A list of notable people affiliated with Oriel College, Oxford University, England, including alumni, academics, provosts and honorary fellows.
Alumni
Academics
- Richard Ithamar Aaron â D.Phil student, graduated 1928: Welsh philosopher.
- Donald Ferlys Wilson Baden-Powell â Undergraduate 1917: Geologist and palaeolithic archeologist.
- Marius Barbeau â Rhodes Scholar 1907âÂÂ1910: Canadian ethnographer and folklorist.
- Geoffrey Barraclough â scholar in History 1926âÂÂ1929. Chichele Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford, 1970âÂÂ73.
- Harold Idris Bell â Adam de Brome scholar 1897, British papyrologist (specialising in Roman Egypt) and scholar of Welsh literature.
- Peter Brunt â Ancient historian.
- Anthony Collett â author and writer on natural history.
- Richard A. Epstein â American legal scholar
- Eric Foner â American historian, Bancroft Prize winner.
- Jeff Forshaw â Particle physicist, winner of the Maxwell Medal and Prize.
- James Anthony Froude â Undergraduate 1836 to 1840: English historian and Regius Professor of Modern History, 1892 to 1894.
- Robert Alfred Cloynes Godwin-Austen â Undergraduate 1826âÂÂ1830: English geologist, Fellow in 1830.
- Richard Heydarian â Filipino author and political scientist, recipient of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World award.
- Sir Francis Knowles, 5th Baronet â Archaeologist
- J. L. Mackie â Undergraduate 1938 to 1940: Australian Philosopher.
- James Meade â Undergraduate 1926 to 1930: Economist, Nobel Prize award winner.
- Edward Thomas Monro â Principal Physician of Bethlem Hospital from 1816.
- Henry Monro â President of the Medical Psychological Association in 1864âÂÂ1865.
- Thomas Monro â Principal Physician of Bedlam Hospital from 1816.
- Michael Moore â Professor of theoretical physics at the University of Manchester
- John Nunn â English chess player and mathematician
- Mark Pattison â Undergraduate 1832: English author and rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.
- Eduardo Peñalver â American law professor, President-elect of Seattle University, and Dean of Cornell Law School.
- Baden Powell â Undergraduate 1814 to 1817: Physicist and theologian, father of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout Movement.
- Paul Preston â Professor in International History at the London School of Economics; historian of modern Spain.
- Philip Russell, FRS â 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 â Historian and author.
- William David Ross â philosopher, Aristotelian scholar, Provost of Oriel College, Vice Chancellor of Oxford University.
- Rebecca Saxe â Undergraduate 1997âÂÂ2000, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT.
- Hugh Edwin Strickland â Undergraduate 1829: English geologist, ornithologist and systemist.
- Ronald Syme â New Zealand-born historian, was the pre-eminent classicist of the 20th century.
- A.J.P. Taylor â Undergraduate 1924 to 1927: Renowned British historian of the 20th century.
- Alexander Todd â Undergraduate 1931 to 1934: Chemist, Nobel Prize award winner.
- D. E. R. Watt â Scottish historian and Professor Emeritus at St Andrews University.
- Ronald Lampman Watts â Canadian academic and the 15th Principal and Vice-chancellor of Queen's University from 1974 until 1984.
- Miles Weatherall â Physician and research pharmacologist affiliated with London Hospital Medical College and Wellcome Research Laboratories.
- Gilbert White â Undergraduate 1739 to 1743, Fellow of the college 1744 to 1793. Pioneering naturalist and ornithologist.
Clergy
- William Allen â 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 â Undergraduate 1373: Son of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, with whom he erected the first college chapel. Chancellor of England and Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Godwin Birchenough â Dean of Ripon Cathedral.
- Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton â Churchman and translator of one of only two English translations of the Septuagint.
- Joseph Butler â Undergraduate 1715 to 1718, graduate until 1733: Bishop of Bristol and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral 1740, Bishop of Durham 1750.
- David Chillingworth â Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane 2005âÂÂ
- Nigel Cornwall â Bishop of Borneo 1949âÂÂ1962.
- Maxwell Craig â Minister of the Church of Scotland and General Secretary of Action of Churches Together in Scotland 1990âÂÂ1999.
- Harold de Soysa â Bishop of Colombo 1964âÂÂ1971.
- Frank Tracy Griswold â Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
- Gerald Edgcumbe Hadow â English Christian missionary to East Africa in the mid-twentieth century.
