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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

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Media

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Newspaper editors

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Sir Richard Lambert 1963 The Financial Times
Andrew Knight 1958 The Economist
Geoffrey Cannon 1958 Radio Times 1969-79

Sunday Times
assistant editor 1979-83

Rock Journalist

World food and nutrition policy

"Dieting Makes you Fat" 1982
"The Food Scandal" 1984
"The Politics of Food" 1987
"Superbug" 1995

"Food, Nutrition and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective" WCRF 1997
Baron William Rees-Mogg 1946 The Times
David Astor 1931 DNG

The Observer

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Henry Vincent Hodson 1925 The Sunday Times

Political journalists

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Jonathan Sacerdoti 1998 broadcaster, journalist, and TV producer campaigner against antisemitism
Gary Gibbon 1983 Channel 4
George Stephanopoulos 1984 Co-anchor of Good Morning America
Robert Peston 1978 ITV Political editor BBC then ITV
E. J. Dionne 1973 US op-ed columnist
David Aaronovitch 1972 DNG, communist, Orwell Prize winner
Charles Krauthammer 1971 Commonwealth Scholar, US conservative
Martin Kettle 1967 The Guardian, Marxist
Christopher Hitchens 1967 Atlantic, Vanity Fair, new atheist
Peter Snow 1958 Current affairs TV presenter
Hugo Young 1958 The Guardian
Peter Usborne 1953 co-founder, Private Eye, founder Usborne publishers

Radio, television and film

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Chadwick Boseman 1998 Summer school
Superhero actor (US)

 Black Panther [5]
Aidan Hartley 1984 Documentary maker Unreported World, Dispatches for C4

Kenyan wildlife conservationist and cattle farmer

"Wildlife" column on The Spectator

 [6]: 229 
Vanessa Engle 1981 Documentary maker Lefties [6]: 155 
Michael Winterbottom 1979 Film Director 24 Hour Party People
In This World		 [6]: 591 
Bill Heine 1967 Radio Oxford broadcaster Refounded the Penultimate Picture Palace 1976. Commissioned the Headington Shark on his property. [6]: 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)
Roger Mayne 1947 Photographer Southam Street
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)
Maurice Gorham 1920 Controller of BBC TV
Raymond Massey 1919 Hollywood actor Seven Angry Men

Security, Military and Intelligence

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John Aidan Liddell VC MC

Educators and school teachers

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Nick Bevan 1960 Shiplake College Headmaster [6]: 41 
Alec Peterson 1926 International Baccalaureate Head of Oxford University Department of Education [8]: 47 
John Fulton 1923 British Council Chair of British Council [8]: 29 
Robert Birley 1922 Charterhouse
Eton College		 Headmaster
Professor, City University		 [8]: 24 
Sir Henry Marten 1891 Eton College Provost of Eton
Tutor to Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II		 [9]: 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

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Philanthropists

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Colonial administrators

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Theologians and clergy

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Judith M. Brown 1990 Reverend Professor Beit Professor of Commonwealth History
Fellow

Anglican Priest - the first woman chaplain at Oxford (Brasenose) 2017

Associate Priest, St Mary Magdalen		 [6]: 66 
Alan Wilson 1978 Bishop of Buckingham Doctoral thesis: "The authority of church and party among London Anglo-Catholics, 1880–1914, with special reference to the Church Crisis, 1898–1904"

Called for removal of restrictions for on clergy entering into same-sex civil marriages

 [6]: 588 
Michael Sadgrove 1968 Anglican priest

theologian

 Dean of Durham, Dean of Sheffield [6]: 473 
Bill Sykes 1960 Anglican priest Chaplain, University College, London and University College, Oxford

Visions of Faith: An Anthology of Reflections

 [6]: 527 
Ian Ker 1960 Catholic priest, convert from Anglican authority on John Henry Newman
Theology lecturer, Oxford
Mere Catholicism
Biography of GK Chesterton		 [6]: 296 [20]
David Young 1951 Bishop of Ripon [6]: 603 
Lionel Blue 1950 Rabbi (first to come out publicly)
BBC Radio 4 broadcaster - "Thought for the Day"		 Occasional guest speaker of the Jewish Gay and Lesbian Group and a patron of Centred (formerly Kairos).
Autobiography Hitchhiking to Heaven 2004		 [6]: 49 
Mirza Nasir Ahmad 1934 Third Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community from Pakistan Adopted the motto "Love for all, Hatred for None" [8]: 97 
Austin Farrer 1923 Anglo-Catholic theologian Warden of Keble College [9]: 244 
Shogi Effendi Rabbani 1920 Guardian of the Baháʼí Faith He expanded the number of people following the faith. [9]: 244 
Israel Brodie 1916 Chief Rabbi His ministry, which coincided with the creation of the State of Israel, was focused on rebuilding European Jewry after WW2 [9]: 181 
Arnold Lunn 1907 Catholic convert from Methodism
Catholic apologist		 Inventor of the slalom ski run [9]: 121 
Ronald Knox 1906 Catholic convert from Anglican Catholic Chaplain to the University of Oxford
Translator of the Bible		 [9]: 112 
William Heard 1903 Catholic convert 1910
Cardinal		 First Scottish cardinal since the Reformation
Closely attended Pope Paul VI.		 [9]: 112 
William Temple 1900 Archbishop of Canterbury "His influence on the British people, in the field of social justice, on the Christian Church as a whole, and in international relations, was of a kind to which it would be very difficult to find a parallel in the history of England" Bishop George Bell [9]: 72 
Thomas Byles 1889 Blessed
Catholic priest		 A number of witnesses attest to his serenity and calmness amid the chaos – hearing confessions, giving blessings and doing what he could to comfort the terrified women and children into the lifeboats and it is said twice refused a place in the lifeboat. He was last seen gathering a group of men around him and leading them in the Rosary. [9]: 24 [21]
Cosmo Lang 1882 Archbishop of York, then Archbishop of Canterbury Criticised Edward VIII for abdicating [9]: 11 
Hardwicke Rawnsley 1870 Anglican priest Chaplain to the King

