List of Wadham College, Oxford people

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A list of Wadham College, Oxford people, including alumni, Fellows, Deans and Wardens of the College. An alphabetical list of alumni of Wadham college can be found here.

Alumni[]

Academics[]

Robert Hooke
Christopher Wren
  • Martin Aitken, archaeometrist
  • Amir Attaran, epidemiologist
  • Charles Badham, classics scholar
  • Owen Barfield, philosopher, author, poet, and critic
  • William Bayliss, physiologist
  • Edward Spencer Beesly, historian and positivist
  • Henry de Beltgens Gibbins, economic historian
  • Richard Bentley, scholar and critic
  • James Theodore Bent, explorer and archaeologist
  • Bernard Bergonzi, literary scholar
  • George Fielding Blandford, psychiatrist
  • Nathan Bodington, first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds
  • Dietrich von Bothmer, art historian
  • Harvie Branscomb, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University
  • William Brown, Master of Darwin College, Cambridge
  • Alan Bullock, historian of Nazi Germany
  • Colin Campbell, geologist
  • Allan Chapman, historian of science
  • Oliver Carmichael, 3rd Chancellor of Vanderbilt University and 20th President of the University of Alabama
  • Anthony Cheetham, materials scientist
  • Robert Caesar Childers, Pali Language Scholar
  • Pamela Clemit, literary critic
  • Richard Congreve, philosopher and positivist
  • Steven Connor, literary scholar
  • Athelstan John Cornish-Bowden, biochemist
  • Sedley Cudmore, economist and Chief Statistician of Canada
  • Peter Day, inorganic chemist
  • Emma Dench, classicist
  • Frederick Augustus Dixey, entomologist
  • Barrie Dobson, historian
  • Nakdimon S. Doniach, lexicographer and linguist
  • Edward Gordon Duff, bibliographer and librarian
  • William Rickatson Dykes, botanist
  • Marcus du Sautoy, mathematician
  • Peter Edwards, historian
  • Henry Emeleus, petrologist
  • John Eveleigh, Provost of Oriel College, Oxford
  • George Stanley Farnell, classist
  • Roderick Floud, economic historian
  • E.B. Ford, ecological geneticist
  • Sandra Fredman, Professor of Law
  • David B. Frohnmayer, President of the University of Oregon and politician
  • Philip A. Gale, chemist
  • Ian Grant, physicist
  • Harry George Grey, theologian and Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford
  • Thomas Guidott, physician
  • Jeffrey Hackney, legal scholar
  • Edith Hall, classics scholar
  • Avraham Harman, diplomat and President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • James Harris, legal scholar, Professor of the London School of Economics and Fellow of the British Academy
  • James Harris, grammarian
  • Robert Hooke, architect, natural philosopher, scientist, polymath, co-founder of the Royal Society
  • Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, architect
  • Ian Grant, physicist
  • Ivor Grattan-Guinness, historian of mathematics
  • Jennifer Ingleheart, classicist
  • Gilbert Ironside the younger, Bishop of Hereford and Warden of Wadham
  • James Jago, physician
  • Frank Jevons, Vice-Chancellor of Durham University
  • Benjamin Kennicott, Hebrew scholar
  • Richard S. Lambert, biographer and broadcaster
  • John Leslie, philosopher
  • David MacDonald, biologist and conservationist
  • Ruth Mace, evolutionary anthropologist
  • Sally Mapstone, Principal of the University of St Andrews
  • P. J. Marshall, historian of the British empire in the 18th century
  • John Mayow, chemist, physician, and physiologist
  • Alister McGrath, Christian apologist and theologian
  • Frank McLynn, historian and biographer
  • Nevil Story Maskelyne, geologist and politician
  • Leslie Mitchell, historian
  • Charles Morton, educator
  • Peter Nailor, civil servant, intellectual and professor
  • William Neile, mathematician
  • Farhan Nizami, scholar in Islamic studies
  • Tony Orchard, inorganic chemist
  • John Parsons, Master of Balliol College, Oxford and Bishop of Peterborough
  • William Plenderleath, antiquarian
  • Josephine Crawley Quinn, ancient historian and archaeologist
  • P. J. Rhodes, ancient historian
  • Stuart J. Russell, computer scientist
  • Phillipp Schofield, historian
  • Henry Albert Schultens, linguist
  • Walter Shirley, priest and historian
  • Tom Solomon, neurologist
  • Thomas Sprat, divine and co-founder of the Royal Society
  • Benjamin Parsons Symons, Warden of Wadham
  • Richard W. Tsien, electric engineer and neurobiologist
  • Wilson Dallam Wallis, anthropologist
  • Ethelbert Dudley Warfield, historian and academic administrator
  • Rex Warner, classicist, writer and translator
  • William Whyte, historian
  • Donald Wiseman, biblical scholar and Assyriologist
  • Sir Christopher Wren, architect and co-founder of the Royal Society
  • William Rickatson Dykes, schoolteacher and plant breeder

