List of alumni of Exeter College, Oxford

Exeter College, Oxford is one of the colleges of the University of Oxford. Those educated at the college include:

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
• Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (1938– ), President of Peru
• 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
• Alexander John Milne (1929-1993], Judge President of Natal Provincial Division, then to Appeal Court, South Africa

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
• Ian Maddieson (1942–), phonetician
• Michael O'Neill (1953– ), academic
• Magdi Wahba, (1925–1991), Egyptian academic, Lexicographer
• Robert J.C. Young (1950-), FBA, Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature, New York University
• Qian Zhongshu (1910–1998), Chinese literary scholar

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
• Francis Turville-Petre (1901–1941), archaeologist and excavator of the Galilee Man

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

See also

• List of Rectors of Exeter College, Oxford

References

External links

• College history