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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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Economists

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Adam Smith

Banking and finance

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Historians

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Political, social and economic historians

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Image Name Date of admission Field of work Comments References
Maxine Berg 2009 Industrial Revolution FBA, Warwick University Professor
Arthur Marwick 1957 Historiographer "The New Nature of History" 1971
Raphael Samuel 1952 Working Class ” one of the most outstanding, original intellectuals of his generation “
Hugh Stretton 1946 Urban history "one of Australia's leading public intellectuals"
R. M. Hartwell 1948 Industrial Revolution "The Rising Standard of Living in England, 1800–1850" (1961)
Fin Crisp 1939 Political science Rhodes Scholar, “The Parliamentary Government of the Commonwealth of Australia” 1949
Peter Calvocoressi 1931 Post–Cold War era World Politics Since 1945; World Politics 1945-2000
Sir Denis Brogan 1923 History of the United States government “The American Political System 1933
Sir Keith Hancock 1931 British Empire Chichele Professor of Economic History, “The British War Economy” 1949
Sir Lewis Namier 1908 The History of Parliament “History of Parliament”
R. H. Tawney 1899 Christian socialism "Tawney exercised the widest influence of any historian of his time, politically, socially and, above all, educationally"

European history

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Image Name Date of admission Field of work Comments References
Timothy D. Snyder 1995 Central Europe Marshall Scholar, FBA, Fellow, Yale Professor
Frank McDonough 1981 Second World War
Anthony Teasdale 1975 History of the European Union
Philip Nord 1971 History of France
Jeremy Lawrance 1971 History of Spain [6]
Geoff Eley 1967 History of Germany
James H. Billington 1950 History of Russia Rhodes Scholar, 13th Librarian of Congress

Colonial historians

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Image Name Date of admission Field of work Comments References
Ronald Robinson 1971 British Empire FBA, Fellow
C. A. Bayly 1963 British Empire
Tapan Raychaudhuri 1953 History of India
Manning Clark 1938 History of Australia "Australia's most famous historian"
Daniel J. Boorstin 1934 History of America 12th Librarian of Congress
John La Nauze 1932 History of Australia Rhodes Scholar
Max Crawford 1927 History of Australia
Donald Creighton 1925 History of Australia

Early modern historians

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Image Name Date of admission Field of work Comments References
Suzannah Lipscomb 2009 The Tudors "Not Just the Tudors"
Keith Thomas 1952 History of Religion "Religion and the Decline of Magic"
Gerald Aylmer 1943 17th Century
Christopher Hill 1931 English Civil War Master of Balliol, Marxist
Vivian Hunter Galbraith 1910 Domesday Book
Charles Harding Firth 1876 English Civil War

Medievalists

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Image Name Date of admission Field of work Comments References
Patrick Wormald 1966 Anglo-Saxons "The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century" [7]
Jeremy Catto 1958 History of Education "The History of the University of Oxford" [8]
Maurice Keen 1954 Chivalry
Rodney Hilton 1935 Feudalism Marxist
R. H. C. Davis 1937 Medieval Europe
Richard Southern 1929 Middle Ages "The Making of the Middle Ages"
F. M. Powicke 1899 13th Century
Robert Howard Hodgkin 1895 Anglo-Saxons
H. W. C. Davis 1891 Medieval Europe father of RHC Davis

General historians

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Middle East and Holocaust historians

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Archaeologists

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Public intellectuals

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Law

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Judges

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Thomas Bingham
John Marshall Harlan II Supreme Court of the United States Associate Justice

Lawyers

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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

Writers

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Novelists and playwrights

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Aldous Huxley

Biographers including auto-biographers

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Political journalists

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Robert Peston, ITV Political editor

Poets

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Hilaire Belloc
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Classicists

