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]Media
[edit]Newspaper editors
[edit]| Image | Name | Join date |
Publication | Comments | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Martin Kettle | 1967 | The Guardian | Assisant Editor and columnist Marxist, as were both parents |
[5]: 297 | |
| Sir Richard Lambert | 1963 | The Financial Times | Editor FT director-general of the CBI chancellor of the University of Warwick chairman of the board of the British Museum member, Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England |
[6]: 385 | |
| Andrew Knight | 1958 | The Economist Daily Telegraph |
Director of News Corporation Director of BSkyB Chairman of J. Rothschild Capital Management |
[6]: 327 | |
| Geoffrey Cannon | 1958 | Radio Times Sunday Times |
"Dieting Makes you Fat" 1982 |
[6]: 323 | |
| Baron William Rees-Mogg | 1945 | The Times | member of the BBC's Board of Governors chairman of the Arts Council |
[6]: 185 | |
| David Astor | 1931 | DNG The Observer |
Companion of Honour Supported left wing causes - Amnesty International and the African National Congress Buried alongside George Orwell |
[6]: 73 | |
| Henry Vincent Hodson | 1925 | The Sunday Times | Fellow of All Souls Director, Empire Division, Ministry of Information WW2 Reforms Commissioner, Government of India Head of Non-Munitions, at the Ministry of Productionwrote leader advocating legalisation of homosexuality |
[6]: 40 |
Political journalists
[edit]| Image | Name | Join date |
Field of work | Comments | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan Sacerdoti | 1998 | broadcaster, journalist, and TV producer | campaigner against antisemitism | [5]: 473 | |
| Gary Gibbon | 1984 | Channel 4 | political editor of Channel 4 News | [5]: 190 | |
| George Stephanopoulos | 1984 | White House communications director under Bill Clinton | Rhodes Scholar Co-anchor of Good Morning America Memoir "All Too Human: A Political Education" 1999 |
[5]: 516 | |
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Robert Peston | 1979 | ITV Political editor | BBC then ITV | [5]: 426 |
| E. J. Dionne | 1973 | op-ed columnist Washington Post |
Rhodes Scholar Fellow, Brookings Institution |
[5]: 516 | |
| David Aaronovitch | 1972 | DNG columnist President, National Union of Students |
Eurocommunist TV producer, radio presenter, Orwell Prize winner |
[5]: 1 | |
| Charles Krauthammer | 1970 | Psychiatrist Director of psychiatric research under President Carter US Conservative columnist |
Pulitzer Prize winner chess addict |
[5]: 307 | |
| Christopher Hitchens | 1967 | Atlantic Vanity Fair |
new atheist articulate speaker on numerous TV shows criticising religion Wrote book and documentary criticising Mother Theresa |
[5]: 245 | |
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Peter Snow | 1958 | Current affairs TV presenter | General Election TV analyst | [5]: 307 |
| Hugo Young | 1958 | The Guardian | Harkness Fellow Inside Politics colummn |
[5]: 603 | |
| Peter Usborne | 1958 | Private Eye co-founder |
founder Usborne publishers | [5]: 554 |
Radio, television and film
[edit]| Image | Name | Join date |
Field of work | Productions | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chadwick Boseman | 1998 | Summer school Superhero actor (US) |
Black Panther | [7] | |
| Aidan Hartley | 1984 | Documentary maker | Unreported World, Dispatches for C4 Kenyan wildlife conservationist and cattle farmer "Wildlife" column on The Spectator |
[5]: 229 | |
| Vanessa Engle | 1981 | Documentary maker | Lefties | [5]: 155 | |
| Michael Winterbottom | 1979 | Film Director | 24 Hour Party People In This World |
[5]: 591 | |
| Bill Heine | 1967 | Radio Oxford broadcaster | Refounded the Penultimate Picture Palace 1976. Commissioned the Headington Shark on his property. | [5]: 236 | |
| John Schlesinger | 1947 | Film director | Midnight Cowboy (1969). Won Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture: Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), and The Next Best Thing (1999) | [5]: 480 | |
| Roger Mayne | 1947 | Photographer | Southam Street | [5]: 365 | |
| Anthony Asquith | 1921 | Film Director | Son of prime minister The Winslow Boy (1948), The Browning Version (1951), Pygmalion (1938), French Without Tears (1940), The Way to the Stars (1945) and an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) |
[8]: 225 | |
| Maurice Gorham | 1919 | Controller of BBC TV | Editor, Radio Times Director of Radio Éireann |
[8]: 209 | |
| Raymond Massey | 1919 | Hollywood actor | Seven Angry Men | [8]: 211 |
Security, Military and Intelligence
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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
- Nigel Sheinwald (1972) Ambassador to the United States
- John Holmes Chairman of the Electoral Commission
- Martin Fido 1963 Fellow, True crime writer
- John Keegan 1953 Military historian
- Sir Nigel Foulkes, 1938 Chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority[9]
- 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
Educators and school teachers
[edit]| Image | Name | Join date |
Field of work | Notes | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nick Bevan | 1960 | Shiplake College | Headmaster | [5]: 41 | |
| Alec Peterson | 1926 | International Baccalaureate | Head of Oxford University Department of Education | [6]: 47 | |
| John Fulton | 1923 | British Council | Chair of British Council | [6]: 29 | |
| Robert Birley | 1922 | Charterhouse Eton College |
Headmaster Professor, City University |
[6]: 24 | |
| Sir Henry Marten | 1891 | Eton College | Provost of Eton Tutor to Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II |
[8]: 33 | |
| Richard Powell Francis | 1879 | Brisbane Grammar School | First Australian member of Balliol to graduate. | [10]: 117 [11] | |
| George Ferris Whidborne Mortimer | 1823 | City of London School | Headmaster; abolitionist "The Immediate Abolition of Slavery Compatible with the Safety and Prosperity of the Colonies" (1833) |
[12] | |
| Richard Jenkyns | 1800 | Balliol College | Master, educational innovator | [13] |
Social and political theorists
[edit]- Raj Patel (1991) social justice
- Geoff Mulgan 1979 Collective intelligence
- Graeme Garrard (1990) political thought
- Stephen Macedo (1980) liberalism
- Michael Sandel (1975) social justice
- Alex Callinicos (1968) Trotskyist political theorist
- Aly Kassam-Remtulla (1999) cultural anthropologist and non-profit executive
- David Miller 1967 social justice
- Robert Putnam 1963 Fulbright Fellow, two-level game theory, "Bowling Alone"
- Steven Lukes FBA 1958 Fellow, sociology
- Peter Sedgwick 1952 The politics of psychiatric services
- Norman O. Brown 1932 Freudo-Marxism
- Sir Leon Simon 1900 Zionist
- Sir Ernest Barker 1893 FBA political science
- Robert Ranulph Marett 1885 cultural anthropology
Philanthropists
[edit]- Stephanie Shirley 2001 funded the Oxford Internet Institute which is based at Balliol.
