List of alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
A list of alumni of Magdalen College (
i/ˈmɔːdlɪn/ MAWD-lin),[1] one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Notable former students include politicians (four are current Cabinet members), lawyers, bishops, poets, and academics.
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Sir John Betjeman
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King Edward VIII
Politicians, civil servants and Parliamentarians
Four Magdalen alumni are members of the current Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition Cabinet:[2]
- William Hague is the First Secretary of State and Foreign Secretary
- George Osborne is the Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Jeremy Hunt is the Secretary of State for Health; and
- Dominic Grieve is the Attorney General.
Other alumni who were in public service are:
- Geoffrey Adams, British Diplomatic Service
- Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Indian economist and Civil Servant
- Francis Ashley, lawyer and MP between 1614 and 1625
- Sir Walter Bagot, 5th Baronet, 18th-century MP
- Lord Baker, politician, former MP
- Thomas Berkeley, MP
- Sir John Biggs-Davison, former Conservative MP
- Sir Trevor Bigham, barrister and Assistant Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police from 1914 to 1931
- Nicholas Boles, Conservative MP for Grantham and Stamford
- Sir Ian Bowater, Lord Mayor of London (1967–70)
- Sir Ashley Bramall, Labour Party politician, MP for Bexley from 1946 to 1950
- George Brandis, Australian politician
- Jock, Lord Bruce-Gardyne, Conservative politician
- Sir Julian Bullard, diplomat, Foreign Office Minister and Pro-chancellor of Birmingham University
- Tankerville Chamberlayne, landowner in Hampshire and a Member of Parliament for Southampton
- Senator Wesley Clark, American Army general and politician
- Sir Cecil Clementi, British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Hong Kong from 1925–30, and Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Straits Settlements from 1930–34
- Robert Douglas Coe, diplomat and U.S. Ambassador to Denmark from 1953 to 1957
- Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker, member of the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War, and later a UK Conservative MP
- Francis Patrick Donovan, Australian diplomat and jurist.
- Sir Erasmus Dryden, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament for Banbury (1624)
- Gareth Evans, Australian international policymaker, former politician and current Chancellor of the Australian National University
- Jim Forbes, Australian politician
- Malcolm Fraser, former Australian Liberal Party politician who was the 22nd Prime Minister of Australia
- Sir Marrack Goulding, diplomat, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Warden of St Antony's College (1997—2006)
- John Hemming
- Chris Huhne, Liberal Democrat politician
- Lord Hutton, formerly John Hutton MP
- Harford Montgomery Hyde, barrister, politician (Ulster Unionist MP for Belfast North), author and biographer
- Michael Jay, Baron Jay of Ewelme, former diplomat and Chairman of the House of Lords Appointments Commission
- Gladwyn Jebb, Civil Servant, diplomat and politician
- Keith Joseph, barrister and politician
- Francis Oswald Lindley, British diplomat
- Stephen Milligan, Conservative politician and journalist
- Randy Minchew, American politician and lawyer
- John Redwood Conservative MP for Wokingham
- William Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, one of the "Gang of Four" of senior British Labour Party politicians who defected to form the Social Democratic Party (SDP)
- Henry Sacheverell, clergyman and politician
- Duncan Sandys, politician
- Sir John Scarlett, Director General of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 2004 to 2009.
- Siôn Simon, Labour politician and MP (2001—2010)
- Zev Sufott, British-born Israeli diplomat, Ambassador to the Netherlands, first Israeli Ambassador to China[3]
- John Turner, lawyer and former politician, who served as the 17th Prime Minister of Canada.
King Edward VIII
Peers and Royals
A number of Magdalen alumni have been associated with Royal Families around the World, or hereditary peerage titles:
- King Edward VIII (attended when Prince of Wales; did not graduate)
- Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford
- Wilfrid Ashley, 1st Baron Mount Temple, soldier and Conservative politician
- King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck of Bhutan
- Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby, Conservative politician
- Al-Muhtadee Billah, Crown Prince of Brunei Darussalam
- Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne, Liberal politician in William Gladstone's government
- Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges, civil servant and Chancellor of Reading University (1959-1969)
- George Cambridge, 2nd Marquess of Cambridge, great-great-grandson of King George III
- Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, Governor of Queensland (1905–1909), Governor of New South Wales (1909 to 1913), and Viceroy of India (1916 to 1921)
- John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore, politician, peer and soldier
- Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire, Peer and MP
- Thomas Fairfax, 5th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, 17th century politician
- Patrick Neill, Baron Neill of Bladen, member of the House of Lords, Warden of All Souls College (1977 until 1995), Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1985 till 1989)
- Henry Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 9th Duke of Newcastle, peer and aviator
- Prince Tomohito of Mikasa
- Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein, a member of the British Royal Family
- Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson, Baron Browne-Wilkinson, former Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in the United Kingdom and former Head of the Privy Council and Vice-Chancellor of the High Court.