Authors, artists, broadcasters and entertainers[]

Melvyn Bragg
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
  • Diran Adebayo, novelist
  • Monica Ali, novelist
  • Hossein Amini, film director and screenplay writer
  • Lindsay Anderson, film director
  • Timothy Bateson, actor
  • Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
  • Melvyn Bragg, television broadcaster & writer
  • Simon Brett, writer
  • Jess Cartner-Morley, fashion editor of The Guardian newspaper
  • Andy Cato, of Groove Armada
  • Alan Connor, journalist and television presenter
  • David Constantine, poet and translator
  • Alan Coren, comic writer
  • Robert Crampton, Times journalist
  • Cecil Day-Lewis, former Poet Laureate
  • Sophie Duker, stand-up comedian and writer
  • James Flint, writer
  • Isabel Fonseca, writer
  • Neil Forrester, Artist and subject of The Real World TV show (London series)
  • Tim Franks, journalist
  • Jonathan Freedland, journalist
  • Peter Gammond, music critic
  • Amelia Gentleman, journalist
  • Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet and playwright
  • John Gross, author and literary critic
  • Tom Gross, journalist and political commentator
  • Francis Wrigley Hirst, journalist
  • Montague Haltrecht, writer and literary critic
  • Tom Holt, author of humorous and military fantasies, and of historical fiction
  • Felicity Jones, actress
  • Reginald Victor Jones, physicist, scientific military intelligence expert and writer
  • Michael Kenyon, novelist
  • Hari Kunzru, novelist
  • Tim McInnerny, actor and comedian
  • Patrick Marber, comedian and playwright
  • Sharon Mascall, journalist, broadcaster and writer
  • Jodhi May, actress
  • Anne McElvoy, journalist and broadcaster
  • Robert McGill, writer and literary critic
  • Hilary Menos, poet
  • Roger Mosey, BBC executive, Director of London 2012 Olympic Games coverage
  • Neil Nightingale, director the BBC Natural History Unit from 2003 to 2009
  • David Patrikarakos, author and journalist
  • Iain Pears, novelist
  • Laurie Penny, author and social activist
  • Rosamund Pike, actress
  • William Rayner, novelist
  • Tony Richardson, English theatre and Academy Award-winning film director and producer
  • Stevan Riley, film director
  • Jude Rogers, judge
  • Michael Rosen, poet and broadcaster
  • Joshua Rozenberg, legal commentator and journalist
  • Carr Scrope, versifier
  • Peter Sculthorpe, composer
  • Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet, wit, dramatist and politician
  • Fatemeh Shams, Award-winning poet and professor of Persian literature at University of Pennsylvania
  • Mary Ann Sieghart, former assistant editor of The Times
  • Leonard Strong, novelist, critic, historian and poet
  • Paul Vaughan, journalist
  • William Walsh, poet and critic
  • Irving Wardle, theatre critic
  • John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, libertine poet and protégé of King Charles II
  • Humbert Wolfe, poet

Clergy[]

Samuel Barnett
Rowan Williams

Politicians and civil servants[]

