List of alumni of Exeter College, Oxford
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Exeter College, Oxford is one of the colleges of the University of Oxford. Those educated at the college include:
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Clergy
- James Aitken (1829-1908), clergyman and sportsman - competed in the Varsity cricket match three times and the 1849 Boat Race
- James Aitken (d 1687), Bishop of Galloway
- The Revd E. E. Bradford (1860–1944), priest and Uranian poet
- The Revd Dr Thomas Bradley (1596/7-1673), priest
- Harold Davidson (1875–1937), Anglican priest
- Charles Littlehales (1871–1945), cricketer and clergyman[1][2]
- Thomas Tregosse (c. 1600 - c. 1670), Puritan minister
- Tom Wright (1948- ), Bishop of Durham
- Benjamin Wills Newton (1807–1899), evangelist and theologian
Politicians
- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (1621–1683), politician
- Dick Celeste (1937- ), Governor of Ohio and US Ambassador to India [3]
- Sir John Eliot (1592–1632), statesman
- Humayun Kabir (1906–1969), Education Minister of India
- Liaquat Ali Khan (1896–1951), politician and the first Prime Minister of Pakistan
- John Kufuor (1938- ), President of Ghana
- Patrick Mercer, disgraced Member of Parliament
- Sir Nicholas Slanning (1606–1643), Cornish MP and Civil War officer (royalist)
- Peter Truscott (1959- ), politician
- John Maynard (MP) (1602–1690), 17th century lawyer and politician
- Sir Hugh Acland, 5th Baronet (1639-1714), Member of Parliament
Jurisprudence
- Michael Fysh QC, SC (1940-), barrister and judge of the Patents County Court
- Herbert Edmund-Davies (1906–1992), judge
- John Fortescue (c.1394-c.1480), jurist
- Kenneth Hayne (1945- ), judge of the High Court of Australia
- Sydney Kentridge (1922- ), barrister and judge
- Sir John Laws (1945- ), Lord Justice of Appeal and constitutional theorist
- William Noy (1577–1634), lawyer and Attorney General to Charles I
- Julius Stone (1907–1985), legal theorist
- Murray Tobias (1939- ), judge of the New South Wales Court of Appeal
- J. C. H. James (1841–1899), public servant and magistrate of Western Australia
Other public offices
- David Warren, diplomat
- Sir Robert Mark Russell (1929-2005), British Diplomat
- Major Thomas Close Smith (1878-1946), High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, 1942[4]
Academics
- John M Gray, FBA PhD Professor of Education, University of Cambridge
- Michael O'Neill (1953- ), academic
- Magdi Wahba, (1925–1991), Egyptian academic, Lexicographer
- Qian Zhongshu (1910–1998), Chinese literary scholar
- Ian Maddieson (1942-), phonetician
Science and medicine
- John Lane Bell (1945- ), mathematician and philosopher
- Sydney Brenner (1927- ), 2002 Nobel Laureate in the category "physiology or medicine"
- Edgar F. Codd (1923–2003), inventor of the Relational Database
- Michael Efroimsky (1962 - ), astronomer
- Richard Chorley (1927-2002), geographer
- E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902–1973), social anthropologist
- Charles Lyell (1797–1875), geologist
- Brian John Marples (1907–1997), zoologist[5]
- Arthur Peacocke (1924–2006), biochemist and theologian
- Malachy Hitchins (1741 - 1809 ), astronomer and mathematician
Artists, composers, writers and entertainers
- Tariq Ali (1943- ), writer and filmmaker
- Martin Amis (1949- ), novelist
- R. D. Blackmore (1825–1900), author of Lorna Doone
- Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898), artist
- John Ford (1586-c.1640?), dramatist
- James Hamilton-Paterson, novelist and poet
- Lady Flora McDonnell (1963- ), children's author
- William Morris (1834–1896), writer, designer and socialist
- Philip Pullman (1946- ), author of His Dark Materials
- Paul William Roberts (1927- ), novelist, journalist, travel writer, Middle East expert
- Will Self (1961- ), novelist
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
- Alan Bennett (1934- ), author and actor
- Richard Burton (1925–1984), actor
- Imogen Stubbs (1961- ), actress
- Mark Labbett (1965- ), Quiz player
- Alfred Noyes (1880–1958), poet
- S.E. Cottam, poet, priest and publisher
- Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897), critic and poet
- John Gardner (1917- ), composer
- Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848–1918), composer
Historians
- Correlli Barnett (1927- ), military historian
- Peter Brock (1920–2006), historian
- Robin Bush (1943–2010), Time Team historian
- Rev Nicolas Tindal (1687–1774), historian
Philosophers
- Garrett Barden - philosopher (1939- )
- Christopher Peacocke (1950- ), philosopher
- John Gray (1948- ), (LSE) philosopher
Sportsmen
- Roger Bannister (1929- ), athlete
- John Knapp (1841–1881), cricketer
- Claude Wilson (1858–1881), footballer
- Jack Lovelock (1910-1949), athlete
Media
- Reeta Chakrabarti (1964- ), BBC Political Correspondent
- Russell Harty (1934–1988), television presenter
- Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr. (1946- ), media executive and former newspaper publisher
- Robert Robinson, television presenter
- Ned Sherrin (1931–2007), broadcaster, author and stage director
- Wynford Vaughan-Thomas (1908–1987), broadcaster
- Roger Alton (1947- ), journalist and newspaper editor
Other alumni
- Ronald Cohen (1945- ), businessman
- Joseph Nye (1937- ), political scientist
- David Michael Webb (1965- ), corporate and economic governance activist
- Mark Allen (1950- ), businessman and former British spy
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See also
References
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- ↑ [1] Colorado College, President's Biography. Retrieved 1 September 2013
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 35508. p. 1453. 31 March 1942.
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