List of Balliol College people

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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. More than one in twenty Balliol alumni are listed in Who's Who.[citation needed] 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]

Alumni

Economists

Adam Smith.

Historians

James H. Billington.

Lawyers

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

Authors and artists

Henry Sweet.
Aldous Huxley.

Mathematicians, scientists and technologists

Richard Dawkins.

Media

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Robert Peston, BBC Business editor
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Peter Snow, television presenter
Christopher Hitchens

Other

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Arthur Rhys Davids.

Philosophers

Poets

Hilaire Belloc.
Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Politicians

Currently active

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Boris Johnson, Mayor Of London.
Yvette Cooper, British Labour politician, former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

Members of Parliament

House of Lords

MPs who completed service after 2000

UK politicians active post-World War II

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

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

UK politicians pre-World War I

Politicians, statesmen and monarchs in non-UK countries

Richard von Weizsäcker.

Theologians and clergy

John Wycliffe.
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Cardinal Manning.
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Shoghi Effendi Rabbani, The head of the Bahá'í Faith (1921-1957).

Fictional

Notable applicants who were not matriculated

Balliol Chancellors of Oxford University

Masters of Balliol

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Main article: List of Masters of Balliol College

Balliol College, Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, 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".[8] The current Master of Balliol is Drummond Bone, a scholar of the Romantic poet Lord Byron. He has held the post since October 2011, following his retirement as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool in 2008.[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.(1914, covering matriculations 1832-1914)
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.(1934, covering matriculations 1833-1933)
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.(1953, covering matriculations 1900-1950)
  4. ↑ 'RIDLEY, Sir Adam (Nicholas)', in Who's Who 2014 (London: A. & C. Black, 2014)
  5. ↑ '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)
  6. ↑ http://www.usbornefamilytree.com/peter1937.htm
  7. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.; CP 40 / 677; in 1430; Thomas Chace appears as first name, but as defendant in a case of debt, brought by Thomas Coventre.
  8. ↑ Statute II "The Master", clause 1
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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