Robert Blake
Michael Foot
Kamisese Mara
F. E. Smith, 1st Ear of Birkenhead
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon

Other[]

C. B. Fry

Fellows and honorary Fellows[]

  • Alfred Ayer, logical positivist
  • Michael R. Ayers, philosopher
  • John Bamborough, scholar of English literature and founding Principal of Linacre College, Oxford
  • John Bell, Professor of Law and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge
  • T.J. Binyon, Russian literature scholar and crime writer
  • Ian Brownlie, barrister and academic in international law
  • Philip Bullock, Professor of Russian Literature and Music[1]
  • Peter Carter, legal scholar
  • Allan Chapman, historian of science
  • Richard Congreve, philosopher
  • Charles Coulson, applied mathematician, theoretical chemist and religious author
  • Peter Derow, historian of ancient Greece and Rome
  • Frederick Augustus Dixey, former President of the Royal Entomological Society of London
  • Terry Eagleton, Marxist literary theorist
  • Eprime Eshag, Keynesian economist
  • Jeffrey Hackney, legal scholar
  • Andrew Hodges, mathematician, author and Dean of Wadham College
  • Humphrey Hody, clergyman and theologian
  • Thomas Graham Jackson, architect
  • Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, Churchill's scientific adviser during the Second World War
  • Nicholas Lloyd, cleric and lexicographer
  • David Mabberley, botanist, educator and writer
  • Edward Arthur Milne, astrophysicist and mathematician
  • Ted Nelson, American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology
  • Bernard O'Donoghue, Irish poet
  • Roger Penrose, mathematical physicist and philosopher
  • Benjamin Bickley Rogers, classical scholar
  • Richard Sharpe, historian of medieval England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
  • Marcus du Sautoy, mathematician, writer, television presenter
  • Edward Stone, Rector who discovered the active ingredient of Aspirin
  • John Swinton, writer, academic, Church of England clergyman and orientalist
  • Joseph Trapp, clergyman, academic, poet and pamphleteer
  • Theodore Wade-Gery, classical scholar, historian and epigrapher
  • Joseph White, orientalist and theologian
  • John Williams, Welsh lawyer and writer
  • R. J. P. (Bob) Williams, inorganic chemist
  • Robert J.C. Young, post-colonial theorist, cultural critic, and historian

Honorary Fellows[]

  • Abdul Halim of Kedah, Sultan of Kedah
  • Sir Franklin Berman, barrister, judge and arbitrator
  • Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, television broadcaster
  • Sir Brian Burnett, Air Chief Marshal
  • Sir Neil Chalmers, zoologist and former Warden of Wadham
  • Sir Michael Checkland, former [[Director-<nowiki></nowiki>General of the BBC]]
  • Peter Day, inorganic chemist
  • John Dyson, Lord Dyson, Master of the Rolls
  • Sir Roderick Floud, economic historian
  • Sandra Fredman, academic lawyer
  • Sir Sydney Giffard, diplomat and author
  • Allan Gotlieb, Canadian public servant and author
  • Robert Hannigan, former director of GCHQ
  • Allen Hill, bioinorganic chemist
  • Jeremy R. Knowles, former professor of chemistry at Harvard University
  • Lee Shau-kee, businessman
  • David Malcolm, lawyer
  • Sally Mapstone, principal of the University of St Andrews
  • P. J. Marshall, historian of the British Empire
  • Nevil Story Maskelyne, geologist and politician
  • Peter Milliken, lawyer and politician
  • Claus Moser, Baron Moser, statistician and public servant
  • Sir James Munby, judge
  • Michael Nolan, Baron Nolan, judge, first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life (1994–1997), Chancellor of the University of Essex (1997–2002)
  • Ashraf Pahlavi, Princess of Iran
  • Sir Denys Roberts, former British colonial official and judge
  • Sir Christopher Rose, former judge
  • Wasim Sajjad, Pakistani lawyer and legal educator
  • Sir David Smith, botanist
  • Kathleen Sullivan, lawyer
  • , chemist
  • Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Sir , academic and headteacher
  • Robert J. C. Young, philosopher and historian

Wardens[]

The Warden is the college's principal, responsible for its academic leadership, chairing its governing body, and representing it in the outside world. Below is a list of the Wardens of Wadham college in chronological order. Their time in office is given in parentheses.

