A list of notable people affiliated with Oriel College , Oxford University , England, including alumni, academics, provosts and honorary fellows.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Academics
Richard Ithamar Aaron – D.Phil student, graduated 1928: Welsh philosopher.
Donald Ferlys Wilson Baden-Powell – Undergraduate 1917: Geologist and palaeolithic archeologist .
Marius Barbeau – Rhodes Scholar 1907–1910: Canadian ethnographer and folklorist .
Geoffrey Barraclough – scholar in History 1926–1929. Chichele Professor of Modern History , University of Oxford, 1970–73.
Harold Idris Bell – Adam de Brome scholar 1897, British papyrologist (specialising in Roman Egypt ) and scholar of Welsh literature .
Peter Brunt – Ancient historian.
Anthony Collett – author and writer on natural history .
Richard A. Epstein – American legal scholar
Eric Foner – American historian, Bancroft Prize winner.
Jeff Forshaw – Particle physicist, winner of the Maxwell Medal and Prize .
James Anthony Froude – Undergraduate 1836 to 1840: English historian and Regius Professor of Modern History , 1892 to 1894.
Robert Alfred Cloynes Godwin-Austen – Undergraduate 1826–1830: English geologist, Fellow in 1830.
Sir Francis Knowles, 5th Baronet – Archaeologist
J. L. Mackie – Undergraduate 1938 to 1940: Australian Philosopher.
James Meade – Undergraduate 1926 to 1930: Economist, Nobel Prize award winner.
Edward Thomas Monro – Principal Physician of Bethlem Hospital from 1816.
Henry Monro – President of the Medical Psychological Association in 1864–1865.
Thomas Monro – Principal Physician of Bedlam Hospital from 1816.
Michael Moore – Professor of theoretical physics at the University of Manchester
John Nunn – English chess player and mathematician
Mark Pattison – Undergraduate 1832: English author and rector of Lincoln College, Oxford .
Eduardo Peñalver – American law professor , President-elect of Seattle University , and Dean of Cornell Law School .
Baden Powell – Undergraduate 1814 to 1817: Physicist and theologian, father of Robert Baden-Powell , founder of the Scout Movement .
Paul Preston – Professor in International History at the London School of Economics ; historian of modern Spain.
Philip Russell , FRS – Director of the third division of the Max Planck Research Group at the Institute of Optics, Information and Photonics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg .
John Martin Robinson – Historian and author.
William David Ross – FBA, philosopher, Aristotelian scholar, Provost of Oriel College, Vice Chancellor of Oxford University.
Rebecca Saxe – Undergraduate 1997–2000, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT.
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.
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.
D. E. R. Watt FRSE – Scottish historian and Professor Emeritus at St Andrews University .
Ronald Lampman Watts – Canadian academic and the 15th Principal and Vice-chancellor of Queen's University from 1974 until 1984.
Miles Weatherall – Physician and research pharmacologist affiliated with London Hospital Medical College and Wellcome Research Laboratories .
Gilbert White – Undergraduate 1739 to 1743, Fellow of the college 1744 to 1793. Pioneering naturalist and ornithologist.
Clergy
William Allen – Undergraduate 1547, Fellow of the college from 1550 to 1561: Principal of St Mary Hall 1556 to 1561, fellow at University of Douai , Cardinal .
Thomas Arundel – Undergraduate 1373: Son of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel , with whom he erected the first college chapel.[1] Chancellor of England and Archbishop of Canterbury .
Godwin Birchenough – Dean of Ripon Cathedral .
Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton – Churchman and translator of one of only two English translations of the Septuagint .
Joseph Butler – Undergraduate 1715 to 1718, graduate until 1733: Bishop of Bristol and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral 1740, Bishop of Durham 1750.
David Chillingworth – Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane 2005–
Nigel Cornwall – Bishop of Borneo 1949–1962.
Maxwell Craig – Minister of the Church of Scotland and General Secretary of Action of Churches Together in Scotland 1990–1999.
Harold de Soysa – Bishop of Colombo 1964–1971.
Frank Tracy Griswold – Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America .
