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] To assist with verification, each name links to its Wikipedia page (except for those so ancient that no page exists). Each name only appears once in the lists, even though the person may have established themselves in more than one category.
Alumni
[edit]Economists
[edit]Banking and finance
[edit]- Charles R. Conn (c1982) Rhodes Scholar, business creator
- Nicola Horlick (1979) fund manager "superwoman"
- Martin Taylor (c1971) CEO Barclays Bank
- Sir Adam Ridley[6] 1961 director of several banks
- James Robertson 1946 Director, Inter-Bank Research Organisation
- John Templeton 1934 Rhodes Scholar, Fund Manager
- Sir Otto Niemeyer 1902 Bank of England director
- Oswald Toynbee Falk 1898 stockbroker
Historians
[edit]Political, social and economic historians
[edit]Image | Name | Date of admission | Field of work | Comments | References |
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Maxine Berg | 2009 | Industrial Revolution | FBA, Warwick University Professor | ||
Arthur Marwick | 1957 | Historiographer | "The New Nature of History" 1971 | ||
Raphael Samuel | 1952 | Working Class | ” one of the most outstanding, original intellectuals of his generation “ | ||
Hugh Stretton | 1946 | Urban history | "one of Australia's leading public intellectuals" | ||
R. M. Hartwell | 1948 | Industrial Revolution | "The Rising Standard of Living in England, 1800–1850" (1961) | ||
Fin Crisp | 1939 | Political science | Rhodes Scholar, “The Parliamentary Government of the Commonwealth of Australia” 1949 | ||
Peter Calvocoressi | 1931 | Post–Cold War era | World Politics Since 1945; World Politics 1945-2000 | ||
Sir Denis Brogan | 1923 | History of the United States government | “The American Political System 1933 | ||
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Sir Keith Hancock | 1931 | British Empire | Chichele Professor of Economic History, “The British War Economy” 1949 | |
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Sir Lewis Namier | 1908 | The History of Parliament | “History of Parliament” | |
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R. H. Tawney | 1899 | Christian socialism | "Tawney exercised the widest influence of any historian of his time, politically, socially and, above all, educationally" |
European history
[edit]Image | Name | Date of admission | Field of work | Comments | References |
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Timothy D. Snyder | 1995 | Central Europe | Marshall Scholar, FBA, Fellow, Yale Professor | |
Frank McDonough | 1981 | Second World War | |||
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Anthony Teasdale | 1975 | History of the European Union | ||
Philip Nord | 1971 | History of France | |||
Jeremy Lawrance | 1971 | History of Spain | [7] | ||
Geoff Eley | 1967 | History of Germany | |||
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James H. Billington | 1950 | History of Russia | Rhodes Scholar, 13th Librarian of Congress |
Colonial historians
[edit]Image | Name | Date of admission | Field of work | Comments | References |
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Ronald Robinson | 1971 | British Empire | FBA, Fellow | ||
C. A. Bayly | 1963 | British Empire | |||
Tapan Raychaudhuri | 1953 | History of India | |||
Manning Clark | 1938 | History of Australia | "Australia's most famous historian" | ||
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Daniel J. Boorstin | 1934 | History of America | 12th Librarian of Congress | |
John La Nauze | 1932 | History of Australia | Rhodes Scholar | ||
Max Crawford | 1927 | History of Australia | |||
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Donald Creighton | 1925 | History of Australia |
