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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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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

Political journalists

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Robert Peston, ITV Political editor

Poets

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Hilaire Belloc
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Literary scholars

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George Steiner 1950 comparative literature Rhodes Scholar, Hon. Fellow

Professor at Geneva, Oxford, Harvard

Polyglot and polymath

 [6]: 515 
David Daiches 1934 literary history Fellow

A Critical History of English Literature
The Penguin Companion to Literature

 [6]: 120 
John Livingston Lowes 1930 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Geoffrey Chaucer		 first Eastman Professor

taught at Washington University St Louis, and Harvard

 [7]: 65 
Cyril Connolly 1922 literary critic Enemies of Promise [7]: 25 
Logan Pearsall Smith 1887 essayist Words and Idioms

"The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood."

 [8]: 21 
Henry Watson Fowler 1880 lexicographer A Dictionary of Modern English Usage

Concise Oxford English Dictionary

"a lexicographical genius" (The Times)

 [8]: 7 
Henry Sweet 1869 phoneticist A Handbook of Phonetics [9]: 63 
John Churton Collins 1867 literary critic Professor, Birmingham

The Study of English Literature

"a louse in the locks of literature" (Tennyson)

 [9]: 52 
John Nichol 1855 literary critic Regius Professor of English Literature, Glasgow

Byron, Burns, Carlyle

 [9]: 15 
Herbert Coleridge 1847 philologist editor Oxford English Dictionary [9]: 5 

Newspaper editors

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Television and film

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Peter Snow, television presenter

Security, Military and Intelligence

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John Aidan Liddell VC MC

Educators and school teachers

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Nick Bevan 1960 Shiplake College headmaster [6]: 41 
Alec Peterson 1926 International Baccalaureate head of Oxford University Department of Education [7]: 47 
John Fulton 1923 British Council chair of British Council [7]: 29 
Robert Birley 1922 Charterhouse
Eton College		 headmaster
professor, City University		 [7]: 24 
Sir Henry Marten 1891 Eton College Provost of Eton

tutor to Princess Elizabeth later Queen Elizabeth II

 [8]: 33 
Richard Powell Francis 1879 Brisbane Grammar School first Australian to graduate from Balliol [9]: 117 [12]
George Ferris Whidborne Mortimer 1823 City of London School headmaster

Abolitionist
"The Immediate Abolition of Slavery Compatible with the Safety and Prosperity of the Colonies" (1833)

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Richard Jenkyns 1800 Balliol College Master, educational innovator [14]

Social and political theorists

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Philanthropists

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Colonial administrators

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Theologians and clergy

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

Sport

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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".[24] The current Master of Balliol is Helen Ghosh.[25]

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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. ^ "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22543. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. ^ a b c Balliol College Register (Seventh Edition) by Tom Bewley and John Jones. 2005.
  7. ^ a b c d e Balliol College Register (Fifth Edition)
  8. ^ a b c Balliol College Register (Third Edition) by Ivo Elliott 1953
  9. ^ a b c d e Balliol College Register (Second Edition) by Ivo Elliott 1934
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ "Foulkes, Sir Nigel (Gordon)" in Who's Who online, accessed 21 October 2023 (subscription required)
  12. ^ "Memorial inscriptions". Balliol College Archives & Manuscripts. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  13. ^ George Mortimer ODNB
  14. ^ Richard Jenkyns ODNB
  15. ^ https://www.alumniweb.ox.ac.uk/balliol/about-the-westerman-pathfinders
  16. ^ ONDB
  17. ^ "William A. Coolidge".
  18. ^ https://www.alumniweb.ox.ac.uk/balliol/about-the-westerman-pathfinders
  19. ^ "William A. Coolidge Dies; Sheehan Gathering". 3 June 1992.
  20. ^ "Archives & Manuscripts - Memorial inscriptions". Balliol College. 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  21. ^ Selinger-Morris, Samantha (12 August 2020). "Who is Maxwell and what is she charged with?". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  22. ^ Avrion, Mitchison. "Getting into New College, Oxford". Web of Stories. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
  23. ^ 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.
  24. ^ Statute II "The Master", clause 1
  25. ^ "Election of New Master". Balliol College, Oxford. 18 March 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
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