Gerald Edgcumbe Hadow – English Christian missionary to East Africa in the mid-twentieth century.
Renn Hampden – Bampton lecturer in 1832, principal of St Mary Hall 1833, Bishop of Hereford 1847.
David Hand – Bishop Coadjutor of New Guinea 1950–1963, Archbishop of Papua New Guinea 1977–1983
James Hannington – Undergraduate 1868 to 1873: Missionary bishop.
George Wyndham Kennion – Anglican bishop of Adelaide and Bath and Wells .
Edward King – Bishop of Lincoln 1885 to 1910.
Edward Monro -High Church priest and writer.
Thomas Mozley – English clergyman and writer.
Reginald Pecock – Bishop of Chichester
Iain Torrance – President of Princeton Theological Seminary and a former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland .
Vernon White – MLitt in Theology 1980, now principal of STETS and Canon of Winchester
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 .
Michael Iprgrave – Bishop of Lichfield .
Cecil Rhodes
Politicians and civil servants
Alexander Hugh Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh – Scottish politician and statesman, Minister for Scotland 1895 to 1903.
James Brudenell, 5th Earl of Cardigan – Member of Parliament and later peer.
Donald Cameron – Member of the Scottish Parliament since 2016.
Baron Clements – Irish nobleman and politician.
George Coldstream – Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office
José Agustín de Lecubarri – Spanish diplomat and peer
Peter Emery – Member of Parliament from 1959 to 2001, appointed Privy Counsellor in 1993.
William Grant – Scottish MP (1955 to 1962) and judge. Lord Justice Clerk 1962 to 1972.
George Wellesley Hamilton – Ontario political figure, Canadian Conservative MP from 1871 to 1874.
William Gerard Hamilton – English Statesman, Chief Secretary for Ireland 1761 to 1764.
Daniel Hannan – British politician and Conservative MEP (1999 to 2020).
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 1997 to 2010, later a life peer.
Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea – English statesman.
Baron Maude of Stratford-upon-Avon – Conservative party MP from 1963 to 1983, Paymaster General from 1979 until 1981.
David Menhennet CB (1928–2016), 10th Librarian of the House of Commons Library [2]
Paul Murphy – Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (2002 to 2005) and for Wales (2008 to 2009), later a life peer.
Wilfrid Normand, Baron Normand – Scottish politician and judge.
Phillip Oppenheim – MP from 1983 to 1997, businessman, credited for introducing Mojitos to the UK.
Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull – Member of parliament (1601) and hereditary peer.
Cecil Rhodes – Undergraduate 1873, 1876 to 1878, 1881: Politician, businessman and the effective founder of the state of Rhodesia .
Andrew Robathan – British Conservative politician, and Member of Parliament for Blaby .
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 .
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.
William Vesey-FitzGerald – British politician, Governor of Bombay 1867 to 1872 and Member of Parliament for Horsham .
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk – Reich Minister of Finance 1932 to 1945, Leading Minister and de facto Chancellor of Germany 1945.
Lawyers, judges and statesmen
Kwamena Bentsi-Enchill – judge and academic; justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana (1971–1972)
Geoffrey Bindman – human rights lawyer.
Alexander Croke – British judge, colonial administrator and author influential in Nova Scotia of the early 19th century.
Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron – Undergraduate 1710 to July 1713: friend and patron of George Washington .
Sir Francis Ferris QC (1932–2018) – High Court Judge (Chancery Division).
George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen – British statesman and businessman.
John Holt – Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 1689 to 1710.
William Prynne – Graduated BA 1621; lawyer, author, polemicist.
Walter Raleigh – Undergraduate 1572 to 1574: Courtier, statesman, scientist, writer, poet, spy, and explorer.
A. N. Ray – Chief Justice of India (1973–77). Studied modern history.
William Scroggs – Undergraduate 1639 to c.1640: Lord Chief Justice over the Popish Plot .
Charles Wreford Brown
Sports people
Bernard Bosanquet – Undergraduate 1896 to 1899: Triple Blues , English test cricketer , inventor of the googly .
George Bridgewater – New Zealand rower, Bronze medallist in the pair at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Charles Wreford-Brown – Captained the England national football team several times between 1894 and 1895, credited with inventing the word soccer .
