw-Stewart
- Robert Southey (did not graduate)
- Eric Stenbock
- Algernon Charles Swinburne (rusticated 1859)
Politicians[edit]
Currently active[edit]
Members of Parliament
- Yvette Cooper
- Damian Green
- Helen Hayes
- Boris Johnson (Prime Minister)
- Sir Julian Lewis
- Matthew Pennycook
- Rory Stewart
- Charles Tannock (MEP)
- Stephen Twigg
- Robin Walker
House of Lords
- Alan Beith
- Peter Brooke
- James Douglas-Hamilton
- Jo Johnson
- Roger Freeman
- Robert Maclennan
- Patrick Mayhew
- Ralph Palmer
- Chris Patten
- Dick Taverne
MPs and MEPs who completed service after 2000[edit]
- David Faber
- Louis Grech (MEP, Malta)
- Charlotte Leslie
- Neil MacCormick (MEP)
- Ian Pearson
- James Purnell
- Charles Tannock (MEP)
- Stephen Twigg
- Kitty Ussher
- Tony Wright
UK politicians active post-World War II[edit]
- John Boyd-Carpenter
- Alex Callinicos
- George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk
- Dingle Foot
- Hugh Fraser
- Ian Gilmour
- Bryan Gould
- Anthony Greenwood
- Jo Grimond
- Denis Healey
- Edward Heath (Prime Minister)
- Stuart Holland
- Christopher Hollis
- David James
- Roy Jenkins
- Toby Jessel
- Hamilton Kerr
- James MacColl
- John Mackintosh
- Crawford Murray MacLehose
- Harold Macmillan (Prime Minister)
- Walter Monckton
- Madron Seligman
- Frank Soskice
- Dick Taverne
- Mike Woodin
UK politicians active between World War I and World War II[edit]
- Leo Amery
- H. H. Asquith (Prime Minister)
- George Nathaniel Curzon
- Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton
- R Palme Dutt
- Aubrey Herbert
- Alfred Milner
- Harold Nicolson
- Herbert Samuel
- Arthur Steel-Maitland
- Tom Wintringham (did not graduate)
UK politicians pre-World War I[edit]
- Victor Bruce
- Edward Cardwell
- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
- Stafford Northcote
- Arthur Peel
- Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice
- Robert Reid
- Arnold Sandwith Ward
Politicians, statesmen and monarchs in non-UK countries[edit]
- Australia
- Botswana
- Canada
- Germany
- Hong Kong SAR
- Japan
- Kenya
- Norway
- Malaysia
- South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- United States
Theologians and clergy[edit]
- George Abbot
- Mirza Nasir Ahmad
- John Bell
- Lionel Blue
- Alexander Briant
- Israel Brodie
- Thomas Byles
- John Douglas
- Shoghi Effendi
- Frederick William Faber
- Austin Farrer
- Cardinal Heard
- Ronald Knox
- Cosmo Lang
- Henry Manning
- Thomas More (suggested but undocumented)
- John Morton
- George Neville
- Henry Oxenham
- John Coleridge Patteson
- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
- Bill Sykes
- Archibald Campbell Tait
- Frederick Temple
- William Temple
- Godfrey Thring
- Joseph Wood
- John Wycliffe
Classical scholars[edit]
- John Beazley
- Kenneth Dover
- Richard William Hunt
- Edgar Lobel
- Russell Meiggs
- Roger Mynors
- Robin Nisbet
- Robert Scott
- William Watt
Fictional[edit]
- Sir Humphrey Appleby
- The Rev Francis Arabin (from Barchester Towers)
- John Blaylock (from Whitley Streiber's The Hunger)
- Captain Hook
- Sir Arnold Robinson
- Captain John Charity Spring
- Lord Peter Wimsey
Notable applicants who were not matriculated[edit]
- Isaiah Berlin
- Tony Blair
- Bill Clinton
- Daniel Cohn-Bendit
- Daniel Dennett
- A. Hyatt Mayor
- Colin McGinn
- Lytton Strachey
Balliol Chancellors of Oxford University[edit]
- Richard FitzRalph (1332)
- William de Wilton (1374)
- Thomas Chace (1426)[14]
- Richard Rotherham (1440)
- William Grey (1440)
- Robert Thwaytes (1445)
- George Neville (1453); (1461)
- John Morton (1494)
- George Nathaniel Curzon (1907)
- Alfred Milner (1925)
- Edward Grey (1928)
- Harold Macmillan (1960)
- Roy Harris Jenkins (1987)
- Christopher Francis Patten (2003)
Masters of Balliol[edit]
Balliol is run by the Master and Fellows of the college. The Master of the college must be "the person who is, in [the Fellows'] judgement, most fit for the government of the College as a place of religion, learning, and education".[15] The current Master of Balliol is Helen Ghosh.[16]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Balliol College (University of Oxford); Jones, John; Viney, Sally; Hilliard, Edward; Elliott, Ivo d'Oyle; Lemon, Elsie (1914). The Balliol College Register (1st ed.). Oxford. Retrieved 25 March 2013.(1914, covering matriculations 1832-1914)
- ^ Balliol College (University of Oxford) (1934). The Balliol College Register (2nd ed.). Oxford. Retrieved 25 March 2013.(1934, covering matriculations 1833-1933)
- ^ Balliol College (University of Oxford) (1953). The Balliol College Register (3rd ed.). Oxford. Retrieved 25 March 2013.(1953, covering matriculations 1900-1950)
- ^ "Balliol Women: Some Alumnae of the College | Balliol College, University of Oxford". www.balliol.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
- ^ 'RIDLEY, Sir Adam (Nicholas)', in Who's Who 2014 (London: A. & C. Black, 2014)
- ^ 'LAWRANCE, Prof. Jeremy Norcliffe Haslehurst', in Who's Who 2014 (London: A. & C. Black), online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2013, accessed 3 May 2014 (subscription site)
- ^ Russell, James. "LES GRANDS NUMISMATES: George Macdonald (1862-1940; Kt 1927)" (PDF). Retrieved 5 January 2018.
- ^ Singh, Olivia. "Denzel Washington addresses paying for 'Black Panther' star Chadwick Boseman's acting classes: 'Wakanda Forever, but where's my money?'". Insider. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
- ^ "Archives & Manuscripts - Memorial inscriptions". Balliol College. 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
- ^ [https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-16236 "Foulkes, Sir Nigel (Gordon)" in Who's Who online, accessed 21 October 2023 (subscription required)
- ^ "Memorial inscriptions". Balliol College Archives & Manuscripts. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
- ^ Selinger-Morris, Samantha (12 August 2020). "Who is Maxwell and what is she charged with?". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
- ^ "Warren Rovetch Obituary (1926 - 2017) The Daily Camera". Legacy.com. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
- ^ Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas. National Archives.; CP 40 / 677; in 1430; Thomas Chace appears as first name, but as defendant in a case of debt, brought by Thomas Coventre.
- ^ Statute II "The Master", clause 1
- ^ "Election of New Master". Balliol College, Oxford. 18 March 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2011.