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Image Name Date of admission Field of work Comments References
Timothy Barnes 1960 History of Christianity FBA, Professor Toronto University
Glen Bowersock 1957 Ancient history Rhodes Scholar, Honorary Fellow
Jasper Griffin 1956 Classics FBA, Fellow, Public Orator
Martin Litchfield West 1955 Ancient Greek OM, FBA,"a man of few words in seven languages"
Robin Nisbet 1947 Classical Latin FBA, Snell Exhibitioner, Corpus Christi Professor of Latin
Russell Meiggs 1939 Ancient history " Trees and timber in the ancient Mediterranean world " 1982
Sir Kenneth Dover 1938 Ancient Greek Fellow, President British Academy,“Greek Homosexuality” 1978
William Watt 1933 Classics FBA
Richard William Hunt 1927 Paleography Keeper of the Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library
Roger Mynors 1922 Classical Latin Corpus Christi Professor of Latin
Roland Gregory Austin [de] 1919 Philology Virgil, Professor, Liverpool University
Edgar Lobel 1907 Classical Philology Declined knighthood, Oxyrhynchus Papyri
H. J. Rose 1904 Greek mythology Rhodes Scholar, FBA, "A Handbook of Greek Mythology", chess player [10]
William Hardie 1880 Classics Fellow, Professor of Humanity at Edinburgh University
Robert Scott 1854 Philology Master, "A Greek-English Lexicon" [11]
David Binning Monro 1854 Homer FBA Vice-Chancellor
Robinson Ellis 1852 Classical Latin Catullus, Corpus Professor of Latin
William Young Sellar 1842 Latin poetry FRSE, Professor of humanity at Edinburgh University

Literary scholars

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Henry Sweet

Newspaper editors

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Television and film

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Peter Snow, television presenter

Security

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John Aidan Liddell VC MC

School masters

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Philosophers

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Social and political theorists

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Colonial administrators

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Politicians

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Currently active

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Boris Johnson, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Yvette Cooper, British Labour politician, former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Members of Parliament
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House of Lords
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Deceased members of the House of Lords since 2000

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MPs and MEPs who completed service after 2020

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MPs and MEPs who completed service 2001 - 2020

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UK politicians active post-world war II

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Roy Jenkins, British Labour politician, former Home Secretary
Denis Healey, British Labour politician, former Chancellor of the Exchequer
Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

UK politicians active between World War I and World War II

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Lord Curzon
H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

UK politicians pre-World War I

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Politicians, statesmen and monarchs in non-UK countries

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Richard von Weizsäcker

Theologians and clergy

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John Wycliffe
Cardinal Manning
Shoghi Effendi Rabbani, head of the Baháʼí Faith (1921–1957)

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".[20] The current Master of Balliol is Helen Ghosh.[21]

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. ^ 'RIDLEY, Sir Adam (Nicholas)', in Who's Who 2014 (London: A. & C. Black, 2014)
  6. ^ LAWRANCE, Prof. Jeremy Norcliffe Haslehurst', in Who's Who 2014 (London: A. & C. Black), online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2013, accessed 3 May 2014 (subscription site)
  7. ^ "Patrick Wormald". Obituary. The Times. 6 October 2004.
  8. ^ "Jeremy Catto". Obituary. Daily Telegraph. 21 August 2018.
  9. ^ Russell, James. "LES GRANDS NUMISMATES: George Macdonald (1862-1940; Kt 1927)" (PDF). Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  10. ^ "Rose v Capablanca". ChessGames.com.
  11. ^ "Balliol College". British History Online. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ "Memorial inscriptions". Balliol College Archives & Manuscripts. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  14. ^ "Archives & Manuscripts - Memorial inscriptions". Balliol College. 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  15. ^ [https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-16236 "Foulkes, Sir Nigel (Gordon)" in Who's Who online, accessed 21 October 2023 (subscription required)
  16. ^ Selinger-Morris, Samantha (12 August 2020). "Who is Maxwell and what is she charged with?". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  17. ^ "Warren Rovetch Obituary (1926 - 2017) The Daily Camera". Legacy.com. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  18. ^ Avrion, Mitchison. "Getting into New College, Oxford". Web of Stories. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
  19. ^ 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.
  20. ^ Statute II "The Master", clause 1
  21. ^ "Election of New Master". Balliol College, Oxford. 18 March 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
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