- Renn Hampden â Bampton lecturer in 1832, principal of St Mary Hall 1833, Bishop of Hereford 1847.
- David Hand â Bishop Coadjutor of New Guinea 1950âÂÂ1963, Archbishop of Papua New Guinea 1977âÂÂ1983
- James Hannington â Undergraduate 1868 to 1873: Missionary bishop.
- Michael Ipgrave â Bishop of Lichfield.
- George Wyndham Kennion â Anglican bishop of Adelaide and Bath and Wells.
- Edward King â Bishop of Lincoln 1885 to 1910.
- Edward Monro-High Church priest and writer.
- Thomas Mozley â English clergyman and writer.
- Reginald Pecock â Bishop of Chichester
- Iain Torrance â President of Princeton Theological Seminary and a former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
- Vernon White â MLitt in Theology 1980, now principal of STETS and Canon of Winchester
- Samuel Wilberforce â Undergraduate 1823 to 1826: Bishop of Oxford and Winchester. Opposed Darwin's theory of evolution in a famous debate with biologist Thomas Huxley.
Politicians
- Anthony Barber MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1970
- Alexander Hugh Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh â Scottish politician and statesman, Minister for Scotland 1895 to 1903.
- James Brudenell, 5th Earl of Cardigan â Member of Parliament and later peer.
- Donald Cameron â Member of the Scottish Parliament since 2016.
- Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim â Irish nobleman and politician.
- George Coldstream â Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office
- José AgustÃÂn de Lecubarri â Spanish diplomat and peer
- Peter Emery â Member of Parliament from 1959 to 2001, appointed Privy Counsellor in 1993.
- William Grant â Scottish MP (1955 to 1962) and judge. Lord Justice Clerk 1962 to 1972.
- George Wellesley Hamilton â Ontario political figure, Canadian Conservative MP from 1871 to 1874.
- William Gerard Hamilton â English Statesman, Chief Secretary for Ireland 1761 to 1764.
- Daniel Hannan â British politician and Conservative MEP (1999 to 2020).
- James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury â Foreign Secretary 1852 and 1858 to 1859, Lord Privy Seal 1866 to 1868 and 1874 to 1876.
- Alan Haselhurst â British politician â Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons 1997 to 2010, later a life peer.
- Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea â English statesman.
- Angus Maude â Conservative party MP from 1963 to 1983, Paymaster General from 1979 until 1981.
- Paul Murphy â Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (2002 to 2005) and for Wales (2008 to 2009), later a life peer.
- Wilfrid Normand, Baron Normand â Scottish politician and judge.
- Phillip Oppenheim â MP from 1983 to 1997, businessman, credited for introducing Mojitos to the UK.
- Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull â Member of parliament (1601) and hereditary peer.
- Cecil Rhodes â Undergraduate 1873, 1876 to 1878, 1881: Politician, businessman and the effective founder of the state of Rhodesia.
- Andrew Robathan â British Conservative politician, and Member of Parliament for Blaby.
- Thomas Sotheron-Estcourt â British politician, Home Secretary 1859.
- John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough â Undergraduate 1840: Lord President of the Council 1867; grandfather of Sir Winston Churchill.
- Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol â Lord Chancellor 1733 to 1737.
- Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot â Industrialist, Liberal Member of Parliament for Glamorgan for sixty years.
- William Vesey-FitzGerald â British politician, Governor of Bombay 1867 to 1872 and Member of Parliament for Horsham.
- Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk â Reich Minister of Finance 1932 to 1945, Leading Minister and de facto Chancellor of Germany 1945.
- Charles Wegg-Prosser â British politician and solicitor
Civil servants
Literary and performing artists
Lawyers, judges and statesmen
- Kwamena Bentsi-Enchill â judge and academic; justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana (1971âÂÂ1972)
- Geoffrey Bindman â human rights lawyer.
- Alexander Croke â British judge, colonial administrator and author influential in Nova Scotia of the early 19th century.
- Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron â Undergraduate 1710 to July 1713: friend and patron of George Washington.
- Sir Francis Ferris QC (1932âÂÂ2018) â High Court Judge (Chancery Division).
- George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen â British statesman and businessman.
- John Holt â Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 1689 to 1710.
- William Prynne â Graduated BA 1621; lawyer, author, polemicist.
- Walter Raleigh â Undergraduate 1572 to 1574: Courtier, statesman, scientist, writer, poet, spy, and explorer.