Early modern historians
[edit]Image | Name | Date of admission | Field of work | Comments | References |
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Suzannah Lipscomb | 2009 | The Tudors | "Not Just the Tudors" | |
Keith Thomas | 1952 | History of Religion | "Religion and the Decline of Magic" | ||
Gerald Aylmer | 1943 | 17th Century | |||
Christopher Hill | 1931 | English Civil War | Master of Balliol, Marxist | ||
Vivian Hunter Galbraith | 1910 | Domesday Book | |||
Charles Harding Firth | 1876 | English Civil War |
Medievalists
[edit]Image | Name | Date of admission | Field of work | Comments | References |
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Patrick Wormald | 1966 | Anglo-Saxons | "The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century" | [8] | |
Jeremy Catto | 1958 | History of Education | "The History of the University of Oxford" | [9] | |
Maurice Keen | 1954 | Chivalry | |||
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Rodney Hilton | 1935 | Feudalism | Marxist | |
R. H. C. Davis | 1937 | Medieval Europe | |||
Richard Southern | 1929 | Middle Ages | "The Making of the Middle Ages" | ||
F. M. Powicke | 1899 | 13th Century | |||
Robert Howard Hodgkin | 1895 | Anglo-Saxons | |||
H. W. C. Davis | 1891 | Medieval Europe | father of RHC Davis |
General historians
[edit]- Dan Snow (c1998) TV historian
- Dominic Sandbrook (c1992) "The Rest is History" podcast
- Sir Henry Marten 1891 instructor, Queen Elizabeth II
- Sir O. M. Edwards 1884 Wales
Middle East and Holocaust historians
[edit]- Peter Hayes (1968) The holocaust
- Bernard Wasserstein 1966 Jewish History
- Sir Leon Simon 1900 Zionist
Archaeologists
[edit]- Sir John Beazley 1903 CH FBA Archaeologist
- Sir George Macdonald[10] 1884
Public intellectuals
[edit]- David Aaronovitch (1972) did not graduate, communist, Orwell Prize winner
- Christopher Hitchens 1967 New Atheist
- Richard Dawkins 1959 FRS "The Selfish Gene"
- C. E. M. Joad 1910 "It all depends on what you mean by.."
- Arnold J. Toynbee 1907 FBA "A Study of History"
Law
[edit]Judges
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- Julian Knowles (c1987) High Court Judge
- Robert Reed (c1978) FRSE President of the Supreme Court
- Alan Rodger (1969) FBA FRSE Justice of the Supreme Court
- William Nimmo Smith 1961 Judge of Supreme Courts of Justice, Scotland
- Mathew Thorpe 1957 Lord Justice of Appeal
- Sir Henry Brooke 1957 Lord Justice of Appeal
- Thomas Bingham 1954 FBA Lord Chief Justice
- Brian Hutton 1950 Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
- Alan Stewart Orr 1933 Lord Justice of Appeal
- John Marshall Harlan II 1921 Rhodes Scholar (started 1922), Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court
- Charles Bowen 1853 FRS Fellow, Visitor, Lord Justice of Appeal
- Joseph William Chitty 1846 High Court Justice
- John Coleridge 1838 Lord Chief Justice
- Henry Bathurst 1730 Lord High Chancellor
- Thomas Coventry 1592 Lord Keeper of the Great Seal
- John Popham (c1549) Lord Chief Justice
Lawyers
[edit]- Jane Stapleton
- Jennifer Robinson (2006) Human rights barrister
- Joel Bakan (c1981) Constitutional law
- Simon Walsh (c1980) Police law
- Hugh Tomlinson (c1973) Media law
- George Carman 1949 Celebrity defence barrister
- Peter Benenson 1939 Human rights barrister, founder Amnesty International
- Charles Isaac Elton 1957 Property Lawyer, "The Great Book Collectors"
- Nicholas Katzenbach 1947 Rhodes Scholar, US Attorney General
- Courtenay Ilbert 1860
- Albert Venn Dicey 1854 "the rule of law"
Music
[edit]- Miron Fyodorov (2004) Russian hip hop artist Oxxxymiron
- Nicholas Kenyon (1969) BBC Radio 3, BBC Proms
- Vernon Handley 1951 Conductor
- John Farmer 1885 College organist, composer and keyboardist