- Matthew Westerman 1983 funded Pathfinder scheme and extended it to Asia[14]
- John Templeton 1934 Rhodes Scholar, Fund Manager
- J. Irwin Miller American industrialist, modern architecture
- Cecil Jackson-Cole 1928 (external student[15]) founder of OXFAM
- William Appleton Coolidge (1901–1992) 1924 Set up Pathfinder scheme for students to visit USA[16][17][18]
- Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead 1874 arts and crafts movement
- Hannah Brackenbury 1865 major donor to Balliol College for scholarships and buildings
- Dervorguilla of Galloway 1282 endowed Balliol College as a "college for the poor"
Colonial administrators
[edit]- Crawford Murray MacLehose Joined 1936. Diplomat: ambassador to South Vietnam 1967-9, to Denmark 1969-71, Governor of Hong Kong 1971-82 (longest serving ever) .Life peer 1982 (crossbench). Died 2000.
- Cyril George Fox Cartwright[19]
- 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 Primrose private secretary to the Viceroy of India, chair Inland Revenue
- Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne 1863 listed as Lord Kerry viceroy of India
- Roger Ludlow 1609 (spelt Ludlowe) US Colonial lawmaker
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 in rowing
- 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
Sport
[edit]- Matthew Syed (1992) table tennis Commonwealth champion, columnist and broadcaster
- Richard Sharp 1959 England rugby union captain
- Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi 1959 India cricket captain
- Alan Rotherham 1881 England rugby union captain
Other
[edit]- Johnny Acton (1989) cook
- Ghislaine Maxwell, socialite and convicted child sex trafficker[20]
- Aly Kassam-Remtulla Rhodes Scholar
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[21]
- Colin McGinn
- Lytton Strachey
Balliol Chancellors of Oxford University
[edit]- Richard FitzRalph (1332)
- William de Wilton (1374)
- Thomas Chace (1426)[22]
- 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".[23] The current Master of Balliol is Helen Ghosh.[24]
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)
- ^ "Balliol Women: Some Alumnae of the College | Balliol College, University of Oxford". www.balliol.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Balliol College Register (Seventh Edition) by Tom Bewley and John Jones. 2005.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Balliol College Register (Fifth Edition) by John Jones and Sally Viney 1983
- ^ Singh, Olivia. "Denzel Washington addresses paying for 'Black Panther' star Chadwick Boseman's acting classes: 'Wakanda Forever, but where's my money?'". Insider. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
- ^ a b c d Balliol College Register (Third Edition) by Ivo Elliott 1953
- ^ "Foulkes, Sir Nigel (Gordon)" in Who's Who online, accessed 21 October 2023 (subscription required)
- ^ Balliol College Register (Second Edition) by Ivo Elliott 1934
- ^ "Memorial inscriptions". Balliol College Archives & Manuscripts. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
- ^ George Mortimer ODNB
- ^ Richard Jenkyns ODNB
- ^ https://www.alumniweb.ox.ac.uk/balliol/about-the-westerman-pathfinders
- ^ ONDB
- ^ "William A. Coolidge".
- ^ https://www.alumniweb.ox.ac.uk/balliol/about-the-westerman-pathfinders
- ^ "William A. Coolidge Dies; Sheehan Gathering". 3 June 1992.
- ^ "Archives & Manuscripts - Memorial inscriptions". Balliol College. 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
- ^ Selinger-Morris, Samantha (12 August 2020). "Who is Maxwell and what is she charged with?". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
- ^ Avrion, Mitchison. "Getting into New College, Oxford". Web of Stories. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas. National Archives.; CP 40 / 677; in 1430; Thomas Chace appears as first name, but as defendant in a case of debt, brought by Thomas Coventre.
- ^ Statute II "The Master", clause 1
- ^ "Election of New Master". Balliol College, Oxford. 18 March 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
