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. More than one in twenty Balliol alumni are listed in Who's Who.[citation needed] 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
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- 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
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- Timothy Barnes (1960)
- John Beazley (1903)
- James H. Billington (1950)
- Daniel J. Boorstin (1934)
- Manning Clark (1938)
- 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
- 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
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- 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
- Simon Walsh, Barrister and Alderman of the City of London
- William Wickham (1831–1897)
Authors and artists
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- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- Bill Readings (1985)
- Robert Scott
- Samuel Shem (Stephen Bergman) (1966)
- Nevil Shute
- Robert Southey
- Olaf Stapledon
- George Steiner (1950)
- Julian Sturgis
- Henry Sweet (1869)
- John Addington Symonds
- Laurence Whistler (1946)
Mathematicians, scientists and technologists
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- George Alberti
- 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)
- Christopher John Nuttall (1989)Cite error: A
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- 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".[6] 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.[7]
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.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)(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)
- ^ Statute II "The Master", clause 1
- ^ "Election of New Master". Balliol College, Oxford. 18 March 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2011.