List of Oriel College people

Walter Raleigh, by Nicholas Hilliard, c.1585.

This is an incomplete list of notable people affiliated with Oriel College, Oxford University, England, including former students, academics, provosts and honorary fellows.

Former students

• Richard Ithamar Aaron - D.Phil student, graduated 1928: Welsh philosopher.
• 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.
• Sir David Arculus - English businessman.
• Thomas Arundel - Undergraduate 1373: Son of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, with whom he erected the first college chapel.^[1] Chancellor of England and Archbishop of Canterbury. Opposed Richard II and crowned Henry of Bolingbroke as Henry IV.
• 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 1926-29. Chichele Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford, 1970–73.
• Sir Harold Idris Bell - Adam de Brome scholar 1897: CB OBE, British papyrologist (specialising in Roman Egypt) and scholar of Welsh literature.
• Jon Bentley - British journalist and television presenter.
• Sir Geoffrey Bindman, human rights lawyer
• Godwin Birchenough - Dean of Ripon Cathedral.
• Bernard Bosanquet - Undergraduate 1896 to 1899: Triple Blues, English test cricketer, inventor of the googly.
• Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton - Churchman and translator of one of only two English translations of the Septuagint.

Charles Wreford Brown

• Charles Wreford Brown - Captained the English national football team several times between 1894 and 1895, credited with inventing the word soccer.
• Alexander Hugh Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh - Scottish politician and statesman
• James Brudenell, 5th Earl of Cardigan - Graduated 1747 with a Bachelor of Arts: Deputy Cofferer to the Household, Master of Robes to the Prince of Wales, Keeper of the Privy Purse, Constable of Windsor Castle and Steward of Windsor.
• Beau Brummell - Undergraduate 1794: Dandy and arbiter of fashion.
• Peter Brunt - Ancient historian.
• Joseph Butler - Undergraduate 1715 to 1718, graduate until 1733: Bishop of Bristol and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral 1740, Bishop of Durham 1750.
• Norman Cameron - poet
• Robert Chalmers, 1st Baron Chalmers - BA 1881. Governor of Ceylon 1913-1915
• Clive Cheesman - Undergraduate: Richmond Herald 2010-current
• David Chillingworth - Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane 2005-
• Baron Clements - Irish nobleman and politician.
• Sir George Coldstream, Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office
• Anthony Collett - author and writer on natural history.
• Nigel Cornwall - Bishop of Borneo 1949-1962.
• Sir Geoffrey Sandford Cox - former editor and chief executive of ITN and a founder of News at Ten.
• Sir Stewart Crawford - diplomat.
• Sir Alexander Croke - British judge, colonial administrator and author influential in Nova Scotia of the early nineteenth century.
• Sir James Ralph Darling OBE - Headmaster of Geelong Grammar School, and Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission.
• Peter Emery - Member of Parliament continuously for Reading, Honiton, and East Devon from 1959 to 2001, appointed Privy Counsellor in 1993.
• Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron - Undergraduate 1710 to July 1713: friend and patron of George Washington.
• Edmund Fellowes - Undergraduate 1889 to 1892: Music editor and author on 16th and 17th English music.
• William Robert Seymour Vesey Fitzgerald - Governor of Bombay 1867 to 1872, privy counsellor.
• Eric Foner - American historian, Bancroft Prize winner.
• James Anthony Froude - Undergraduate 1836 to 1840: English historian and Regius Professor of Modern History, 1892 to 1894.
• David Giles - British television director.
• Robert Alfred Cloynes Godwin-Austen - Undergraduate 1826-1830: English geologist.
• George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen - British statesman and business man.
• William Grant - Scottish politician and judge.
• Chris Green - British railway manager.
• Frank Tracy Griswold - Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
• Os Guinness - Writer and social critic living in McLean, Virginia.
• Gerald Edgcumbe Hadow - English Christian missionary to East Africa in the mid-twentieth century.
• George Wellesley Hamilton - Ontario political figure, Prescott in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Conservative member from 1871 to 1874.
• William Gerard Hamilton - English Statesman, Chief Secretary for Ireland 1761 to 1764.
• Renn Dickson Hampden - Bampton lecturer in 1832, principal of St Mary Hall 1833, Bishop of Hereford 1847.
• David Hand - Bishop Coadjutor of New Guinea 1950-63, Archbishop of Papua New Guinea 1977-83
• Charles Handy - Management educator. Honorary Fellow.
• James Hannington - Undergraduate 1868 to 1873: Missionary bishop.