- George Malcolm 1934 harpsichordist
- Richard Buckle 1934 Left after a year. Founded Ballet magazine
- Sydney Carter 1933 "Lord of the Dance"
- Inglis Gundry 1923 Composer
- Victor Hely-Hutchinson 1920 switched to RCM after one year, "Carol Symphony"
- F. S. Kelly 1900 Musician and composer. Olympic gold medallist
- Harold Boulton 1878 "Skye Boat Song"
- Julian Sturgis 1868 "the best serious librettist of the day" (W.S.Gilbert) FA Cup Final winner
Chess
[edit]- Raaphi Persitz 1953 chess master, financial journalist and chess writer
- Leonard Barden 1949 chess master, activist and journalist
- Sir Theodore Tylor 1918 Fellow, blind, jurisprudence don, chess master
- H. J. R. Murray 1887 school inspector, chess historian, "The History of Chess", son of the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary
Writers
[edit]Novelists and playwrights
[edit]- Rana Dasgupta (1990) "Tokyo Cancelled"
- Zia Haider Rahman (c1989) "In the Light of What we Know"
- Amit Chaudhuri (c1983) Literary activist
- Ian Watson 1960 Science fiction
- Robert Barnard 1956 Crime, "Death of an Old Goat"
- Kyril Bonfiglioli 1955 "Mortdecai
- W. J. Burley 1950 Crime, "Wycliffe"
- Dan Davin 1936 Rhodes Scholar, Fellow, "Cliffs of Fall"
- Robertson Davies 1935 "The Deptford Trilogy"
- Anthony Powell 1923 "A Dance to the Music of Time"
- Graham Greene 1922 "The Power and the Glory"
- Nevil Shute Norway Pen name is Nevil Shute "A Town Like Alice" 1918
- Beverley Nichols 1916 "Down the Garden Path"
- L. P. Hartley 1915 "The Go-Between"
- Aldous Huxley 1913 "Brave New World"
- Anthony Hope Hawkins 1881 "The Prisoner of Zenda"
- Charlotte Jones, playwright and actress
Biographers including auto-biographers
[edit]- Howard Marks 1964 cannabis dealer, "Mr Nice",
- Ved Mehta 1956 blind, autobiography
- Nicholas Mosley 1946 wrote critical biography of his father, the fascist Sir Oswald Mosley
- Francis King 1941 "Yesterday Came Suddenly" 1993 autobiography
- Peter Quennell 1923 "the last genuine example of the English man of letters"
- John Stewart Collis 1919 Biography of G.B.Shaw and "The Worm Forgives the Plough" about working the land in WW2
- Sir Sidney Lee 1878 Editor, Dictionary of National Biography
- John Addington Symonds 1858 Shelley, Michelangelo etc
- John Gibson Lockhart 1809 wrote biography of this father-in-law, Sir Walter Scott
- John Evelyn 1637 FRS diarist
Political journalists
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- Stephen Bush (2008) Financial Times
- Robert Peston (c1978) BBC then ITV
- Charles Krauthammer (c1971) Commonwealth Scholar, US conservative
- Martin Kettle 1967 The Guardian, Marxist
- Peter Snow 1958 Current affairs TV presenter
- Hugo Young 1958 The Guardian
- Peter Usborne 1953 co-founder, Private Eye, founder Usborne publishers
Poets
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- Christopher Ricks 1953 literary critic
- F. T. Prince 1931 WW2 "Soldiers Bathing"
- Patrick Shaw-Stewart 1907 WW1 war poet "Achilles in the Trench"
- Julian Grenfell 1906 WW1 war poet
- Walter Lyon 1905 WW1 war poet
- Hilaire Belloc 1893 Catholic literary revival
- Eric Stenbock 1879 (did not graduate) Baltic Swedish poet
- Henry Charles Beeching 1878 Dean of Norwich
- William Money Hardinge 1873 homosexual novels
- Andrew Cecil Bradley 1869 "Shakespearean Tragedy" 1904
- Andrew Lang 1865 FBA folklorist
- Gerard Manley Hopkins 1863 sprung rhythm, Jesuit
- Algernon Charles Swinburne 1856 (rusticated 1859) (did not graduate) poet-novelist-critic
- Charles Stuart Calverley (born Blayds) 1850 (expelled after one year) The university school of humour
- Francis Turner Palgrave 1842 anthologist, Golden Treasury
- Matthew Arnold 1840 sage writer
- John Campbell Shairp 1840 pastoral poet
