List of people associated with Oriel College, Oxford

A list of notable people affiliated with Oriel College, Oxford University, England, including alumni, academics, provosts and honorary fellows.

Alumni

Academics Richard Ithamar Aaron – D.Phil student, graduated 1928: Welsh philosopher. Donald Ferlys Wilson Baden-Powell – Undergraduate 1917: Geologist and palaeolithic archeologist. Marius Barbeau – Rhodes Scholar 1907–1910: Canadian ethnographer and folklorist. Geoffrey Barraclough – scholar in History 1926–1929. Chichele Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford, 1970–73. Harold Idris Bell – Adam de Brome scholar 1897, British papyrologist (specialising in Roman Egypt) and scholar of Welsh literature. Peter Brunt – Ancient historian. Anthony Collett – author and writer on natural history. Richard A. Epstein – American legal scholar Eric Foner – American historian, Bancroft Prize winner. Jeff Forshaw – Particle physicist, winner of the Maxwell Medal and Prize. James Anthony Froude – Undergraduate 1836 to 1840: English historian and Regius Professor of Modern History, 1892 to 1894. Robert Alfred Cloynes Godwin-Austen – Undergraduate 1826–1830: English geologist, Fellow in 1830. Richard Heydarian – Filipino author and political scientist, recipient of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World award. Sir Francis Knowles, 5th Baronet – Archaeologist J. L. Mackie – Undergraduate 1938 to 1940: Australian Philosopher. James Meade – Undergraduate 1926 to 1930: Economist, Nobel Prize award winner. Edward Thomas Monro – Principal Physician of Bethlem Hospital from 1816. Henry Monro – President of the Medical Psychological Association in 1864–1865. Thomas Monro – Principal Physician of Bedlam Hospital from 1816. Michael Moore – Professor of theoretical physics at the University of Manchester John Nunn – English chess player and mathematician Mark Pattison – Undergraduate 1832: English author and rector of Lincoln College, Oxford. Eduardo Peñalver – American law professor, President-elect of Seattle University, and Dean of Cornell Law School. Baden Powell – Undergraduate 1814 to 1817: Physicist and theologian, father of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout Movement. Paul Preston – Professor in International History at the London School of Economics; historian of modern Spain. Philip Russell, FRS – Director of the third division of the Max Planck Research Group at the Institute of Optics, Information and Photonics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. John Martin Robinson – Historian and author. William David Ross – philosopher, Aristotelian scholar, Provost of Oriel College, Vice Chancellor of Oxford University. Rebecca Saxe – Undergraduate 1997–2000, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT. Hugh Edwin Strickland – Undergraduate 1829: English geologist, ornithologist and systemist. Ronald Syme – New Zealand-born historian, was the pre-eminent classicist of the 20th century. A.J.P. Taylor – Undergraduate 1924 to 1927: Renowned British historian of the 20th century. Alexander Todd – Undergraduate 1931 to 1934: Chemist, Nobel Prize award winner. D. E. R. Watt – Scottish historian and Professor Emeritus at St Andrews University. Ronald Lampman Watts – Canadian academic and the 15th Principal and Vice-chancellor of Queen's University from 1974 until 1984. Miles Weatherall – Physician and research pharmacologist affiliated with London Hospital Medical College and Wellcome Research Laboratories. Gilbert White – Undergraduate 1739 to 1743, Fellow of the college 1744 to 1793. Pioneering naturalist and ornithologist.

Clergy William Allen – Undergraduate 1547, Fellow of the college from 1550 to 1561: Principal of St Mary Hall 1556 to 1561, fellow at University of Douai, Cardinal. Thomas Arundel – Undergraduate 1373: Son of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, with whom he erected the first college chapel.Richards and Shadwell, p. 14 Chancellor of England and Archbishop of Canterbury. Godwin Birchenough – Dean of Ripon Cathedral. Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton – Churchman and translator of one of only two English translations of the Septuagint. Joseph Butler – Undergraduate 1715 to 1718, graduate until 1733: Bishop of Bristol and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral 1740, Bishop of Durham 1750. David Chillingworth – Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane 2005– Nigel Cornwall – Bishop of Borneo 1949–1962. Maxwell Craig – Minister of the Church of Scotland and General Secretary of Action of Churches Together in Scotland 1990–1999. Harold de Soysa – Bishop of Colombo 1964–1971. Frank Tracy Griswold – Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Gerald Edgcumbe Hadow – English Christian missionary to East Africa in the mid-twentieth century. Renn Hampden – Bampton lecturer in 1832, principal of St Mary Hall 1833, Bishop of Hereford 1847. David Hand – Bishop Coadjutor of New Guinea 1950–1963, Archbishop of Papua New Guinea 1977–1983 James Hannington – Undergraduate 1868 to 1873: Missionary bishop. Michael Ipgrave – Bishop of Lichfield. George Wyndham Kennion – Anglican bishop of Adelaide and Bath and Wells. Edward King – Bishop of Lincoln 1885 to 1910. Edward Monro-High Church priest and writer. Thomas Mozley – English clergyman and writer. Reginald Pecock – Bishop of Chichester Iain Torrance – President of Princeton Theological Seminary and a former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Vernon White – MLitt in Theology 1980, now principal of STETS and Canon of Winchester Samuel Wilberforce – Undergraduate 1823 to 1826: Bishop of Oxford and Winchester. Opposed Darwin's theory of evolution in a famous debate with biologist Thomas Huxley.