• Daniel Hannan - British politician, and Member of the European Parliament for the South East England region for the Conservative Party
• Peter Harness - British dramatist and screenwriter.
• 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 since 1997
• Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea - English statesman.
• Christopher Hibbert - English writer and popular historian and biographer.
• Michael Hoffman - Undergraduate 1979: Film director
• John Holt - Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 1689 to 1710.
• 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.
• George Wyndham Kennion - Anglican bishop of Adelaide and Bath and Wells.
• Edward King (English bishop) - Bishop of Lincoln 1885 to 1910.
• Sir Francis Kynaston - Undergraduate 1601: English courtier and poet.
• Eugene Lee-Hamilton - Late-Victorian English poet.
• Edward Leigh, 5th Baron Leigh - Undergraduate 1761 to 1764: High Steward of Oxford University and benefactor.
• J. L. Mackie - Undergraduate 1938 to 1940: Australian Philosopher.
• David Manning - KCMG CVO, British Ambassador to the United States.
• Baron Maude of Stratford-upon-Avon - Conservative Party politician and British cabinet member from 1979 until 1981.
• James Meade - Undergraduate 1926 to 1930: Economist, Nobel Prize award winner.
• Jim Mellon - Undergraduate and Honorary Fellow: Economist, writer and founder of several companies.
• Herman Merivale - English civil servant and author.
• Philip Napier Miles - 1865-1935 - composer and philanthropist.
• Martin Mills - British Music Industry Executive.
• Edward Thomas Monro - Principle Physician of Bethlem Hospital from 1816.
• Henry Monro - President of the Medical Psychological Association in 1864-65.
• Thomas Monro - Principal Physician of Bedlam Hospital from 1816.
• Thomas Mozley - English clergyman and writer.
• Paul Murphy - Secretary of State for Wales and former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
• Peter Neyroud - Chief Executive Officer (Designate) for the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA), and former Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police.
• Baron Normand of Aberdour - Scottish politician and judge.
• John Nunn - English chess player and mathematician
• Lord Onslow of Woking - MI6 field agent and privy counsellor.
• Phillip Oppenheim - Undergraduate 1974 to 1977. Politician and business guru.
• Mark Pattison - Undergraduate 1832: English author and rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.
• Reginald Pecock - Bishop of Chichester
• Robert Pierrepont - Undergraduate 1596 to 1599: Member of parliament, became Baron Pierrepont and Viscount Newark in 1627, and Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull in 1628.
• Paul Preston - Professor in International History at the London School of Economics; historian of modern Spain.
• William Prynne - Graduated BA 1621; lawyer, author, polemicist.
• Sir Walter Raleigh - Undergraduate 1572 to 1574: Courtier, statesman, scientist, writer, poet, spy, and explorer.
• Adam Raphael, journalist
• A N Ray - Chief Justice of India (1973-7). Studied modern history
• Peter Reed - British rower and World Champion.

Cecil Rhodes

• Cecil Rhodes - Undergraduate 1873, 1876 to 1878, 1881: Politician, businessman and the effective founder of the state of Rhodesia.
• Rachel Riley - television presenter.
• Andrew Robathan - British Conservative politician, and Member of Parliament for Blaby.
• John Martin Robinson - Historian and author.
• Frederic Rogers, 1st Baron Blachford - British civil servant.
• Philip St. John 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.
• Eric Schlosser - American journalist and author.
• Sir William Scroggs - Undergraduate 1639 to c.1640: Lord Chief Justice over the Popish Plot
• 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.
• 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.
• J. I. M. Stewart - Scottish author whose pen name was Michael Innes.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Iain Torrance - President of Princeton Theological Seminary and a former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
• Henry Unton - English diplomat, ambassador to Henry IV of France.
• Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey-FitzGerald - British politician and Member of Parliament for Horsham.
• Plum Warner - Played first-class cricket for Oxford University, Middlesex and England.
• Joseph Warton - English academic and literary critic.
• Donald Cameron Watt - Professor in International History at the London School of Economics.
• Donald Elmslie Robertson Watt FRSE - 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.
• Gilbert White - Undergraduate 1739 to 1743, Fellow of the college 1744 to 1793. Pioneering naturalist and ornithologist.
• 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.
• 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.
• David Wright - Author and poet.