- Lord Frederick Windsor, great-grandson of King George V.
Justice
- James Richard Atkin, lawyer and judge
- Charles Arnold-Baker, barrister, author and historian
- Michael Beloff, barrister and former President of Trinity College
- Jocelyn Benson, lawyer, Dean and author
- Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount Midleton, Irish lawyer and politician
- Sir Charles Caesar, Judge and Master of the Rolls
- Guido Calabresi, legal scholar and senior Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit.
- Simon Chesterman, legal scholar
- Alfred Denning, Baron Denning, lawyer and senior Law Lord
- Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne, lawyer, politician, Lord Chancellor (1962—1964)
- John Doyle, jurist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia (1995—2012)
- Ronald Dworkin, philosopher of Law
- James Edelman, youngest person to be appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia
- Russ Feingold, US lawyer and politician
- Michael Fox, barrister and High Court judge
- Sir James Gobbo, jurist and 25th Governor of Victoria
- Patrick Keane, Justice of the High Court of Australia
- Harold Hongju Koh, Korean-American lawyer and legal scholar
- Neal Macrossan, lawyer, judge and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland
- Dinah Rose, human rights barrister
- David Souter, former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- Jonathan Sumption, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
- Gerald Thesiger, High Court Judge.
Clergy
- Edward Barber, (Archdeacon of Chester) (1886-1914)
- Hugh Boulter, Archbishop of Armagh in the Church of Ireland
- John Colet, churchman and educational pioneer
- Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, theologian, and writer
- John Davenport, puritan clergyman and co-founder of the American colony of New Haven
- Alan Don, Archbishop of Canterbury (1931-1941), Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons from 1936 to 1946 and Dean of Westminster from 1946 to 1959.
- David Edwards, Dean of Norwich, Provost of Southwark and a prolific author
- Accepted Frewen, priest and Archbishop of York from 1660 to 1664
- Bede Griffiths, monk and theologian
- Henry Hammond, 17th-century churchman
- Robert Hawker, Anglican vicar and scholar
- Charles Bousfield Huleatt, Anglican priest
- Owen Oglethorpe, academic and Catholic Bishop, President of Magdalen College, Oxford (1536–1552 and 1553–1555), Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1551–1552)
- Robert Parker, clergyman and scholar
- Henry Phillpotts, Anglican Bishop of Exeter from 1830 to 1869
- Timothy Ware, monk and Bishop of the Eastern Orthodox Church (alias (Kallistos Ware)
- Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal in the Church of Rome.
Academics
Philosophers
A. C. Grayling in 2011
- Ronald Dworkin, legal philosopher
- Gareth Evans
- James Frederick Ferrier, metaphysical writer
- Edward Goldsmith, writer, environmentalist and philosopher
- A. C. Grayling, philosopher
- Peter Heylin, ecclesiastic and author of theological works
- Benedikt Isserlin, former Reader and Head of the Department of Semitic Studies at the University of Leeds.
Historians and Linguists
- Donald Adamson, author and historian
- Richard J. C. Atkinson, historian and archaeologist
- Robert Blake, Baron Blake, historian and life peer
- John Rouse Bloxam, historian and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford
- Thomas Sherrer Ross Boase, art historian, President of Magdalen College (1947–68) and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1958–60)
- Derek Brewer, author and scholar, Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1977–1990)
- Lionel Harry Butler, academic and Principal of Royal Holloway College, University of London (1973-1981)
- William Camden, antiquarian and historian
- Sir Neil Chalmers, former Director of the Natural History Museum London and Warden of Wadham College, Oxford
- Richard Chandler, antiquary
- Simon Chesterman, Dean and Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore
- William Cleaver, churchman and academic, Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford (1785–1809)
- Prof Edward Byles Cowell, translator of Persian poetry and the first Professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge University
- Norman Davies, historian
- Arthur Geoffrey Dickens, academic and author, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull (1959-1962)
- George Edmundson, clergyman and academic historian
- James Fenton, poet, journalist and literary critic
- Niall Ferguson, historian
- Felipe Fernández-Armesto, historian and author
- Theophilus Gale, educationalist, nonconformist and theologian of dissent
- Bernard Gardiner, Warden of All Souls College, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1712–1715)
- N. H. Gibbs, Chichele Professor of the History of War of Oxford University (1953 to 1977)
- Edward Gibbon, historian and Member of Parliament
- Martin Gilbert, historian
- Richard Gombrich, scholar of Sanskrit, Pāli, and Buddhist Studies, currently Founder-President of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies
- Giles Henderson, Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
- R. L. Holdsworth, educationalist, cricketer and Himalayan mountaineer
- Albert Hourani, historian
- Reginald Johnston, academic, diplomat and tutor to Puyi
- Professor Anthony King, psephologist and political commentator
- Francis Leighton, academic and Warden of All Souls College, Oxford (1858-1881)
- David Marquand, academic and former Labour Party MP
- Hormuzd Rassam, native Assyriologist, British diplomat and traveller.