- Arthur Hugh Clough 1837 secretarial assistant to Florence Nightingale
- Robert Southey 1792 (did not graduate) "Goldilocks and the three bears"
- Sir Edward Dyer (1561) Chancellor of the Order of the Garter
Classicists
[edit]Image | Name | Date of admission | Field of work | Comments | References | |
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Timothy Barnes | 1960 | History of Christianity | FBA, Professor Toronto University | |||
Glen Bowersock | 1957 | Ancient history | Rhodes Scholar, Honorary Fellow | |||
Jasper Griffin | 1956 | Classics | FBA, Fellow, Public Orator | |||
Martin Litchfield West | 1955 | Ancient Greek | OM, FBA,"a man of few words in seven languages" | |||
Robin Nisbet | 1947 | Classical Latin | FBA, Snell Exhibitioner, Corpus Christi Professor of Latin | |||
Russell Meiggs | 1939 | Ancient history | " Trees and timber in the ancient Mediterranean world " 1982 | |||
Sir Kenneth Dover | 1938 | Ancient Greek | Fellow, President British Academy,“Greek Homosexuality” 1978 | |||
William Watt | 1933 | Classics | FBA | |||
Richard William Hunt | 1927 | Paleography | Keeper of the Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library | |||
Roger Mynors | 1922 | Classical Latin | Corpus Christi Professor of Latin | |||
Roland Gregory Austin | 1919 | Philology | Virgil, Professor, Liverpool University | |||
Edgar Lobel | 1907 | Classical Philology | Declined knighthood, Oxyrhynchus Papyri | |||
H. J. Rose | 1904 | Greek mythology | Rhodes Scholar, FBA, "A Handbook of Greek Mythology", chess player | [11] | ||
William Hardie | 1880 | Classics | Fellow, Professor of Humanity at Edinburgh University | |||
Robert Scott | 1835 | Philology | Master, "A Greek-English Lexicon" | [12] | ||
David Binning Monro | 1854 | Homer | FBA Vice-Chancellor | |||
Robinson Ellis | 1852 | Classical Latin | Catullus, Corpus Professor of Latin | |||
William Young Sellar | 1842 | Latin poetry | FRSE, Professor of humanity at Edinburgh University |
Literary scholars
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- George Steiner 1950 Polyglot and polymath
- David Daiches 1934 "A Critical History of English Literature"
- John Livingston Lowes 1930 Eastman Professor, Coleridge and Chaucer
- Cyril Connolly 1922 "Enemies of Promise"
- Logan Pearsall Smith 1888 "Words and Idioms"
- Henry Watson Fowler 1877 "a lexicographical genius" (The Times)
- Henry Sweet 1869 "A Handbook of Phonetics"
- John Churton Collins 1868 "The Study of English Literature"
- John Nichol 1855 Byron, Burns, Carlyle
- Herbert Coleridge 1847
Newspaper editors
[edit]- Andrew Knight 1958 The Economist
- William Rees-Mogg 1946 The Times
- David Astor 1931 CH Did not graduate, The Observer
- Henry Vincent Hodson 1925 The Sunday Times
Television and film
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- Chadwick Boseman[13] (1998 summer school) Superhero actor (US)
- Vanessa Engle (c1980) Documentary maker
- John Schlesinger 1947 Film director "Midnight Cowboy"
- Roger Mayne 1947 Photographer
- Maurice Gorham 1920 Controller of BBC TV
- Raymond Massey 1919 Hollywood actor "Seven Angry Men"
- Michael Winterbottom
Security
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- Cressida Dick, (1979) commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police and daughter of Balliol Senior Tutor Marcus Dick
- Lieutenant-General Simon Mayall (c1975) Defence Senior Advisor Middle East
- Martin Fido 1963 Fellow, True crime writer
- John Keegan 1953 Military historian
- R. V. Jones 1934 FRS "the father of scientific intelligence"
- Sir John Rennie 1932 Director MI6
- Group Captain Archie Hope 1930 DFC, RAF pilot WW2
- Hon Richard Gilbert Hare Head of Russian propaganda, Ministry of Information WW2
- Lieutenant Arthur Rhys-Davids 1916 MC declined scholarship to join the Royal Flying Corps