Politicians

Anthony Barber MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1970 Alexander Hugh Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh – Scottish politician and statesman, Minister for Scotland 1895 to 1903. James Brudenell, 5th Earl of Cardigan – Member of Parliament and later peer. Donald Cameron – Member of the Scottish Parliament since 2016. Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim – Irish nobleman and politician. George Coldstream – Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office Peter Emery – Member of Parliament from 1959 to 2001, appointed Privy Counsellor in 1993. William Grant – Scottish MP (1955 to 1962) and judge. Lord Justice Clerk 1962 to 1972. George Wellesley Hamilton – Ontario political figure, Canadian Conservative MP from 1871 to 1874. William Gerard Hamilton – English Statesman, Chief Secretary for Ireland 1761 to 1764. Daniel Hannan – British politician and Conservative MEP (1999 to 2020). James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury – Foreign Secretary 1852 and 1858 to 1859, Lord Privy Seal 1866 to 1868 and 1874 to 1876. Alan Haselhurst – British politician – Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons 1997 to 2010, later a life peer. Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea – English statesman. Angus Maude – Conservative party MP from 1963 to 1983, Paymaster General from 1979 until 1981. Paul Murphy – Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (2002 to 2005) and for Wales (2008 to 2009), later a life peer. Wilfrid Normand, Baron Normand – Scottish politician and judge. Phillip Oppenheim – MP from 1983 to 1997, businessman, credited for introducing Mojitos to the UK. Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull – Member of parliament (1601) and hereditary peer. Cecil Rhodes – Undergraduate 1873, 1876 to 1878, 1881: Politician, businessman and the effective founder of the state of Rhodesia. Andrew Robathan – British Conservative politician, and Member of Parliament for Blaby. Thomas Sotheron-Estcourt – British politician, Home Secretary 1859. John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough – Undergraduate 1840: Lord President of the Council 1867; grandfather of Sir Winston Churchill. Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol – Lord Chancellor 1733 to 1737. Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot – Industrialist, Liberal Member of Parliament for Glamorgan for sixty years. William Vesey-FitzGerald – British politician, Governor of Bombay 1867 to 1872 and Member of Parliament for Horsham. Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk – Reich Minister of Finance 1932 to 1945, Leading Minister and de facto Chancellor of Germany 1945. Charles Wegg-Prosser – British politician and solicitor

Civil servants Stewart Crawford – diplomat Robert Chalmers, 1st Baron Chalmers – BA 1881. Governor of Ceylon 1913–1915 Lebrecht Wilhelm Fifi Hesse – First Black African Rhodes Scholar, former Director General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation Hugh Trevor Lambrick – archaeologist, historian and administrator David Manning – British Ambassador to the United States, Hon. Fellow. Herman Merivale – English civil servant and author. Peter Neyroud – chief executive officer (Designate) for the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA), and former Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police. Cranley Onslow – MI6 field agent and privy counsellor. Fabian Picardo – Chief Minister of Gibraltar Oswald Rayner – British intelligence officer Frederic Rogers, 1st Baron Blachford – British civil servant. Henry Unton – English diplomat, ambassador to Henry IV of France.

Literary and performing artists Jon Bentley – British journalist and television presenter. Norman Cameron – poet. Rosaline Elbay – actor and writer. Edmund Fellowes – Undergraduate 1889 to 1892: Music editor and author on 16th and 17th century English music. David Giles – British television director. Os Guinness – Writer and social critic living in McLean, Virginia. Peter Harness – British dramatist and screenwriter. Christopher Hibbert – English writer and popular historian and biographer. Michael Hoffman – Undergraduate 1979: Film director Thomas Hughes – Undergraduate 1841 to 1845: Author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, founder member of the Christian Socialists. Richard Hughes – British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays. Francis Kynaston – Undergraduate 1601: English courtier and poet. Matt Lacey – actor and comedian. James Leasor – Undergraduate 1946 to 1948: English writer and popular historian. Eugene Lee-Hamilton – Late-Victorian English poet. Philip Napier Miles – 1865–1935 – composer and philanthropist. Martin Mills – British Music Industry Executive. Nick Newman – cartoonist and scriptwriter Adam Raphael – journalist. Rachel Riley – television presenter. Eric Schlosser – American journalist and author. W. C. Sellar & R. J. Yeatman – Undergraduates 1919 to 1922: Humorists, authors of 1066 and All That. William Seward, matriculated 1764, anecdotist and conversationalist Richard Simpson – British Roman Catholic writer and literary scholar. J. I. M. Stewart – Scottish author whose pen name was Michael Innes. Joseph Warton – English academic and literary critic. Nigel Williams – novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Sandy Wilson – British lyricist and composer of The Boy Friend (1954). Michael Wood – Popular British historian, broadcaster and television presenter. Camilla Wright – Editor of Popbitch David Wright – Author and poet.

Lawyers, judges and statesmen

Kwamena Bentsi-Enchill – judge and academic; justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana (1971–1972) Geoffrey Bindman – human rights lawyer. Alexander Croke – British judge, colonial administrator and author influential in Nova Scotia of the early 19th century. Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron – Undergraduate 1710 to July 1713: friend and patron of George Washington. Sir Francis Ferris QC (1932–2018) – High Court Judge (Chancery Division). George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen – British statesman and businessman. John Holt – Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 1689 to 1710. William Prynne – Graduated BA 1621; lawyer, author, polemicist. Walter Raleigh – Undergraduate 1572 to 1574: Courtier, statesman, scientist, writer, poet, spy, and explorer. A. N. Ray – Chief Justice of India (1973–77). Studied modern history. William Scroggs – Undergraduate 1639 to c.1640: Lord Chief Justice over the Popish Plot.

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