See also Former students of Oriel College.

Former Fellows and Lecturers

• Matthew Arnold - Elected 28 March 1845, perpetual Fellow 17 April 1846, vacated (due to marriage) 6 April 1852: Poet and Critic, Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1857 to 1867
• Thomas Arnold - Elected 31 March 1815, perpetual Fellow 20 July 1816, year of grace (due to marriage) 12 August 1820: Headmaster of Rugby School 1828 to 1841 and Regius Professor of Modern History from 1841 to 1842.
• Robert Beddard - Fellow to 2006: British historian.
• Thomas Edward Brown - Elected 21 April 1854, perpetual Fellow 13 April 1855, year of grace (due to marriage) 24 June 1857: Poet.

James Bryce; Member of Parliament for Aberdeen South 1885-1907

• James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce - Elected 25 April 1862, perpetual Fellow 6 April 1863, resigned June 1893, honorary fellow 12 October 1894: British jurist, historian and politician.
• John William Burgon - Elected 17 April 1846, perpetual Fellow 5 April 1847: Dean of Chichester Cathedral.
• Jeremy Catto - Fellow to 2006: British historian.
• Thomas Kelly Cheyne - Fellow 1885 to 1905: English Biblical critic.
• Richard William Church - Fellow 1838, Dean of St Paul's 1871-90.
• Arthur Hugh Clough - Elected 1 April 1842, perpetual Fellow 21 April 1843: English poet.
• Sir Zelman Cowen - Fellow 1947 to 1950: 19th Governor-General of Australia.
• Richard Cross - Fellow, Professor of Medieval Theology and Tutor in Theology.
• Henry William Carless Davis - Fellow 1925 to 1928: British historian, editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and Regius Professor of Modern History.
• George Anthony Denison - Elected 11 April 1828, perpetual Fellow 24 April 1829: English churchman, curate of Cuddesdon.
• James Fraser - Elected 24 April 1840, perpetual Fellow 1841, vacated fellowship 20 December 1861: Anglican Bishop of Manchester 1870 to 1885.
• Richard Hurrell Froude - Early leader of the Oxford Movement.
• Vivian Hunter Galbraith - Fellow of the British Academy and Oxford Regius Professor of Modern History.
• Sir Alexander Grant, 10th Baronet - Elected 13 April 1849, perpetual Fellow 1 April 1850, vacated (married) 2 June 1860: British educationalist and Principal of the University of Edinburgh
• Simon Hornblower - Fellow until 1997, since when Professor of Classics and Grote Professor of Ancient History University College London
• Michael Eliot Howard - Fellow and Regius Professor of Modern History, 1980 to 1989
• John Keble - Fellow 1811 to 1835: One of the leaders of the Oxford Movement, Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1831 to 1841, gave his name to Keble College in 1870.
• Raymond Klibansky - Honorary Fellow, Canadian Philosopher.
• Richard Mant - Fellow 1798: English churchman and writer.
• John Henry Newman - Major figure in the Oxford Movement.
• Frederick York Powell - Fellow and Regius Professor of Modern History, 1894 to 1904
• Edward Bouverie Pusey - One of the leaders of the Oxford Movement.
• Richard Robinson - Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy 1946–69, Author of An Atheists Values
• William Young Sellar - Fellow: Scottish classical scholar.
• John Robinson - Fellow: English diplomat, Bishop of Bristol and London.
• John W C Wand - Fellow and Dean from 1925: English born Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane, Australia.
• Richard Whately - Undergraduate, Fellow 1811: English logician, economist and theological writer, Archbishop of Dublin
• John Wordsworth - Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture, Bishop of Salisbury.

