List of alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
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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.
Contents
Politicians, civil servants and Parliamentarians
Four Magdalen alumni were members of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition Cabinet 2010-15:[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
- The Honourable George Brandis QC, Australian Attorney-General, 2013 to present
- 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.
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
- Basil Jellicoe, missioner to Canning Town
- 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
- William Tyndale, English Reformer, Linguistic Genius, Theologian
- 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
- Larry Siedentop, political philosopher.
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
- Adam Roberts (scholar), professor of international relations
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
- Frank Robinson Hartley, chemist, Vice Chancellor Cranfield University
- 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
- John Thornhill, deputy editor of the Financial Times
- 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
- T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935) 'Lawrence of Arabia'
- 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
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