Mathematicians and scientists
Nobel Laureates are bolded
Ben Goldacre in 2009
- John D. Barrow, cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and mathematician
- James Bateman, horticulturist
- H. A. Berlin, neuroscientist
- Humphry Bowen, chemist and botanist
- Henry Clerke, academic and physician, President of Magdalen College, Oxford from 1672-1687
- Frank Close, particle physicist, Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford
- William Henry Corfield
- Charles Daubeny, chemist, botanist and geologist
- Sir Gavin de Beer, evolutionary embryologist, Director of the British Museum of Natural History and President of the Linnean Society of London
- Robin Dunbar, anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist, currently Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at Oxford
- John Eccles (neurophysiologist), Nobel Laureate (1963, Medicine)
- Sir John Bretland Farmer, botanist, was Professor of Botany at Imperial College London
- James Fisher, author, editor, broadcaster, naturalist
- Howard Walter Florey, Nobel Laureate (1945, Medicine)
- Ben Goldacre, physician, academic and science writer
- Jeffrey Alan Gray, psychologist
- John M Goldman, haematologist, oncologist and medical researcher. Pioneer in bone-marrow transplantation for chronic myeloid leukaemia. Founding Chairman of the charity Leuka
- Brian Greene, theoretical physicist and string theorist
- Arianna Huffigen, neuroscientist
- Francis Charles Robert Jourdain, amateur ornithologist and oologist
- Alfred Lodge, mathematician and President of the Mathematical Association
- Amory Lovins, American physicist, environmental scientist and writer
- Peter Medawar, Nobel Laureate (1960, Medicine)
- Desmond Morris, zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter
- Sheffield Airey Neave, naturalist and entomologist
- Matt Ridley, scientist, journalist, and popular author and a member of the House of Lords.
- Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders, biologist and sociologist and later Director of the London School of Economics (1937–1957)
- A. Michael Spence, Nobel Laureate (2001, Economics)
- Jon Stallworthy, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oxford
- Thomas William Webb, astronomer
Sports people
- Harold Arkwright, cricketer
- Francis Barmby, cricketer
- Edgar Burgess, rower
- Charles Burnell, rower in the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Sir Christopher Chataway, former middle and long-distance runner, television news broadcaster, and Conservative politician
- Sir Collier Cudmore, lawyer, politician and Olympic rower who won the Gold medal in the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Michael England, cricketer
- Philip Fleming, banker and rower who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Stanley Garton, rower who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Sir James Angus Gillan, Scottish rower and colonial service official. He competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics.
- Ewart Horsfall, rower (1912 Summer Olympics and 1920 Summer Olympics)
- Alister Kirby, rower at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Sir Clement Courtenay Knollys, rower and Colonial Administrator and Governor
- David Laitt, cricketer
- Sir Henry Leveson Gower, England cricketer and Test Captain
- Alister Kirby, rower who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Duncan Mackinnon, rower in the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Gilchrist Maclagan, rower in the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Evelyn Aubrey Montague, athlete and journalist. He ran in the 1924 Paris Olympics, and is immortalized in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire
- Guy Nickalls, rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Guy Oliver Nickalls, son of Guy Nickalls, rower who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics and in the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Malcolm Nokes, schoolteacher, soldier, research scientist and Olympic athlete (hammer throw and discus throw)
- Tuppy Owen-Smith, sportsman who played Test cricket for South Africa and captained England at Rugby Union
- Henry Wells, judge and coxswain at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Leslie Wormald, rower in the Leander-eight in the 1912 Summer Olympics.