Provosts

• 1326 to 1332: Adam de Brome - Almoner to Edward II and founder of college.
• 1332 to 1348: William de Leverton
• 1348 to 1349: William de Hawkesworth - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
• 1349 to 1373: William de Daventre
• 1373 to 1385: John de Colyntre
• 1385 to 1394: John de Middleton
• 1394 to 1402: John de Maldon
• 1402 to 1414: John Possell
• 1414 to 1415: John Rote
• 1415 to 1417: William Corffe
• 1417 to 1421: Thomas Leyntwardyn
• 1421 to 1422: Henry Kayle
• 1424 to 1427: Nicholas Herry
• 1428 to 1435: John Carpenter
• 1435 to 1446: Walter Lyhert
• 1446 to 1449: John Hals
• 1449 to 1476: Henry Sampson
• 1476 to 1479: Thomas Hawkyns
• 1479 to 1492: John Taylor
• 1493 to 1507: Thomas Cornysh
• 1507 to 1516: Edmund Wylsford
• 1516 to 1530: James More
• 1530 to 1538: Thomas Ware
• 1538 to 1540: Henry Mynne
• 1540 to 1550: William Haynes
• 1550 to 1565: John Smyth
• 1565 to 1566: Roger Marbeck - Chief physician to Elizabeth I.
• 1566 to 1574: John Belly
• 1574 to 1618: Antony Blencowe
• 1618 to 1621: William Lewis
• 1621 to 1644: John Tolson
• 1644 to 1653: John Saunders
• 1653 to 1691: Robert Say
• 1691 to 1708: George Royse
• 1709 to 1727: George Carter
• 1727 to 1757: Walter Hodges
• 1757 to 1768: Chardin Musgrave
• 1768 to 1781: John Clarke
• 1781 to 1814: John Eveleigh
• 1814 to 1828: Edward Copleston - Oxford Professor of Poetry 1802 to 1812, Bishop of Llandaff and Dean of St Paul's 1828 to 1849.
• 1828 to 1882: Edward Hawkins
• 1882 to 1905: David Binning Monro - Scottish Homeric scholar.
• 1905 to 1914: Charles Lancelot Shadwell
• 1914 to 1930: Lancelot Ridley Phelps
• 1930 to 1947: Sir David Ross - Scottish philosopher, known for work in ethics.
• 1947 to 1957: Sir George Clark - British historian.
• 1957 to 1980: Kenneth Turpin - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1966 to 1969.
• 1980 to 1981: Baron Swann - molecular and cell biologist, Chairman of the BBC from 1973 to 1980, Principal of Edinburgh University 1973 to 1980, and Chancellor of the University of York 1979 to 1990.
• 1982 to 1990: Sir Zelman Cowen - former Governor-General of Australia
• 1990 to 2003: Ernest Nicholson - former Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture
• 2003 (current): Sir Derek Morris - former Chairman of the Competition Commission

Fellows and Lecturers

Fellows, ordered by seniority of fellowship, oldest first;

• Graham Vincent-Smith - Philip and Pauline Harris Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics. Emeritus.
• Gordon MacPherson - Reader in Experimental Pathology, Turnbull Fellow and Tutor in Medicine, Senior Tutor. Emeritus.
• Glenn Black - Tutor in English, Vice-Provost
• David Charles - Colin Prestige Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy
• Richard Tur - Benn Fellow and Tutor in Law
• Mark Philp - Tutor in Politics
• Derek Gray - Professor of Experimental Surgery, Honorary Consultant in Transplantation
• David Barlow - Nuffield Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
• John Barton - Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture
• Andrew Boothroyd - Reader in Physics, Rhodes Fellow and Tutor in Physics, Tutor for Admissions
• Michael Spivey - Misys and Andersen Fellow, Tutor in Computer Science, and Dean of Degrees
• Annette Volfing - Knight Fellow and Tutor in Modern Languages (German)
• David Hodgson - Todd Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry
• Lynne Cox - George Moody Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry
• Douglas Hamilton - Emmot Fellow and Tutor in Engineering Science
• Robert Evans - Regius Professor of Modern History
• Teresa Morgan - William and Nancy Bissell Turpin Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Senior Dean
• Pedro Ferreira - Reader and Tutor in Physics
• Xenia de la Ossa - Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics
• Brian Leftow - Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion
• Oliver Pooley - Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy
• Bruno Currie - Monro Fellow and Tutor in Classics
• Daniel Butt - Fellow and Tutor in Politics
• John Huber - Fellow and Tutor in Engineering
• Richard Scholar - Fellow and Tutor in Modern Languages (French)
• Curtis Mark - Development Directot, Oriel College Development Trust
• Celine Rochon - Fellow and Tutor in Finance
• Wilfrid Stephenson - Treasurer and Bursar
• Yadvinder Malhi - Professor of Ecosystem Science
• Kristine Krug - Senior Research Fellow
• Ian Forest - Fellow and Tutor in History
• Christopher Bowdler - Fellow and Tutor in Economics
• Juliane Kerhecker - Tutor in Classics
• Michael Devereux - Professor of Business Taxation
• John Armour - Lovells Professor of Law and Finance

