List of Honorary Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford

The Governing Body of Jesus College, Oxford (one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford) has the ability to elect "distinguished persons" to Honorary Fellowships.Statute IV "The Fellows", clause 23 "Honorary Fellowships"] Under the current statutes of the college, Honorary Fellows cannot vote at meetings of the Governing Body and do not receive financial reward. They can be called upon, however, to help make recommendations as part of a committee where it is proposed to dismiss members of academic staff as redundant, or to dismiss or discipline members of academic staff for reasons for performance or behaviour, or to dismiss the Principal from office. [Statute V "The Academic Staff", clauses 11, 16, 29 and 42]

In total, eighty-two people have been elected as Honorary Fellows. All but one – the journalist and broadcaster Francine Stock – have been men. Three former Principals of the College (John Christie, Sir John Habakkuk and Sir Peter North) have been elected Honorary Fellows on retirement – the other Principals of the college since Honorary Fellowships were introduced (Ernest Hardy, Alfred Hazel and Sir Frederick Ogilvie) died in office. Thirteen Honorary Fellows have been former Fellows of the college, some (for example, Ellis Evans, Jesus Professor of Celtic) being elected on retirement, some (for example, Sir Goronwy Edwards) when resigning their fellowship to take up an academic post elsewhere and some (for example, Robert Steel) being elected many years after leaving, to mark their later achievements. Of the other Honorary Fellows, sixty-four were Old Members of the college (six of these being Old Members and former Fellows) and one (Arthur Jolliffe) had lectured at the college without being a Fellow.

The remaining seven Honorary Fellows had no previous academic connection with the college before their election. Jesus College has had strong links with Wales since its establishment in 1571, and many of these Honorary Fellows have been distinguished Welshmen. [cite web | url = http://www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/welcome/wales.php | title = Jesus College and Wales | accessdate = 2008-10-07 | author = Jesus College, Oxford | date = 13 February 2007] For example, the Welsh businessman Sir Alfred Jones was elected in 1902 and the Welsh judge Sir Samuel Evans, President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court, was elected in 1918. The Welsh politician David Lloyd George was elected to an Honorary Fellowship in 1910 when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer. He wrote to Sir John Rhys, the Principal at the time, to thank the college for the honour, saying:

The first three Honorary Fellows, all former students of the college, were elected in October 1877: John Rhys, the first Jesus Professor of Celtic who was later an Offical Fellow (1881–1895) and Principal (1895–1915); the historian John Richard Green, and the poet Lewis Morris.Baker, "VCH"] Honorary Fellows have been elected in every decade since then, although the number elected has varied: only two were elected in the 1880s, the 1900s and the 1920s, whereas twelve were elected in the 1960s and twenty-one in the 1990s. The college noted in 1998 that the number of Honorary Fellows of the college was markedly below the average of other Oxford colleges and it adopted a more methodical approach to increase numbers. [cite journal|year=1998/1999|title=Fellows' News| journal=JCR|pages=12|last=De'Ath|first=John] Seven Honorary Fellows were elected that year, followed by another five in 1999. A further seven have been elected since then, the most recent election (of William Boyd, Keith Burnett and Francine Stock) taking place in 2007. The college's Honorary Fellows have included two Old Members who later became Prime Minister of their respective countries: Norman Washington Manley, who studied at Jesus College as a Rhodes Scholar and who was Chief Minister of Jamaica from 1955 to 1962, and Harold Wilson, who was twice British Prime Minister (1964–1970 and 1974–1976). The longest-serving Honorary Fellow is currently Anatole Abragam, who was elected in 1976.

Honorary Fellows

Key:
*F = A former Fellow of the college, included on the list of Principals and Fellows
*L = A college lecturer: Joliffe taught students at Jesus College, but he was not one of the Fellows
*OM = Old Member of the college, included on the list of alumni
*P = Principal, also included on the list of Principals and FellowsA dash denotes that the person had no previous academic link with the college.

References

General

;College publications
*cite web|url=http://home.jesus.ox.ac.uk/gov/statutes.pdf/attachment_download/file |title= College Statutes| format=pdf|publisher=Jesus College, Oxford|accessdate=2008-07-24
*"The Jesus College Record" – annual publication. Cited in references as: "JCR"

;Histories of the College
*Hardy, E. G., "Jesus College" (1899) F. E. Robinson & Co., London. (Available online at [http://www.archive.org/details/jesuscollege00hardrich www.archive.org] .) Cited in references as: Hardy
*Baker, J. N. L., [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63887 "Jesus College"] , in " The Victoria History of the County of Oxford Volume III – The University of Oxford" (1954) University of London Institute of Historical Research. Part of the Victoria County History series. Cited in references as: Baker, "VCH"
*Baker, J. N. L., "Jesus College, Oxford 1571–1971" (1971) Oxonian Press Ltd, Oxford (ISBN 0950216402). Cited in references as: Baker, "Jesus College"

;Biographical dictionaries
*Oxford Dictionary of National Biography – [http://www.oxforddnb.com subscription access] (Oxford University Press). Cited in references as: "ODNB"
* [http://wbo.llgc.org.uk/en/index.html Welsh Biography Online] (The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion of London and National Library of Wales). Cited in references as: "WBO"

;Other reference works
*Foster, Joseph, "Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1714" and "Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886" (both 1891–1892) (reprint ISBN 978-1855068438). Cited in references as: Foster
*Who's Who – [http://www.ukwhoswho.com subscription access] (January 2008) A&C Black (Publishers) Ltd (online edition published by Oxford University Press). Cited in references as: "Who's Who"
*Who Was Who – [http://www.ukwhoswho.com subscription access] (January 2008) A&C Black (Publishers) Ltd (online edition published by Oxford University Press). Cited in references as: "Who Was Who"

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