List of Oriel College people
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This is an incomplete list of notable people affiliated with Oriel College, Oxford University, England, including former students, academics, provosts and honorary fellows.
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[edit] Former students
- Richard Ithamar Aaron - D.Phil student, graduated 1928: Welsh philosopher.
- William Cardinal Allen - Undergraduate 1547, Fellow of the college from 1550 to 1561: Principal of St Mary Hall 1556 to 1561, Cardinal.
- Thomas Arundel - Undergraduate 1373: Chancellor of England and Archbishop of Canterbury. Opposed Richard II and crowned Henry of Bolingbroke as Henry IV.
- Sir Harold Idris Bell - Adam de Brome scholar 1897: CB OBE, British papyrologist (specialising in Roman Egypt) and scholar of Welsh literature.
- Bernard Bosanquet - Undergraduate 1896 to 1899: Triple Blues, English test cricketer, inventor of the googly.
- 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.
- Joseph Butler - Undergraduate 1715 to 1718, graduate until 1733: Bishop of Bristol and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral 1740, Bishop of Durham 1750.
- Baron Clements - Irish nobleman and politician.
- Anthony Collett - author and writer on natural history
- 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 - English historian and Regius Professor of Modern History, 1892 to 1894.
- Robert Alfred Cloynes Godwin-Austen - Undergraduate 1826-1830: English geologist.
- George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen - British statesman and businessman.
- William Grant - Scottish politician and judge.
- Frank Tracy Griswold - Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
- William Gerard Hamilton - English Statesman, Chief Secretary for Ireland 1761 to 1764.
- Renn Dickson Hampden - Bishop of Hereford 1847.
- Charles Handy - Management educator. Honorary Fellow.
- James Hannington - Undergraduate 1868 to 1873: Missionary bishop.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- James Meade - Undergraduate 1926 to 1930: Economist, Nobel Prize award winner.
- Herman Merivale - English civil servant and author.
- Thomas Mozley - English clergyman and writer.
- Paul Murphy - Former Secretary of State for Wales and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
- Baron Normand of Aberdour - Scottish politician and judge.
- Lord Onslow of Woking - MI6 field agent and privy counsellor.
- 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.
- Sir Walter Raleigh - Undergraduate 1572 to 1574: Courtier, statesman, scientist, writer, poet, spy, and explorer.
- Cecil Rhodes - Undergraduate 1873, 1876 to 1878, 1881: Politician, businessman and the effective founder of the state of Rhodesia.
- John Martin Robinson - Historian and author.
- 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.
- 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.
- Plum Warner - Played first-class cricket for Oxford University, Middlesex and England.
- Joseph Warton - English academic and literary critic.
- Gilbert White - Undergraduate 1739 to 1743, Fellow of the college 1744 to 1793. Pioneering naturalist and ornithologist.
- 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.
- Sandy Wilson - British lyricist and composer of The Boy Friend (1954).
- Michael Wood - Popular British historian, broadcaster and television presenter.
- See also Former students of Oriel College.
[edit] Former Fellows and lecturers
- Matthew Arnold - Fellow 1845 to 1852: Poet and Critic, Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1857 to 1867
- Thomas Arnold - Fellow 1815 to 1821: 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 - Fellow 1845: Poet.
- James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce - Fellow 1862: British jurist, historian and politician.
- John William Burgon - Fellow 1846: Dean of Chichester Cathedral.
- Jeremy Catto - Fellow to 2006: British historian.
- Thomas Kelly Cheyne - Fellow 1885 to 1905: English Biblical critic.
- Arthur Hugh Clough - Fellow: English poet.
- Sir Zelman Cowen - Fellow 1947 to 1950: 19th Governor-General of Australia.
- 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 - Fellow 1828: English churchman, curate of Cuddesdon.
- James Fraser - Fellow 1840: Anglican Bishop of Manchester 1870 to 1885.
- Vivian Hunter Galbraith - Fellow of the British Academy and Oxford Regius Professor of Modern History.
- Richard Hurrell Froude - Early leader of the Oxford Movement.
- Robert Alfred Cloynes Godwin-Austen - Undergraduate and Fellow 1830: English geologist.
- 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.
- William Young Sellar - Fellow: Scottish classical scholar.
- John Robinson - Fellow: English diplomat, Bishop of Bristol and London.
- Richard Whately - Undergraduate, Fellow 1811: English logician, economist and theological writer, Archbishop of Dublin
[edit] Former Provosts
- 1326 to 1332: Adam de Brome - Almoner to Edward II and founder of college.
- 1348 to 1349: William de Hawkesworth - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
- 1493 to 1507: Alexander Barclay - British poet.
- 1565 to 1566: Roger Marbeck - Chief physician to Elizabeth I.
- 1814 to 1828: Edward Copleston - Oxford Professor of Poetry 1802 to 1812, Bishop of Llandaff and Dean of St Paul's 1828 to 1849.
- 1882 to 1905: David Binning Monro - Scottish Homeric scholar.
- 1929 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.
- 1982 to 1990: Sir Zelman Cowen - former Governor-General of Australia
- 1990 to 2004: Ernest Nicholson - former Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture
- 2004 (current): Sir Derek Morris - former Chairman of the Competition Commission
[edit] Fellows and lecturers
Fellows, ordered by seniority of fellowship, oldest first;
- Graham Vincent-Smith - Philip and Pauline Harris Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics
- Gordon MacPherson - Reader in Experimental Pathology, Turnbull Fellow and Tutor in Medicine, Senior Tutor
- Glenn Black - Tutor in English, Vice-Provost
- David Charles - Colin Prestige Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy
- David Barlow - Nuffield Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- John Barton - Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture
- Richard Cross - Tutor in Theology and Dean of Degrees
- David Hodgson - Todd Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry
- Robert Evans - Regius Professor of Modern History
- Teresa Morgan - Nancy Bissell Turpin Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Senior Dean
- Brian Leftow - Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion
- Derek Blake - Isobel Laing Post-Doctoral Felllow in Biomedical Sciences
Lecturers;
- See also Fellows of Oriel College
[edit] Honorary Fellows
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.
- Peter Brunt - Eminent ancient historian.
- 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
[edit] References
- Oxford University Calendar 2005-2006 (2005) — Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-928370-2
- 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