Lecturers, ordered alphabetically;

• Mark Almond (Modern History)
• Professor Christopher Ashley (Medicine – Physiology)
• Dr Hugh Cartwright (Chemistry)
• Dr Juan-Carlos Conde (Modern Languages - Spanish)
• Dr Garret Cotter (Physics)
• Dr Max Crispin (Biochemistry)
• Dr Julie Curtis (Modern Languages – Russian)
• Mr Leif Dixon (Modern History)
• Professor Clive Ellory (Medicine – Physiology)
• Dr Paul Griffiths (Psychology)
• The Revd Dr Mark Harris (Theology)
• Professor David Hills (Engineering Science)
• Dr Anna Holland (Modern Languages - French)
• Ms Philippa Iley (Mathematics)
• Dr Katrin Kohl (Modern Languages – German)
• Dr Pamela Lear (Medicine – Morphology)
• Dr David Maw (Music)
• Dr Robert McHenry (Psychology)
• Dr James Methven (English)
• Ms Elizabeth Nash (Modern languages – French)
• Ms Madhavi Nevader (Theology)
• Mr Clive Newton (Law)
• Mr JT Paasch (Theology)
• Dr Elinor Payne (Modern Languages - Linguistics)
• Ms Nabila Ramdani (Modern Languages - French)
• Dr Jan Schnupp (Medicine – Neurophysiology)
• Dr Simon Skinner (Modern History)
• Dr Martin Speight (Biology)
• Dr Giuseppe Stellardi (Modern Languages – Italian)
• Dr Marion Turner (English)
• Dr Ian Watson (Modern Languages – Linguistics)
• Dr Mark Whittow (Modern History)
• Ms Almuth Wietholz (Modern Languages – German)
• Dr Jeanne Wilson (Physics)

See also Fellows of Oriel College

Honorary Fellows

Francesco Cossiga

The following is a partial list of former and current Honorary Fellows, where not previously mentioned in any of the above sections.

• Anthony Barber, Baron Barber - Privy Councillor, British Conservative politician, member of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
• James Barr - British Old Testament scholar.
• Francesco Cossiga - Italian politician and former President of the Italian Republic, professor of law at University of Sassari.
• Sir John Elliott - Eminent English historian and former Regius Professor of Modern History.
• Norman Willis - Former General Secretary of the TUC and President of the European Trade Union Confederation.

See also Fellows of Oriel College

References

• Oxford University Calendar 2005-2006 (2005) — Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-928370-2. Reference for honorary fellows.
• Rannie, David, Oriel College (1900) — published by F. E. Robinson & Co. London (part of the University of Oxford College Histories series).
• Salter H. E. and Lobel, Mary D. (editors), The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, Volume III: The University of Oxford — Oxford University Press VCH series, (1954), p. 119-129 ISBN 0-7129-1064-6.
• "Oriel People". Oriel College website. http://www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/content/371/academic-staff. Retrieved 2008-12-07.  Reference for current staff.
• "Records of the Provosts of Oriel College" (DOC). Oriel College website - Archives of Oriel College.. http://www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/images/File/Archive%20Docs/PRO.doc. Retrieved 2007-04-21.  Reference for provosts.
• Richards, George Chatteron and Shadwell, Charles Lancelot, The Provosts and Fellows of Oriel College Oxford (1922) — Oxford Basil Blackwell. Reference for election, award and vacation dates of former Fellows.

Notes

1. ^ Richards and Shadwell, p. 14