List of Balliol College people
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. More than one in twenty Balliol alumni are listed in Who's Who. 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]
Alumni
Economists
- 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
- Michael Posner
- Sir Adam Ridley[4]
- James Robertson (1946)
- Walter Rostow (1936)
- Adam Smith
- Lester Thurow (1960)
- Otto Niemeyer
Historians
- Timothy Barnes (1960)
- John Beazley (1903)
- James H. Billington (1950)
- Daniel J. Boorstin (1934)
- Manning Clark (1938)
- Peter Calvocoressi (1931)
- Donald Creighton
- H. W. C. Davis
- R. H. C. Davis (1937)
- Charles Harding Firth
- Vivian Hunter Galbraith
- Keith Hancock (1921)
- Christopher Hill (1931)
- Jeremy Lawrance (1971)[5]
- Arthur Marwick (1957)
- Sir Henry Marten
- Frank McDonough
- H. J. R. Murray (1887)
- Lewis Namier (1908)
- Tapan Raychaudhuri (1957)
- H. J. Rose (c.1905)
- Richard Southern (1929)
- R.H. Tawney (1899)
- Arnold J. Toynbee (1907)
- Patrick Wormald (1966)
Lawyers
- Joel Bakan (Vancouver, BC)
- Henry Bathurst
- Peter Benenson (1939)
- Thomas Bingham (1954)
- Charles Bowen
- 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
- William Nimmo Smith
- John Popham
- Joseph Raz (1972)
- Jennifer Robinson (2006)
- 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
- Archibald Alison (1775)
- Robert Barnard
- Kyril Bonfiglioli (1955)
- Harold Boulton
- Norman O. Brown (1932)
- Richard Buckle
- W. J. Burley
- Sydney Carter (1933)
- 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
- 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)
Mathematicians, scientists and technologists
- George Alberti
- Ewan Birney
- Baruch Blumberg (1955)
- E. J. Bowen
- James Bradley
- Richard Dawkins (1959)
- Peter Donnelly
- Atul Gawande (1987)
- David Gregory (1692)
- Robert Hinde (1948)
- Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
- Alejandro R. Jadad Bechara (1992)
- R. V. Jones (1934)
- Jeremy Knowles (1955)
- Anthony James Leggett (1955)
- Christopher Longuet-Higgins (1941)
- Holbrook Mann MacNeille
- Donald Michie (1945)
- Avrion Mitchison
- Christopher John Nuttall (1989)
- Alexander Oppenheim
- Julian Peto
- Alexander George Ogston (1929)
- Henry John Stephen Smith
- Bill Smythies (1931)
- James Stirling
- William Spottiswoode
- Gilbert Strang (1955)
- E. C. Titchmarsh (1917)
- J. H. C. Whitehead
- Robin Wilson (1962)
- James Maynard (2009)
Media
- David Aaronovitch
- David Astor
- Vanessa Engle
- Martin Fido
- Maurice Gorham
- Christopher Hitchens
- Henry Vincent Hodson
- John Keegan
- Martin Kettle
- Andrew Knight
- Charles Krauthammer
- Raymond Massey
- Robert Peston
- William Rees-Mogg
- John Schlesinger
- Peter Snow
- Dan Snow
- Peter Usbourne, founder of Private Eye and Usborne Books[6]
- Hugo Young
Other
- Johnny Acton (1989)
- Leonard Barden
- Sir Ernest Barker
- Nick Bevan, rowing coach and headmaster
- Robert Birley
- Munir Butt
- Herbert Coleridge
- Charles R. Conn
- Arthur Rhys Davids
- Cressida Dick
- Owen Morgan Edwards
- John Fulton
- Nicola Horlick
- Richard Lambert
- John Aidan Liddell
- Arnold Lunn
- Frederick Septimus Kelly
- J. Irwin Miller (1931)
- Leif Mills
- William Monson
- George Ferris Whidborne Mortimer
- Geoff Mulgan
- Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
- Raj Patel
- Raaphi Persitz
- Alec Peterson
- Henry Primrose
- Robert Putnam
- John Rennie
- Alan Rotherham, (1881)
- Peter Sedgwick
- Richard Sharp
- Shed Simove
- Martin Taylor
- John Templeton
- Henry Hawkins Tremayne (1759)
- Adrian Carton De Wiart, left before graduating to fight in Boer War
- Cecil Jackson-Cole
- Shyamji Krishna Varma
Philosophers
- Samuel Alexander
- J. L. Austin
- Alfred Barratt
- Roy Bhaskar (1963)
