Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol College, founded in 1263, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

Traditionally, the undergraduates are amongst the most politically active in the university, and the college's alumni include several former prime ministers. Balliol attracts more international students than the other undergraduate colleges.

During Benjamin Jowett's Mastership in the 19th century, the College rose from its relative obscurity to occupy the first rank of colleges, and indeed continues to play a prominent role. Herbert Asquith once described Balliol men as possessing "the tranquil consciousness of an effortless superiority".

Table of contents

1 History 2 Notable Former Students 2.1 Politics 2.2 Letters / Arts 2.3 Poetry 2.4 Philosophy 2.5 Economics 2.6 Law 2.7 Science 2.8 History 2.9 Religion 2.10 Media 2.11 Other 3 Academics/Teachers 4 Notable applicants who were not matriculated (public domain information) 5 Fictional Balliol 6 External link

History

Notable Former Students

Politics

• Leopold Stennett Amery
• Herbert Asquith
• Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin
• George Nathaniel Curzon
• Dingle Foot
• Bryan Gould
• Jo Grimond
• Harald V of Norway
• Denis Healey
• Edward Heath
• Tuanku Jaafar
• Roy Jenkins
• Boris Johnson
• Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne
• Seretse Khama
• Crawford Murray MacLehose
• Harold Macmillan
• Vincent Massey
• Alfred Milner
• Walter Monckton
• Harold Nicolson
• Stafford Northcote
• Masako Owada
• King Olav V of Norway
• Chris Patten
• Arthur Wellesley Peel, 1st Viscount Peel
• Herbert Louis Samuel
• Paul Sarbanes
• George Stephanopoulos
• Dick Taverne
• Stephen Twigg
• Adam von Trott zu Solz
• William Waldegrave

Letters / Arts

• Archibald Alison
• John Churton Collins
• Cyril Connolly
• Robertson Davies
• Robinson Ellis
• John Evelyn
• Henry Watson Fowler
• Graham Greene
• Aldous Huxley
• Sidney Lee
• John Gibson Lockhart
• Howard Marks
• David Binning Monro
• John Nichol
• Anthony Powell
• John Campbell Shairp
• Nevil Shute
• George Steiner
• John Addington Symonds
• Laurence Whistler

Poetry

• Matthew Arnold
• Hilaire Belloc
• Andrew Cecil Bradley
• Charles Stuart Calverley
• Sydney Bertram Carter
• Arthur Hugh Clough
• Julian Grenfell
• Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Andrew Lang
• Francis Turner Palgrave
• Christopher Ricks
• William Young Sellar
• Robert Southey
• Eric Stenbock
• Patrick Shaw-Stewart
• Algernon Swinburne

Philosophy

• J. L. Austin
• Roy Bhaskar
• Thomas Hill Green
• William Hamilton
• Peter Geach
• Stuart Hampshire
• R. M. Hare
• John Lucas
• Richard Lewis Nettleship
• David George Ritchie
• Bernard Williams
• Richard Wollheim

Economics

• William Beveridge
• Gavyn Davies
• Francis Edgeworth
• John Hicks
• Walter Rostow
• Adam Smith

Law

• Henry Bathurst
• Thomas Bingham
• Charles Bowen
• George Carman
• Joseph Chitty
• John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge
• Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry
• Charles Isaac Elton
• Brian Hutton
• Roger Ludlow
• Theodore Tylor

Science

• Baruch Blumberg
• E. J. Bowen
• James Bradley
• Richard Dawkins
• Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
• R. V. Jones
• Anthony Leggett
• William Spottiswoode

History

• Donald Creighton
• Charles Harding Firth
• Christopher Hill
• Harold James Ruthven Murray
• Arnold J. Toynbee

Religion

• Lionel Blue
• Israel Brodie
• John Douglas
• Shogi Effendi
• Frederick William Faber
• Cardinal Heard
• Ronald Knox
• Cosmo Lang
• Henry Edward Cardinal Manning
• Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
• Archibald Campbell Tait
• Frederick Temple
• William Temple
• John Wycliffe

Media

• David Astor
• Maurice Gorham
• John Keegan
• Raymond Massey
• William Rees-Mogg
• John Schlesinger
• Peter Snow
• Hugo Young

Other

• Nicola Horlick
• John Aiden Liddell V.C. M.C.
• William Monson
• Nawab of Pataudi
• Richard Sharp
• John Templeton

Academics/Teachers

• Lewis Campbell
• Thomas Kelly Cheyne
• Benjamin Jowett
• Ralph Wheeler Robert Lingen, 1st Baron Lingen
• Herman Merivale
• Alvin Plantinga
• Arthur Prior
• Roy Ridley
• Arnold Toynbee
• William George Ward
• Mike Woodin

Notable applicants who were not matriculated (public domain information)

• Daniel Cohn-Bendit
• Tony Blair
• Bill Clinton
• Colin McGinn
• Lytton Strachey
• A. Hyatt Mayor

Fictional Balliol

• (Dorothy L. Sayers attributes a Balliol undergraduateship to her fictional character, Lord Peter Wimsey)

• Yes Minister Sir Humphrey Appleby, the wily civil servant went to Balliol (pronounced Baillie in the television programme) from where he got an MA. He went on to join the Civil Service. Having served in the War Office and seconded to the Scottish Office, he joined the Department for Administrative Affairs, eventually becoming Permanent Secretary. When Sir Arnold retired, he was appointed Cabinet Secretary. He went on to become Master of Balliol College when he retired from the Service. Sir Arnold Robinson, also a Balliol man, was Sir Humphrey's predecesser as Cabinet Secretary. After stepping down as Cabinet Secretary, he joined the Campaign for Freedom of Information, to ensure that that freedom was not abused.

External link

• Official Website

Colleges of the University of Oxford

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Permanent Private Halls at the University of Oxford

Blackfriars | Campion Hall; | Greyfriars | Regent's Park College | St Benet's Hall; | St Stephen's House; | Wycliffe Hall;