List of alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
This is a list of notable alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Notable former students
Academics
- Max Beloff, Baron Beloff – historian and Conservative peer
- Isaiah Berlin – social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
- G. E. Berrios – professor of psychiatry at Cambridge University
- Charles Otto Blagden – linguist
- William Buckland - geologist and palaeontologist
- John Y. Campbell – economist
- Edmund Kerchever Chambers – literary scholar
- Steven Cowley FRS - theoretical physicist (and current President of Corpus).
- Thomas James Dunbabin – classicist scholar and archaeologist
- Henry Furneaux – classical scholar specialising in Tacitus
- Herbert Paul Grice – philosopher of language
- Francesca Happé - professor of cognitive neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
- William V. Harris - William R. Shepherd of History at Columbia University
- Charles Henderson – historian of Cornwall
- Richard Hooker – 16th century theologian
- Jonathan A. Jones - Professor of Physics, Oxford University[1]
- Clyde Kluckhohn – American Rhodes Scholar, anthropologist
- Patrick McTaggart-Cowan – Canadian meteorologist and the first president of Simon Fraser University
- Roger Moorey – antiquarian and former Keeper of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum
- Thomas Nagel – American philosopher whose main areas of interest are philosophy of mind, political philosophy and ethics
- Henry Nettleship – classical scholar
- J. I. Packer – British-born Canadian Christian theologian
- Edward Pococke – Orientalist and biblical scholar
- Robert Proctor – Bibliographer
- John Rainolds – academic and churchman
- Boris Rankov – professor of Roman history at Royal Holloway, University of London
- Basil William Robinson - Asian art scholar and author
- John Ruskin – art critic, watercolourist, prominent social thinker and philanthropist
- Gail Trimble – senior faculty member in Classics at Trinity College, Oxford
- Tsatsu Tsikata – former University of Ghana law lecturer and head of Ghana National Petroleum Company
- Juan Luis Vives - scholar and humanist
- Sir Bernard Williams - moral philosopher, former Provost of King's College, Cambridge
Educators
- Thomas Arnold - educator and historian, headmaster of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841
- Sir John Francis Lockwood Master of Birkbeck College, London, 1951–1965; Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, 1955-1958
- John Rosewell - Headmaster of Eton College
Musicians, artists and writers
Martin Wolf.
- Al Alvarez – poet, novelist, essayist and critic
- Lucy Atkins – journalist and author[2]
- Gerard Baker – editor-in-chief, Wall Street Journal [3]
- Alex Bellos – journalist and author[4]
- Patrick Bishop – journalist and author[5]
- Ian Bostridge – tenor singer
- Robert Bridges – British poet, and poet laureate from 1913 to 1930.
- Geoff Dyer – writer
- Richard Edwardes – writer and composer
- Toby Harnden – journalist and author[6]
- Alfred William Hunt – painter
- Charles H. M. Kerr – artist
- Robert Liddell – literary critic, biographer, novelist, travel writer and poet
- Camilla Long – The Sunday Times journalist[7]
- Henry Newbolt – poet, novelist and historian
- C. P. Scott – journalist, publisher and politician
- Vikram Seth – Indian novelist and poet
- Nicholas Udall – playwright, cleric, and schoolmaster
- Jane Wilson-Howarth – author
Politicians, civil servants and lawyers
Ed Miliband.
- Ben Cannon – American teacher and politician from Oregon
- Chen Show Mao – Singaporean Rhodes Scholar, corporate lawyer and Singapore Member of Parliament
- Gerard Clauson – British civil servant, businessman, and orientalist
- David Curry – British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Skipton and Ripon from 1987 to 2010
- David Hartley – signatory to the Treaty of Paris
- Stephen Lovegrove – civil servant and the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence.
- David Miliband – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (2007—2010) and Labour leadership candidate (September 2010)
- Ed Miliband – Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (2008—2010) and Labour leader
- David Normington – Permanent Secretary at the Home Office
- Sir Christopher Nugee QC - High Court judge
- James Oglethorpe – British general, Member of Parliament, philanthropist, and founder of the colony of Georgia.
- Richard Pate – landowner and Member of Parliament for Gloucester in the Parliament of 1559 and 1563-1567
- William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill – Conservative politician who served in the Cabinet (1990–1997)
Clergy
Cardinal Reginald Pole.