Peter Hackworth – British coxswain, cox of the 2002 Blue Boat
Sjoerd Hamburger – Dutch rower, competed in the 2009 and 2010 Boat Races
Malcolm Howard – Canadian rower, Olympic Gold medalist and 2014 OUBC President
Chris Mahoney – British rower, Olympic Silver medalist in 1980
Lucas McGee – American rower, USRowing Men's National Team coach
Pete Reed – British rower, Olympic champion 2008, and world champion 2005/6.
Plum Warner – Played first-class cricket for Oxford University , Middlesex and England .
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James Bryce , Member of Parliament for Aberdeen South 1885–1907
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce – Elected 25 April 1862, perpetual Fellow 6 April 1863, resigned June 1893, honorary fellow 12 October 1894: British jurist, historian and politician.
John Burgon – Elected 17 April 1846, perpetual Fellow 5 April 1847: Dean of Chichester Cathedral .
The Rev. Charles Fox Burney – Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture from 1914, elected Fellow in 1919
Jeremy Catto – Fellow to 2006: British historian.
Thomas Kelly Cheyne – Fellow 1885 to 1905: English Biblical critic.
Richard William Church – Fellow 1838, Dean of St Paul's 1871–1890.
Arthur Hugh Clough – Elected 1 April 1842, perpetual Fellow 21 April 1843: English poet.
Thomas Cogan – physician, fellow in 1563, resigned his fellowship 1574
John Cook Wilson – Fellow in 1874, Wykeham Professor of Logic from 1889
Richard Alan Cross – Fellow, Professor of Medieval Theology and Tutor in Theology.
Henry William Carless Davis – Fellow 1925 to 1928: British historian, editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and Regius Professor of Modern History.
John Davison – clergyman and theological writer, Fellow 1800, and tutor at Oriel
George Anthony Denison – Elected 11 April 1828, perpetual Fellow 24 April 1829: English churchman, curate of Cuddesdon.
Frederick Dillistone – Dean of Liverpool (1956–1963), Fellow and Chaplain of Oriel (1964–70)
John Flemming – economist and Warden of Wadham College, Oxford , Lecturer and Fellow (1963–65)
James Fraser – Elected 24 April 1840, perpetual Fellow 1841, vacated fellowship 20 December 1861: Anglican Bishop of Manchester 1870 to 1885.
Hurrell Froude – Early leader of the Oxford Movement , Fellow in 1826.
Robert Fysher – Bodley's Librarian , Fellow in 1726
Vivian Hunter Galbraith – Fellow of the British Academy and Oxford Regius Professor of Modern History .
Eric Graham – priest, Fellow and Dean of Oriel
Alexander Grant, 10th Baronet – Elected 13 April 1849, perpetual Fellow 1 April 1850, vacated (married) 2 June 1860: British educationalist and Principal of the University of Edinburgh
Charles Edward Grey – Member of Parliament for Tynemouth and North Shields (1838–1841), elected in 1808
Dalziel Hammick – Chemist, Fellow (1920–1966)
John Harris – Bishop of Llandaff (1728–1738), Fellow in 1728
William Holt – Jesuit, elected on 29 February 1568
Simon Hornblower – Fellow until 1997, since when Professor of Classics and Grote Professor of Ancient History University College London
Robert Ingham – barrister and politician, Fellow from 1816 until 1826.
Richard William Jelf – Principal of King's College London , elected as Fellow in 1820.
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.
Richard Kilvington – philosopher.
Raymond Klibansky – Honorary Fellow, Canadian Philosopher.
William Lewis – mineralogist, elected 1871
Humphrey Lloyd – Bishop of Bangor from 1674 until 1689, Fellow in 1630.
Richard Mant – Fellow 1798: English churchman and writer.
Charles Marriott – priest and a member of the Oxford Movement , Fellow 1833
Basil Mitchell – British philosopher and Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, Fellow 1968.
John Henry Newman – Major figure in the Oxford Movement.
Thomas Nowell – clergyman, historian, fellow in 1753 and Dean 1758–1760 and in 1763.