Artists and writers
Ian Hislop in 2009
- Donald Adamson, author and historian
- Julian Barnes, writer
- Sir John Betjeman, poet, writer and broadcaster
- Christopher Derrick, author, reviewer, publisher's reader and lecturer
- Lord Alfred Douglas, author, poet and translator
- Fernanda Eberstadt, writer
- John Florio, linguist and lexicographer
- Alan Garner, novelist
- John Gerrard, Legacy Fellow at Magdalen and artist
- Alan Hollinghurst, novelist and poet
- Pico Iyer, essayist and writer
- Gavin Lambert, screenwriter, novelist and biographer
- Andrew Lloyd Webber, Peer of the realm and music composer
- John Lyly, writer, poet, dramatist, playwright and politician
- Robert Macfarlane, travel writer
- Compton Mackenzie, writer of fiction, biography, histories, and memoir
- Andrew McNeillie, currently Literature Editor at Oxford University Press
- Dave Morris, author of gamebooks, novels and comics
- Douglas Murray, author, writer and commentator
- Stephen Potts, author
- Benjamin Schwarz, writer
- Andrew Sullivan, author, editor, political commentator and blogger
- Wilfred Thesiger, explorer and travel writer
- Oscar Wilde, Irish writer and poet
- George Wither, poet, pamphleteer and satirist
Journalists
- Aravind Adiga, writer and journalist
- Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar, journalist and columnist
- Clive Crook, columnist for the Financial Times
- Matthew D'Ancona, journalist
- Geoffrey Dawson, editor of The Times (1912 to 1919 and 1923 until 1941)
- Bill Emmott, Editor of The Economist (1993-2006)
- Sagarika Ghose, journalist, news anchor and author
- Bevis Hillier, art historian, author and journalist
- Ian Hislop, journalist, satirist, comedian, writer, broadcaster and editor of the magazine Private Eye
- Paul Johnson, journalist, historian, speechwriter and author
- Robert Kee, broadcaster, journalist and writer
- Nicholas D. Kristof, journalist, author, op-ed columnist
- Donald McLachlan, Scottish journalist and author, founding editor of The Sunday Telegraph
- John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of The Economist
- Peter Millar, journalist
- John Sergeant, journalist and TV personality
- Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, UK Peer, brother of Diana, Princess of Wales, journalist and broadcaster
- George Will, columnist, journalist and author
Musicians
- Paul Agnew, operatic tenor
- John Mark Ainsley, lyric tenor
- Robin Blaze, countertenor
- Paul Brough, conductor and teacher
- Harry Christophers, conductor
- Vinicius de Moraes, poet, essayist, playwright and lyricist
- David Lloyd-Jones, conductor
- Dudley Moore, actor, comedian, composer and musician
- Nicholas O'Neill, composer, arranger, organist and choral director
- James Whitbourn, composer and conductor
Broadcasters and entertainers
Louis Theroux in 2009
- Peter Brook, film and stage director
- Michael Denison, actor
- Freddie Grisewood, radio broadcaster
- Robert Hardy, actor
- Brian Inglis, journalist, historian and television presenter
- Terrence Malick, film director, screenwriter and producer
- Katie Mitchell, theatre director
- Louis Theroux, broadcaster
- Simon Woods, actor
Business
- David Abraham, Channel Four CEO
- Sir Eric Berthoud, oil man and diplomat
- Raymond Bonham Carter, banker and father of Helena Bonham Carter
- Sir Rupert Clarke, 3rd Baronet, soldier, businessman and horse rider
- Sir Vernon Ellis, Chair of the British Council
- Darius Guppy, British-Iranian businessman
- Luke Johnson, businessman and Financial Times columnist
- J. Paul Getty, Anglo-American industrialist
- Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, co-founder of Lastminute.com and Peeress
- Prince Rupert Loewenstein, manager of the Rolling Stones[4]
- Sir Humphrey Mackworth, industrialist and politician
- Michael Montague, Baron Montague of Oxford, businessman and politician
- Pete Flint Founder of Trulia, Internet entrepreneur
Other people
- Thomas Tudor Loveday (1875-1966) Principal of Southampton University College (1920-22) and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol (1922-1944)
- Simon Forman, Elizabethan astrologer, occultist and herbalist
- Robert Peverell Hichens, officer in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve
- Marc S. Ellenbogen, diplomat, philanthropist and President of the Prague Society for International Cooperation
Fictional Characters
- P. G. Wodehouse attributes a Magdalen undergraduateship to his fictional literary character Bertie Wooster
- Tibby, in E. M. Forster's Howards End, is also a Magdalen undergraduate
- Bridey in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited
References
- ↑ "Magdalen (Name)". First Names Dictionary on AskOxford.com.
- ↑ http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/nested_content/listings/home_-_news/news/five-members-of-the-new-cabinet-graduated-from-magdalen
- ↑ Twersky, Mordechai I. (2014-04-21). "Zev Sufott, Israel's first ambassador to China, dies aged 86". Haaretz. Retrieved 2014-05-16.
- ↑ Sweeting, Adam (22 May 2014). "Prince Rupert Loewenstein obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