- John Keble – churchman and poet, gave his name to Keble College, Oxford
- Henry Phillpotts – Anglican Bishop of Exeter from 1830 to 1869
- Reginald Pole – cardinal, last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury
Broadcasters and entertainers
- Michael Cockerell – political commentator and broadcaster
- Kenneth Kendall – BBC newscaster
Other people
- Sam Kay – caused the college's University Challenge 2009 team to be disqualified as champions
- Hector Sants – Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Services Authority (2007—2012)
- Michael Spencer – businessman; the chief executive of ICAP plc
- Nicholas Wadham – benefactor of Wadham College, Oxford.
In chronological order
- (1500–1558) Reginald Pole
- (1504–1556) Nicholas Udall
- (1516–1588) Richard Pate
- (1525-1566) Richard Edwardes
- (ca. 1530–1600) William Cole
- (ca. 1531–1609) Nicholas Wadham
- (1549–1607) John Rainolds
- (1554–1600) Richard Hooker
- (1604–1691) Edward Pococke
- (ca. 1635–1684) John Rosewell
- (1696–1785) James Oglethorpe
- (1732–1813) David Hartley (the Younger)
- (1733–1810) Thomas Hornsby
- (1778–1869) Henry Phillpotts
- (1787-1856) William Buckland
- (1792–1866) John Keble
- (1795–1842) Thomas Arnold
- (1819–1900) John Ruskin
- (1829–1900) Henry Furneaux
- (1830–1896) Alfred William Hunt
- (1839–1893) Henry Nettleship
- (1844–1930) Robert Bridges
- (1846–1932) C. P. Scott
- (1862–1938) Henry Newbolt
- (1866–1954) E. K. Chambers
- (1900–1933) Charles Henderson
- (1905–1960) Clyde Kluckhohn
- (1909–1997) Isaiah Berlin
- (1912–1997) Patrick McTaggart-Cowan
- (1913–1988) Paul Grice
- (1913–1999) Max Beloff
- (1915–2012) J. O. Urmson
- (1920–2002) Jim Mauldon
- (1920–2010) Kenneth Dover
- (born 1926) J. I. Packer
- (1929–2003) Bernard Williams
- (born 1929) Al Alvarez
- (1937–2004) Roger Moorey
- (born July 1937) Thomas Nagel
- (born December 1937) Sunanda K. Datta-Ray
- (born 1940) G. E. Berrios
- (born August 1940) Michael Cockerell
- (1943–2007) Andrew Glyn
- (born 1944) David Curry
- (born 1946) William Waldegrave
- (born 1946) Martin Wolf
- (born 1947) Peter Lampl
- (born 1950) Tsatsu Tsikata
- (born 1952) David Normington
- (born 1952) Vikram Seth
- (born 1954) Jane Wilson-Howarth
- (born 1954) Boris Rankov
- (born 1955) Michael Spencer
- (born 1958) Geoff Dyer
- (born 1964) Ian Bostridge
- (born 1965) David Miliband
- (born 1966) Toby Harnden
- (born 1969) Ed Miliband
- (born 1976) Ben Cannon
- (born 1982) Gail Trimble
Fellows and academics
- Michael Brock CBE - historian, Fellow
- William Cole - clergyman, President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Dean of Lincoln
- Sunanda K. Datta-Ray - Indian newspaperman and journalist, supernumerary fellow
- Roman Divalenti - American writer, editor, and author
- Sir Kenneth Dover - classical scholar and academic, President of Corpus Christi College (1981–2005)
- Henry Furneaux - classical scholar specialising in Tacitus
- Andrew Glyn - Fellow and Tutor in Economics
- Sir Brian Harrison - editor, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Thomas Hornsby - astronomer and mathematician, Fellow 1760
- Jim Mauldon - Fellow, Tutor in Mathematics, Dean
- Edward Pococke - orientalist and biblical scholar, Fellow (1682)
- J. O. Urmson - philosopher and classicist, Fellow
See also
- Former students of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
References
- ↑ http://users.ox.ac.uk/~jajones/
- ↑ http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/life/focus/10959618.print/
- ↑ https://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/Mr-Gerard-Baker/
- ↑ http://www.baldinicastoldi.it/autori/alex-bellos/
- ↑ http://www.patrickbishop.net/Biography.html
- ↑ http://www.tobyharnden.com/tobyharnden_abouttoby/
- ↑ http://rt.com/op-edge/201547-russell-brand-media-elite-british/
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