- A. N. Ray â Chief Justice of India (1973âÂÂ77). Studied modern history.
- William Scroggs â Undergraduate 1639 to c.1640: Lord Chief Justice over the Popish Plot.
Sports people
- Bernard Bosanquet â Undergraduate 1896 to 1899: Triple Blues, English test cricketer, inventor of the googly.
- George Bridgewater â New Zealand rower, Bronze medallist in the pair at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Charles Wreford-Brown â Captained the England national football team several times between 1894 and 1895, credited with inventing the word soccer.
- Robert Dickinson, Olympic athlete
- Peter Hackworth â British coxswain, cox of the 2002 Blue Boat
- Sjoerd Hamburger â Dutch rower, competed in the 2009 and 2010 Boat Races
- Harold Holding - Olympic athlete
- Malcolm Howard â Canadian rower, Olympic Gold medalist and 2014 OUBC President
- Chris Mahoney â British rower, Olympic Silver medalist in 1980
- Lucas McGee â American rower, USRowing Men's National Team coach
- Pete Reed â British rower, Olympic champion 2008, and world champion 2005/6.
- Plum Warner â Played first-class cricket for Oxford University, Middlesex and England.
Other people
Provosts
Fellows and lecturers
- James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce â Elected 25 April 1862, perpetual Fellow 6 April 1863, resigned June 1893, honorary fellow 12 October 1894: British jurist, historian and politician.
- John Burgon â Elected 17 April 1846, perpetual Fellow 5 April 1847: Dean of Chichester Cathedral.
- The Rev. Charles Fox Burney â Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture from 1914, elected Fellow in 1919
- Jeremy Catto â Fellow to 2006: British historian.
- Thomas Kelly Cheyne â Fellow 1885 to 1905: English Biblical critic.
- Richard William Church â Fellow 1838, Dean of St Paul's 1871âÂÂ1890.
- Arthur Hugh Clough â Elected 1 April 1842, perpetual Fellow 21 April 1843: English poet.
- Thomas Cogan â physician, fellow in 1563, resigned his fellowship 1574
- John Cook Wilson â Fellow in 1874, Wykeham Professor of Logic from 1889
- Richard Alan Cross â Fellow, Professor of Medieval Theology and Tutor in Theology.
- Henry William Carless Davis â Fellow 1925 to 1928: British historian, editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and Regius Professor of Modern History.
- John Davison â clergyman and theological writer, Fellow 1800, and tutor at Oriel
- George Anthony Denison â Elected 11 April 1828, perpetual Fellow 24 April 1829: English churchman, curate of Cuddesdon.
- Frederick Dillistone â Dean of Liverpool (1956âÂÂ1963), Fellow and Chaplain of Oriel (1964âÂÂ70)
- John Flemming â economist and Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, Lecturer and Fellow (1963âÂÂ65)
- James Fraser â Elected 24 April 1840, perpetual Fellow 1841, vacated fellowship 20 December 1861: Anglican Bishop of Manchester 1870 to 1885.
- Hurrell Froude â Early leader of the Oxford Movement, Fellow in 1826.
- Robert Fysher â Bodley's Librarian, Fellow in 1726
- Vivian Hunter Galbraith â Fellow of the British Academy and Oxford Regius Professor of Modern History.
- Eric Graham â priest, Fellow and Dean of Oriel
- Alexander Grant, 10th Baronet â 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 â Member of Parliament for Tynemouth and North Shields (1838âÂÂ1841), elected in 1808
- Dalziel Hammick â Chemist, Fellow (1920âÂÂ1966)
- John Harris â Bishop of Llandaff (1728âÂÂ1738), Fellow in 1728
- William Holt â Jesuit, elected on 29 February 1568
- Simon Hornblower â Fellow until 1997, since when Professor of Classics and Grote Professor of Ancient History University College London
- Robert Ingham â barrister and politician, Fellow from 1816 until 1826.
- Richard William Jelf â Principal of King's College London, elected as Fellow in 1820.
- John Keble â 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 â philosopher.
- Raymond Klibansky â Honorary Fellow, Canadian Philosopher.
- William Lewis â mineralogist, elected 1871
- Humphrey Lloyd â Bishop of Bangor from 1674 until 1689, Fellow in 1630.
- Richard Mant â Fellow 1798: English churchman and writer.
- Charles Marriott â priest and a member of the Oxford Movement, Fellow 1833
- Basil Mitchell â British philosopher and Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, Fellow 1968.