Cadwallader Owen – Welsh clergyman, Fellow from 1585 to no later than 1606
Frederick York Powell – Fellow and Regius Professor of Modern History , 1894 to 1904
Edward Bouverie Pusey – One of the leaders of the Oxford Movement.
George Richards – priest, poet, Fellow 1790–1796
Samuel Rickards – priest, opponent of the Oxford Movement, Fellow from 16 April 1819 to 6 October 1822
Howard Robinson – philosopher, Fellow and lecturer in philosophy (1970–1974), Provost (Pro-Rector) of the Central European University .
John Robinson – Fellow, English diplomat, Bishop of Bristol and London .
Richard Robinson – Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy 1946–69, Author of An Atheists Values
John Rouse – second Bodley's Librarian , friend of John Milton , Fellow 1600.
A portrait of John Rouse in Oriel College
William Young Sellar – Fellow, Scottish classical scholar.
William Henry Stowe – scholar and journalist, Fellow March 1852
John Van Seters – Visiting Research Fellow (1985–86)
Thomas Vesey, 1st Baronet – Irish clergyman, Bishop of Ossory from 1714 to 1730
William Wand – Fellow and Dean from 1925: English born Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane , Australia.
Richard Whately – Undergraduate, Fellow 1811: English logician , economist and theological writer, Archbishop of Dublin
Robert Wilberforce – clergyman, writer, second son of William Wilberforce , Fellow 1826–1831.
John Wordsworth – Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture, Bishop of Salisbury .
Current fellows
Ordered by seniority of fellowship, oldest first;[5]
Francesco Cossiga
The following is a list of former and current Honorary Fellows who have not been included elsewhere in this article.[6] [7]
Sir Al Ainsley-Green , Children's Commissioner for England (2005–2009)
Anthony Barber, Baron Barber of Wentbridge , British Conservative politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer and member of the House of Lords .
Jonathan Barnes – scholar of ancient philosophy , Fellow (1968–78), elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1987.
James Barr – British Old Testament scholar.
Anthony Collett – author and writer on natural history .
Francesco Cossiga – Italian politician and former President of Italy , professor of law at University of Sassari .
Sir Zelman Cowen – Fellow 1947 to 1950, 19th Governor-General of Australia .
Sir Crispin Davis – businessman, former chief executive of Reed Elsevier .
Sir John Elliott – Eminent English historian and former Regius Professor of Modern History .
Robert John Weston Evans – Regius Professor of Modern History
Sir Ewen Fergusson – British diplomat, former ambassador to France.
Eric Foner – American historian, Bancroft Prize winner.
Robert Fox , British historian of science.
Charles Handy – management educator, author and philosopher.
Philip Harris, Baron Harris of Peckham – Conservative peer and businessman
John Hegarty – Irish physicist, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin (2001–2011)
Sir Michael Howard – military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War , Hon. Fellow and Regius Professor of Modern History , 1980 to 1989
Isobel, Lady Laing – wife of Kirby Laing, of the civil engineering company
Lee Seng Tee – Singaporean businessman and philanthropist.
David Manning – British Ambassador to the United States.
Colin Mayer – Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies at the Saïd Business School
Kenneth O. Morgan – Welsh historian and author
Paul Murphy – Secretary of State for Wales and former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland .
Keith Murray, Baron Murray of Newhaven – Graduate of Oriel, Agricultural academic, Rector of Lincoln College, Chancellor of Southampton University (1964–74)[8]
William Abel Pantin – historian, Fellow and Lecturer in History, Keeper of the Archives for the university, Hon. Fellow 1971.
Patrick Prendergast – Provost of Trinity College, Dublin
Thomas Symons – founding President of Trent University , Canada
John Vickers – economist and Warden of All Souls College, Oxford .
Norman Willis – Former General Secretary of the TUC and President of the European Trade Union Confederation .
Former Visiting Fellow:
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Richards, George Chatteron and Shadwell, Charles Lancelot, The Provosts and Fellows of Oriel College Oxford (1922) — Oxford Basil Blackwell . 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), pp. 119–129 ISBN 0-7129-1064-6 .