Deans[]

Responsible for various aspects of the day-to-day student life of the College, the Dean has authority in matters of discipline concerning the behaviour of individuals or groups. Below is a list of the Deans of Wadham college in chronological order, together with their time in office.

  • John Pitt 1613, 1616–17[2]
  • John Goodridge 1613, 1618[2]
  • Matthew Osborne 1614, 1619[2]
  • 1615, Warden 1635–1644[2]
  • Ralph Flexney 1620[2]
  • Alexander Huish 1621[2]
  • Ignatius Jordan 1622[2]
  • Amias Hext 1622–23[2]
  • William Boswell 1624, 1626[2]
  • Francis Strode 1625[2]
  • Gilbert Drake 1627–28[2]
  • William Turner 1629–31[2]
  • John Warren 1632–33[2]
  • Tristram Sugge 1635, 1636[2]
  • Leonard Simons 1637, 1644–1645, 1647[2]
  • Robert Chapline 1638–39[2]
  • Richard Goodridge 1641[2]
  • George Ashwell 1642–43[2]
  • Richard Knightbridge 1646, resigned 1647 and replaced by Leonard Simons[2]
  • Anthony Nourse 1647[2]
  • Samuel Lee 1653[2]
  • John Ball 1659, died 1660 and replaced by William Turges[2]
  • Walter Pope 1660[2]
  • Daniel Estcott 1661[2]
  • Thomas Jeamson 1662, 1667[2]
  • John Chase 1663, 1671[2]
  • Brian Cave 1665, 1668[2]
  • Nathaniel Salter 1669[2]
  • William Thornton 1670[2]
  • George Fletcher 1672, 1676, died 1676 and replaced by William Shortgrave[2]
  • John Ludwell 1673–1674[2]
  • Thomas Lessey 1675[2]
  • Robert Pitt 1677[2]
  • Robert Balch 1678[2]
  • William Latton 1679[2]
  • William Gould 1681[2]
  • George Harding 1683, replaced by Thomas Lyndesay[2]
  • Thomas Pigott 1684[2]
  • Alexander Crooke 1685[2]
  • Thomas Lidgould 1686[2]
  • Thomas Dunster 1687[2]
  • Humphrey Hody 1688[2]
  • Robert Doyley 1689[2]
  • William Hunt 1719[2]
  • John Leaves 1720, 1725, 1727[2]
  • Robert Nash 1721[2]
  • George Bowditch 1722, 1726[2]
  • Philip Speke 1723–24[2]
  • Edwyn Sandys 1728[2]
  • Stopford Jacks c.1925
  • John Frederick Stenning, Warden 1927–1938
  • Maurice Bowra c.1922–1938, Warden 1938–70
  • A.J. Ayer 1945, philosopher
  • John Bamborough 1947–54, founding Principal of Linacre College, Oxford
  • T.J. Binyon ?–1976 & 1980s, literary scholar and writer
  • David Mabberley 1976–82 and 1991–96, botanist and writer
  • James Morwood 2000–2006, Grocyn Lecturer in Classics
  • Robin McCleery ?–2008
  • Paul Martin 2009
  • Andrew Hodges 2011–2014, mathematician and writer
  • Martin Bureau, 2014–2016, Lindemann Fellow and Tutor in Physics, astrophysicist
  • Claudia Pazos Alonso, 2016–2019. Fellow & Tutor in Portuguese.
  • Andrew D Farmery 2019-present, Sir Samuel Scott of Yews Fellow & Tutor in Medicine. Professor of Anaesthetics.

References[]

  1. ^ "Prof P R Bullock". Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. University of Oxford. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw Gardine, Robert. The registers of Wadham college, Oxford ... From 1613 to 1871.
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