- John Henry Newman â Major figure in the Oxford Movement.
- Thomas Nowell â clergyman, historian, fellow in 1753 and Dean 1758âÂÂ1760 and in 1763.
- Cadwallader Owen â Welsh clergyman, Fellow from 1585 to no later than 1606
- Frederick York Powell â Fellow and Regius Professor of Modern History, 1894 to 1904
- Edward Bouverie Pusey â One of the leaders of the Oxford Movement.
- George Richards â priest, poet, Fellow 1790âÂÂ1796
- Samuel Rickards â priest, opponent of the Oxford Movement, Fellow from 16 April 1819 to 6 October 1822
- Howard Robinson â philosopher, Fellow and lecturer in philosophy (1970âÂÂ1974), Provost (Pro-Rector) of the Central European University.
- John Robinson â Fellow, English diplomat, Bishop of Bristol and London.
- Richard Robinson â Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy 1946âÂÂ69, Author of An Atheists Values
- John Rouse â second Bodley's Librarian, friend of John Milton, Fellow 1600.
- William Young Sellar â Fellow, Scottish classical scholar.
- William Henry Stowe â scholar and journalist, Fellow March 1852
- John Van Seters â Visiting Research Fellow (1985âÂÂ86)
- Thomas Vesey, 1st Baronet â Irish clergyman, Bishop of Ossory from 1714 to 1730
- William Wand â Fellow and Dean from 1925: English born Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane, Australia.
- Richard Whately â Undergraduate, Fellow 1811: English logician, economist and theological writer, Archbishop of Dublin
- Robert Wilberforce â clergyman, writer, second son of William Wilberforce, Fellow 1826âÂÂ1831.
- John Wordsworth â Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture, Bishop of Salisbury.
Current fellows
Ordered by seniority of fellowship, oldest first;
Honorary Fellows
The following is a list of former and current Honorary Fellows who have not been included elsewhere in this article.
- Sir Al Ainsley-Green, Children's Commissioner for England (2005âÂÂ2009)
- Anthony Barber, Baron Barber of Wentbridge, British Conservative politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer and member of the House of Lords.
- Jonathan Barnes â scholar of ancient philosophy, Fellow (1968âÂÂ78), elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1987.
- James Barr â British Old Testament scholar.
- Anthony Collett â author and writer on natural history.
- Francesco Cossiga â Italian politician and former President of Italy, professor of law at University of Sassari.
- Sir Zelman Cowen â Fellow 1947 to 1950, 19th Governor-General of Australia.
- Sir Crispin Davis â businessman, former chief executive of Reed Elsevier.
- Sir John Elliott â Eminent English historian and former Regius Professor of Modern History.
- Robert John Weston Evans â Regius Professor of Modern History
- Sir Ewen Fergusson â British diplomat, former ambassador to France.
- Eric Foner â American historian, Bancroft Prize winner.
- Robert Fox, British historian of science.
- Charles Handy â management educator, author and philosopher.
- Philip Harris, Baron Harris of Peckham â Conservative peer and businessman
- John Hegarty â Irish physicist, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin (2001âÂÂ2011)
- Sir Michael Howard â military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War, Hon. Fellow and Regius Professor of Modern History, 1980 to 1989
- Isobel, Lady Laing â wife of Kirby Laing, of the civil engineering company
- Lee Seng Tee â Singaporean businessman and philanthropist.
- David Manning â British Ambassador to the United States.
- Colin Mayer â Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies at the Saïd Business School
- Kenneth O. Morgan â Welsh historian and author
- Paul Murphy â Secretary of State for Wales and former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
- Keith Murray, Baron Murray of Newhaven â Graduate of Oriel, Agricultural academic, Rector of Lincoln College, Chancellor of Southampton University (1964âÂÂ74)
- William Abel Pantin â historian, Fellow and Lecturer in History, Keeper of the Archives for the university, Hon. Fellow 1971.
- Patrick Prendergast â Provost of Trinity College, Dublin
- Thomas Symons â founding President of Trent University, Canada
- John Vickers â economist and Warden of All Souls College, Oxford.
- Norman Willis â Former General Secretary of the TUC and President of the European Trade Union Confederation.
Former Visiting Fellow:
References
- Rannie, David, Oriel College (1900) â 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 â Oxford University Press VCH series, (1954), pp. 119âÂÂ129 .