List of Balliol College, Oxford people

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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]

  • Algernon Charles Swinburne

  • Robert Southey

  • Sir Julian Huxley

  • Lt. Arthur Rhys Davids

Alumni[]

Economists[]

Adam Smith.

Historians[]

James H. Billington.
  • 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
  • Manning Clark (1938)
  • Peter Calvocoressi (1931)
  • 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]
  • Arthur Marwick (1957)
  • Sir Henry Marten
  • 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
  • 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[]

Thomas Bingham.
John Marshall Harlan II Supreme Court of the United States Associate Justice.
  • 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
  • Alan Rodger
  • Robert Reed
  • Jennifer Robinson (2006)
  • William Nimmo Smith
  • Mathew Thorpe (1957)
  • Theodore Tylor
  • Ian Watson (1960)
  • Simon Walsh, Barrister and Alderman of the City of London
  • William Wickham (1831–1897)

Authors and artists[]

Henry Sweet.
Aldous Huxley.
  • 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
  • Nicholas Kenyon (1969)
  • Sidney Lee
  • John Gibson Lockhart
  • Howard Marks (1964)
  • Ved Mehta (1956)
  • David Binning Monro
  • Nicholas Mosley
  • John Nichol
  • Beverley Nichols
  • Anthony Powell (1923)
  • Peter Quennell (1923)
  • Zia Haider Rahman
  • Robert Scott
  • Samuel Shem (Stephen Bergman) (1966)
  • Logan Pearsall Smith (1891)
  • Nevil Shute
  • Robert Southey
  • Olaf Stapledon
  • George Steiner (1950)
  • Julian Sturgis
  • Henry Sweet (1869)
  • John Addington Symonds
  • Laurence Whistler (1946)
  • Miron "Oxxxymiron" Fyodorov (2004)
  • Aly Kassam-Remtulla

Mathematicians, scientists and technologists[]

Baruch Samuel Blumberg.
  • George Alberti
  • Ewan Birney
  • Baruch Blumberg (1957)
  • E. J. Bowen
  • James Bradley
  • Benjamin Brodie (1835)
  • Richard Dawkins (1959)
  • Peter Donnelly
  • Atul Gawande (1987)
  • David Gregory (1692)
  • 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
  • Donald Michie (1945)
  • Avrion Mitchison
  • Alexander Oppenheim
  • Julian Peto
  • Alexander George Ogston (1929)
  • Henry John Stephen Smith
  • Bill Smythies (1931)
  • James Stirling
  • William Spottiswoode
  • Herbert Squire
  • Gilbert Strang (1955)
  • E. C. Titchmarsh (1917)
  • J. H. C. Whitehead
  • Robin Wilson (1962)
  • James Maynard (2009)
  • Daniel Adzei Bekoe

Media[]

Robert Peston, BBC Business editor
Peter Snow, television presenter

Other[]

Philosophers and social and political theorists[]

  • 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)
  • Ernest Gellner (1942)
  • Robert Maximilian de Gaynesford (1986)
  • Thomas Hill Green
  • William Hamilton
  • Peter Geach (1934)
  • Stuart Hampshire (1933)
  • R. M. Hare (1937)
  • C. E. M. Joad (1910)
  • Harold Joachim
  • Anthony Kenny (1964)
  • John Lucas (1947)
  • Steven Lukes
  • Stephen Macedo (1980)
  • Neil MacCormick
  • John Macmurray
  • Robert Ranulph Marett
  • David Miller (1967)
  • Stephen Mulhall
  • Richard Lewis Nettleship
  • William Newton-Smith (1967)
  • Toby Ord
  • Herbert James Paton
  • Michael Otsuka (1986)
  • Derek Parfit (1961)
  • 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)
  • Martin Litchfield West
  • William Wallace
  • Bernard Williams (1947)
  • Timothy Williamson (1974)
  • John Cook Wilson (1868)
  • Richard Wollheim (1941)

Poets[]

Hilaire Belloc.
Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Politicians[]

Currently active[]

Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 2019-present.
Yvette Cooper, British Labour politician, former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

Members of Parliament

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[]

UK politicians active post-World War II[]

Roy Jenkins, British Labour politician, former Home Secretary.
Denis Healey, British Labour politician, former Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

UK politicians active between World War I and World War II[]

Lord Curzon.
H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • 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[]

  • 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[]

Richard von Weizsäcker.
  • Australia
    • Kim Beazley
  • Canada
    • Bob Rae
    • Vincent Massey
  • Germany
  • Hong Kong SAR
  • Kenya
    • Wambu Mathu
  • Norway
    • Harald V
    • Olav V
  • Malaysia
    • Tuanku Jaafar
  • Botswana
    • Seretse Khama
  • Japan
    • Masako Owada
  • South Africa
    • Jan Hofmeyr
  • Sri Lanka
    • Lakshman Kadirgamar
  • United States
    • James Burnham
    • Christopher Dell
    • E. J. Dionne
    • Philip Mayer Kaiser
    • Matthew Nimetz
    • Michael Sandel
    • Paul Sarbanes
    • George Stephanopoulos

Theologians and clergy[]

John Wycliffe.
Cardinal Manning.
Shoghi Effendi Rabbani, The head of the Baháʼí Faith (1921–1957).
  • Mirza Nasir Ahmad
  • George Abbot
  • John Bell
  • Lionel Blue
  • Israel Brodie
  • Alexander Bryant
  • Thomas Byles
  • John Douglas
  • Shoghi Effendi
  • Frederick William Faber
  • Austin Farrer
  • Cardinal Heard
  • Ronald Knox
  • Cosmo Lang
  • Henry Manning
  • 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
  • Thomas More (suggested but undocumented)

Classical scholars[]

Fictional[]

Notable applicants who were not matriculated[]

  • Isaiah Berlin
  • Daniel Cohn-Bendit
  • Tony Blair
  • Bill Clinton
  • Daniel Dennett
  • Colin McGinn
  • Lytton Strachey
  • A. Hyatt Mayor

Balliol Chancellors of Oxford University[]

  • Richard Fitzralph (1332)
  • William de Wilton (1374)
  • (1426) [12]
  • (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[]

Main article: List of Masters of Balliol College, Oxford

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".[13] The current Master of Balliol is Helen Ghosh.[14]

See also[]

  • List of Balliol College academics

References[]

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  3. ^ Balliol College (University of Oxford) (1953). The Balliol College Register (3rd ed.). Oxford. Retrieved 25 March 2013.(1953, covering matriculations 1900-1950)
  4. ^ "Balliol Women: Some Alumnae of the College | Balliol College, University of Oxford". www.balliol.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  5. ^ 'RIDLEY, Sir Adam (Nicholas)', in Who's Who 2014 (London: A. & C. Black, 2014)
  6. ^ '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)
  7. ^ Russell, James. "LES GRANDS NUMISMATES: George Macdonald (1862-1940; Kt 1927)" (PDF). Retrieved 5 January 2018.
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  9. ^ "Archives & Manuscripts - Memorial inscriptions". Balliol College. 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  10. ^ "Memorial inscriptions". Balliol College Archives & Manuscripts. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  11. ^ Selinger-Morris, Samantha (2020-08-12). "Who is Maxwell and what is she charged with?". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2021-04-26.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ Statute II "The Master", clause 1
  14. ^ "Election of New Master". Balliol College, Oxford. 18 March 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
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