Co-founder National Trust

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Joseph Wood 1861 Headmaster successively of Leamington College, Tonbridge School, and Harrow School Prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral [10]: 33 
Henry Oxenham 1846 Catholic convert from Anglican
Ecclesiologist		 Sought a better understanding between the Roman and Anglican churches [10]: 5 
John Coleridge Patteson 1844 Missionary to the South Sea Islands
Bishop of Anglican Church of Melanesia		 Killed by natives after being mistaken for a slave trader [10]: 4 
Godfrey Thring 1841 Anglican priest Co-writer of the hymn Crown Him with Many Crowns [10]: 3 
Frederick Temple 1838 Fellow

Archbishop of Canterbury

 "The doctrine of Evolution is in no sense whatever antagonistic to the teachings of Religion." [10]: 3 
Benjamin Jowett 1835 Anglican cleric
Moral teacher		 Master of Balliol
Regius Professor of Greek
Confidant of Florence Nightingale		 [10]: 2 
Dean Stanley 1834 Anglican priest ecclesiastical historian [10]: 1 
Frederick William Faber 1832 Jesuit
Catholic convert from Anglican		 Hymn writer Faith of our Fathers
Archibald Campbell Tait 1830 Archbishop of Canterbury (first from Scotland)
Henry Manning 1827 Catholic convert from Anglican; Archbishop of Westminster
Archibald Alison 1775 Scottish Anglican priest and essayist
John Douglas (1740) Bishop of Salisbury
George Abbot (1580) Archbishop of Canterbury

Chancellor, University of Dublin
Alexander Briant (1574) Saint and martyr Hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn
Robert Persons 1568 Jesuit. Led the English Mission. Rector, English College, Rome [22]
Anthony Garnet c1550 Anglican Priest
ordained 1556		 Fellow
Rector, Lowther; Vicar,Burgh by Sands, Cumbria 1574–1582 (death)		 [23]
John Bell (1498) Bishop of Worcester Supported King Henry VIII in the King's Great Matter
Sir Thomas More 1492 Saint and martyr
Lord High Chancellor		 Refused to sign Oath of Supremacy to King Henry VIII and was executed. [24]
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George Neville 1450 Archbishop of York
Lord Chancellor
John Morton 1440 Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury
John Wycliffe 1345 Dissident Catholic priest Involved in translating Bible into English
Thomas Bradwardine (1318) Archbishop of Canterbury Known as "Doctor Profundus"

Music

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Chess

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  • 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

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Other

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Fictional

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Notable applicants who were not matriculated

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Balliol Chancellors of Oxford University

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Masters of Balliol

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Main article: List of masters of Balliol College, Oxford

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".[28] The current Master of Balliol is Helen Ghosh.[29]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ 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)
  2. ^ Balliol College (University of Oxford) (1934). The Balliol College Register (2nd ed.). Oxford. Retrieved 25 March 2013.(1934, covering matriculations 1833-1933)
  3. ^ Balliol College (University of Oxford) (1953). The Balliol College Register (3rd ed.). Oxford. Retrieved 25 March 2013.(1953, covering matriculations 1900-1950)
  4. ^ "Balliol Women: Some Alumnae of the College | Balliol College, University of Oxford". www.balliol.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Balliol College Register (Seventh Edition) by Tom Bewley and John Jones. 2005.
  7. ^ "Foulkes, Sir Nigel (Gordon)" in Who's Who online, accessed 21 October 2023 (subscription required)
  8. ^ a b c d Balliol College Register (Fifth Edition) by John Jones and Sally Viney 1983
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Balliol College Register (Third Edition) by Ivo Elliott 1953
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i Balliol College Register (Second Edition) by Ivo Elliott 1934
  11. ^ "Memorial inscriptions". Balliol College Archives & Manuscripts. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  12. ^ George Mortimer ODNB
  13. ^ Richard Jenkyns ODNB
  14. ^ https://www.alumniweb.ox.ac.uk/balliol/about-the-westerman-pathfinders
  15. ^ ONDB
  16. ^ "William A. Coolidge".
  17. ^ https://www.alumniweb.ox.ac.uk/balliol/about-the-westerman-pathfinders
  18. ^ "William A. Coolidge Dies; Sheehan Gathering". 3 June 1992.
  19. ^ "Archives & Manuscripts - Memorial inscriptions". Balliol College. 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  20. ^ Obituary Ian Ker Catholic Herald 8 November 2022
  21. ^ https://www.fatherbyles.com/ retrieved 14 December 2024
  22. ^ https://www.thomaspoolelibrary.org.uk/robert-parsons-jesuit-priest/ Thomas Poole Library retrieved 14 December 2024
  23. ^ The Clergy Database CCEd Record ID: 66197
  24. ^ Circumstantial evidence
  25. ^ Selinger-Morris, Samantha (12 August 2020). "Who is Maxwell and what is she charged with?". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  26. ^ Avrion, Mitchison. "Getting into New College, Oxford". Web of Stories. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
  27. ^ 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.
  28. ^ Statute II "The Master", clause 1
  29. ^ "Election of New Master". Balliol College, Oxford. 18 March 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
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