- Captain John Aidan Liddell 1908 VC MC Royal Flying Corps
- Lieutenant-General Adrian Carton de Wiart 1899 VC left before graduating to fight in Boer War
- Vice-Admiral William Monson 1581 his Naval Tracts describe Navy life
School masters
[edit]- Nick Bevan 1960 rowing coach and headmaster Shiplake School
- Alec Peterson 1926 International Baccalaureate
- John Fulton 1923, Fellow, Chair, British Council
- Robert Birley 1922 Headmaster Eton
- Richard Powell Francis 1879 teacher and first Australian to graduate from Balliol[14]
- George Ferris Whidborne Mortimer 1823 Headmaster, City of London School, Abolitionist
Philosophers
[edit]- Toby Ord (2003) Effective altruism
- Katherine Hawley (1989) Metaphysics
- John Tasioulas (1989) Moral philosophy
- Herman Cappelen (1987) Philosophy of language
- Michael Otsuka (1986) Political philosophy
- Robert Maximilian de Gaynesford (1986) Philosophy of language
- Stephen Mulhall (1984) German philosophy
- Paul W. Franks (1983) Philosophy of language
- Ian Rumfitt (1983) FBA Philosophy of language
- Adrian William Moore (1979) FBA Metaphysics
- Michael Sandel (1975) Rhodes Scholar, Political philosophy
- Timothy Williamson (1974) Logic
- Hilary Lawson (c1973) Metaphysics
- Joseph Raz (1972) Jurisprudence
- William Newton-Smith 1967 Fellow, Philosophy of science
- Arthur Prior 1966 Fellow, Logic
- Kit Fine 1964 Logic
- Sir Anthony Kenny 1964 Master, Philosophy of mind
- Roy Bhaskar 1963 Philosophy of Science
- Sir Neil MacCormick 1963 Fellow, Jurisprudence
- Derek Parfit 1961 Moral philosophy
- Hans Sluga 1960 German philosophy
- Alan Ryan 1959 Political philsophy
- Charles Taylor 1952 Rhodes Scholar, political philosophy
- Alan Montefiore 1948 European philosophy
- John Lucas 1947 Philosophy of mathematics
- Sir Bernard Williams 1947 FBA Moral philosophy
- David Pears 1939 FBA Philosophy of mind
- Ernest Gellner 1942 (started 1943) European philosophy
- Richard Wollheim 1941 Philosophy of mind
- R. M. Hare 1937 Moral philosophy
- Peter Geach 1934 Logic
- Sir Stuart Hampshire 1933 Philosophy of mind
- J. L. Austin 1929 "How to Do Things with Words" 1955
- John Niemeyer Findlay 1924 Rhodes Scholar rational mysticism
- Austin Marsden Farrer 1923 Theologian
- John Macmurray 1913 The self as agent
- Herbert James Paton 1908 FBA German philosophy
- Olaf Stapledon 1905 transhumanist, Last and First Men
- Sir W. D. Ross 1896 moral realist
- Harold Joachim 1886 FBA Coherence theory of truth
- John Alexander Smith 1884 Idealist
- F. C. S. Schiller 1882 FBA pragmatist
- Samuel Alexander 1878 Emergentist
- David George Ritchie 1873 Idealist
- John Cook Wilson 1868 Logic
- Bernard Bosanquet 1867 Idealist
- Richard Lewis Nettleship 1865 Idealism
- William Wallace 1865 German philosophy
- Alfred Barratt 1862 Ethics and science
- Edward Caird (c1857) Master, Idealist
- Thomas Hill Green 1855 Idealist
- Sir William Hamilton 1807 natural realist
- Cheryl Misak
Social and political theorists
[edit]- Graeme Garrard (1990) political thought
- Stephen Macedo (1980) liberalism
- Alex Callinicos (1968) Trotskyist political theorist
- David Miller 1967 social justice
- Robert Putnam 1963 Fulbright Fellow, two-level game theory, "Bowling Alone"
- Steven Lukes FBA 1958 Fellow, sociology
- Norman O. Brown 1932 Freudo-Marxism
- Sir Ernest Barker 1893 FBA political science
- Robert Ranulph Marett 1885 cultural anthropology
Colonial administrators
[edit]- Sir Lionel Barnett Abrahams 1888 Senior civil servant, India Office
- Shyamji Krishna Varma 1879 India
- George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston 1878 viceroy of India
- Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin (c1867) viceroy of India
- Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne 1863 listed as Lord Kerry viceroy of India
- Roger Ludlow 1609 (spelt Ludlowe) US Colonial lawmaker
Politicians
[edit]Currently active
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Members of Parliament
[edit]- Yvette Cooper(Home Secretary)
- Helen Hayes
- Sir Julian Lewis
- Matthew Pennycook
- Yuan Yang (politician)
House of Lords
[edit]- Alan Beith
- Jo Johnson
- Roger Freeman
- Ralph Palmer
- Chris Patten
- Matilda Simon, 3rd Baroness Simon of Wythenshawe (2001)
- Simon Stevens
- Dick Taverne
Deceased members of the House of Lords since 2000
[edit]- James Douglas-Hamilton died 2023
- Peter Brooke died 2023
- Robert Maclennan died 2020
- Patrick Mayhew died 2016
MPs and MEPs who completed service after 2020
[edit]- Damian Green
- Boris Johnson (prime minister)
- David Johnston (British politician)
- Robin Walker
MPs and MEPs who completed service 2001 - 2020
[edit]- David Faber
- Louis Grech (MEP, Malta)
- Charlotte Leslie
- Neil MacCormick (MEP)
- Ian Pearson
- James Purnell
- Rory Stewart
- Charles Tannock (MEP)
- Stephen Twigg
- Kitty Ussher
- Tony Wright
UK politicians active post-world war II
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- John Boyd-Carpenter
- George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk
- Dingle Foot
- Hugh Fraser
- Ian Gilmour
- Bryan Gould
- Grey Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie
- 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
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- 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
- William Wickham 1853
Politicians, statesmen and monarchs in non-UK countries
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- Australia
- Botswana
- Canada
- Germany
- Hong Kong SAR
- Japan
- Kenya
- Norway
- Malaysia
- South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- United States
Theologians and clergy
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- George Abbot
- Mirza Nasir Ahmad
- Archibald Alison 1775
- John Bell
- Lionel Blue
- Thomas Bradwardine
- 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
- Hardwicke Rawnsley (1870) Founder, National Trust
- Michael Sadgrove (1968)
- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
- Bill Sykes
- Archibald Campbell Tait
- Frederick Temple
- William Temple
- Godfrey Thring
- Joseph Wood
- John Wycliffe
- David Young (bishop)
Other
[edit]- John Holmes
- Nigel Sheinwald
- Nada Al-Nashif
- Ngaire Woods
- Nancy-Ann DeParle
- Johnny Acton (1989)
- Cyril George Fox Cartwright[15]
- Sir Nigel Foulkes, Chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority[16]
- Cecil Jackson-Cole
- Richard Jenkyns 1800 Master, educational innovator
- Richard Lambert
- Arnold Lunn
- Hardit Malik
- Ghislaine Maxwell, socialite and convicted child sex trafficker[17]
- Grigor McClelland
- J. Irwin Miller (1931)
- Leif Mills
- Clare Moriarty
- Geoff Mulgan
- Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
- Raj Patel
- Henry Primrose
- Aly Kassam-Remtulla Rhodes Scholar
- Alan Rotherham (1881)
- Warren Rovetch[18]
- Peter Sedgwick
- Richard Sharp
- Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall
- Henry Hawkins Tremayne 1759
- Laurence Whistler (1946)
- Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead (1880)
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
- Avrion Mitchison FRS immunologist[19]
- Colin McGinn
- Lytton Strachey
Balliol Chancellors of Oxford University
[edit]- Richard FitzRalph (1332)
- William de Wilton (1374)
- Thomas Chace (1426)[20]
- 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".[21] The current Master of Balliol is Helen Ghosh.[22]
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)
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