- Bernard Bosanquet
- Edward Caird
- Herman Cappelen (1987)
- Thomas Case
- Austin Marsden Farrer
- John Niemeyer Findlay
- 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)
- Alfred Hornlé
- C.E.M. Joad
- Harold Joachim
- Anthony Kenny (1964)
- John Lucas (1947)
- Stephen Macedo (1980)
- John Macmurray
- Robert Ranulph Marett
- David Miller (1967)
- Stephen Mulhall
- Richard Lewis Nettleship
- William Lambert Newman
- William Newton-Smith (1967)
- Herbert James Paton
- Michael Otsuka (1986)
- Derek Parfit (1961)
- David George Ritchie
- W. D. Ross
- Ian Rumfitt (1983)
- Alan Ryan (1959)
- Michael Sandel (1975)
- F.C.S. Schiller
- John Alexander Smith
- John Tasioulas (1989)
- Charles Taylor (1952)
- Martin Litchfield West
- William Wallace
- Bernard Williams (1947)
- Timothy Williamson
- John Cook Wilson (1868)
- Richard Wollheim (1941)
Poets
- Matthew Arnold
- Hilaire Belloc
- Henry Charles Beeching
- 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
- Robert Southey (did not graduate)
- Eric Stenbock
- Patrick Shaw-Stewart
- Algernon Charles Swinburne (rusticated 1859)
Politicians
Currently active
Members of Parliament
- Alan Beith 73-
- Yvette Cooper 97-
- Damian Green 97-
- Helen Hayes (politician)
- Jo Johnson 10-
- Charlotte Leslie 10-
- Julian Lewis 97-
- Rory Stewart 10-
- Stephen Twigg 97-05, 10-
- Robin Walker 10-
- Boris Johnson (Mayor of London) 08-
- Charles Tannock (MEP) 99-
- Louis Grech (MEP, Malta) 04-
House of Lords
- Peter Brooke
- James Douglas-Hamilton
- Roger Freeman
- Ralph Palmer
- Robert Maclennan
- Patrick Mayhew
- Chris Patten
MPs who completed service after 2000
- David Faber 1992-2001
- Ian Pearson 1994-2010
- James Purnell 2001-2010
- Stephen Twigg 1997-2005
- Kitty Ussher 2005-2010
- Tony Wright 1997-2010
- Neil MacCormick (MEP) 1999-2004
UK politicians active post-World War II
- 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
- Leo Amery
- H. H. Asquith (Prime Minister)
- George Nathaniel Curzon
- Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton
- 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
- Australia
- Canada
- Germany
- Kenya
- Norway
- Malaysia
- Botswana
- Japan
- South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- Thailand
- Prince Swasti Sobhon
- United States
Theologians and clergy
- 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
- John Wycliffe
- Thomas More (suggested but undocumented)
Fictional
- 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
- 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)
- Thomas Chace (1426) [7]
- 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
Balliol College, Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, 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".[8] The current Master of Balliol is Drummond Bone, a scholar of the Romantic poet Lord Byron. He has held the post since October 2011, following his retirement as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool in 2008.[9]
See also
References
- ↑ Balliol College (University of Oxford); Jones, John; Viney, Sally; Hilliard, Edward; Elliott, Ivo d'Oyle, Lemon, Elsie (1914). The Balliol College Register (1 ed.). Oxford. Retrieved 25 March 2013. (1914, covering matriculations 1832-1914)
- ↑ Balliol College (University of Oxford) (1934). The Balliol College Register (2 ed.). Oxford. Retrieved 25 March 2013.(1934, covering matriculations 1833-1933)
- ↑ Balliol College (University of Oxford) (1953). The Balliol College Register (3 ed.). Oxford. Retrieved 25 March 2013.(1953, covering matriculations 1900-1950)
- ↑ '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)
- ↑ http://www.usbornefamilytree.com/peter1937.htm
- ↑ 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.