List of Wadham College people
A list of Wadham College, Oxford people, including alumni, Fellows, Deans and Wardens of the College. An alphabetical list of alumni of Wadham college can be found here.
Alumni
Academics
- Charles Badham, classics scholar
- Owen Barfield, philosopher, author, poet, and critic
- William Bayliss, physiologist
- Edward Spencer Beesly, historian and positivist
- Henry de Beltgens Gibbins, economic historian
- Richard Bentley, scholar and critic
- Alan Bullock, historian of Nazi Germany
- Robert Caesar Childers, Pali Language Scholar
- Peter Day, inorganic chemist
- Edward Gordon Duff, bibliographer and librarian
- Marcus du Sautoy, mathematician
- E.B. Ford, ecological geneticist
- Thomas Guidott, physician
- J. W. Harris, legal scholar, Professor of the London School of Economics and Fellow of the British Academy
- Robert Hooke, architect, natural philosopher, scientist, polymath, co-founder of the Royal Society
- Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, architect
- Ian Grant, physicist
- James Jago, physician
- Benjamin Kennicott, Hebrew scholar
- John Leslie, philosopher
- P. J. Marshall, historian of the British empire in the 18th century
- John Mayow, chemist, physician, and physiologist
- Alister McGrath, Christian apologist and theologian
- Frank McLynn, historian and biographer
- Nevil Story Maskelyne, geologist and politician
- Charles Morton, educator
- Peter Nailor, civil servant, intellectual and professor
- Farhan Nizami, scholar in Islamic studies
- Tony Orchard, inorganic chemist
- Stuart J. Russell, computer scientist
- Thomas Sprat, divine and co-founder of the Royal Society
- Rex Warner, classicist, writer and translator
- Sir Christopher Wren, architect and co-founder of the Royal Society
- William Rickatson Dykes, schoolteacher and plant breeder
Authors, artists, broadcasters and entertainers
- Monica Ali, novelist
- Hossein Amini, film director and screenplay writer
- Lindsay Anderson, film director
- Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
- Melvyn Bragg, television broadcaster & writer
- Simon Brett, writer
- Jess Cartner-Morley, fashion editor of The Guardian newspaper
- Andy Cato, of Groove Armada
- Alan Connor, journalist and television presenter
- David Constantine, poet and translator
- Alan Coren, comic writer
- Robert Crampton, Times journalist
- Cecil Day-Lewis, former Poet Laureate
- James Flint, writer
- Isabel Fonseca, writer
- Neil Forrester, Artist and subject of The Real World TV show (London series)
- Jonathan Freedland, journalist
- Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet and playwright
- John Gross, author and literary critic
- Tom Gross, journalist and political commentator
- Francis Wrigley Hirst, journalist
- Felicity Jones, actress
- Reginald Victor Jones, physicist, scientific military intelligence expert and writer
- Michael Kenyon, novelist
- Hari Kunzru, novelist
- Tim McInnerny, actor and comedian
- Patrick Marber, comedian and playwright
- Sharon Mascall, journalist, broadcaster and writer
- Jodhi May, actress
- Hilary Menos, poet
- Roger Mosey, BBC executive, Director of London 2012 Olympic Games coverage
- Iain Pears, novelist
- Laurie Penny, author and social activist
- Rosamund Pike, actress
- Tony Richardson, English theatre and Academy Award-winning film director and producer
- Michael Rosen, poet and broadcaster
- Peter Sculthorpe, composer
- Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet, wit, dramatist and politician
- Mary Ann Sieghart, former assistant editor of The Times
- Leonard Strong, novelist, critic, historian and poet
Clive Syddall, Television Producer and journalist
- William Walsh, poet and critic
- Irving Wardle, theatre critic
- John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, libertine poet and protégé of King Charles II
- Anne McElvoy, journalist and broadcaster
Clergy
- Adrian Benjamin, clergyman and former actor
- Cornelius Burges, minister
- Richard William Church, churchman and writer
- Thomas Crofts, clergyman
- Robert Deakin, clergyman
- Joseph Diggle, clergyman, politician and public servant
- Edward Feild, clergyman
- Giles Fraser, Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral
- Walsham How, clergyman
- Francis Jayne, clergyman
- Hewlett Johnson, clergyman
- Francis Kilvert, clergyman and diarist
- Alexander Mackonochie, mission priest
- Thomas Manton, clergyman
- Edward Garrard Marsh, poet and clergyman
- John Medley, first Bishop of Fredericton
- Samuel Parker, clergyman
- Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury
Politicians and civil servants
- Michael Alison, politician
- Thomas Baring (1831–1891), politician
- Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury, former Lord Chancellor
- Robert Blake, Cromwell's admiral
- Hugh Childers, statesman
- Derek Enright, politician
- Charles Fane, 1st Viscount Fane, politician
- Bernard Floud, politician
- Peter Floud, civil servant
- Michael Foot, politician
- William Fox, premier of New Zealand
- Penaia Ganilau, former Governor General and President of Fiji
- Neil Gerrard, politician
- Tuanku Abdul Halim, Sultan of Kedah, The King of Malaysia (1970–1975) and (2011-now)
- Avraham Harman, Israeli diplomat
- Evan Harris, former Liberal Democrat MP for Oxford West and Abingdon
- Kenneth Maddocks, former Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Fiji
- Kamisese Mara, former Prime Minister and President of Fiji
- Duncan Menzies, Lord Menzies, judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland
- Robert Moses, city planner
- Michael Nolan, Baron Nolan, judge, first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life (1994-1997), Chancellor of the University of Essex (1997–2002)
- Arthur Onslow, former Speaker of the House of Commons
- Edward Phelips, politician
- Carew Raleigh, politician
- Emma Reynolds, MP
- Wasim Sajjad, two time interim President of Pakistan and Former Chairman Senate
- John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, former Lord Chancellor
- F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, former Lord Chancellor
- K. N. Wanchoo, former Chief Justice of India
- Henry Penruddocke Wyndham, politician, topographer and author
- Thomas Wyndham, 1st Baron Wyndham, Irish lawyer and politician, former Lord Chancellor of Ireland
- Sir Wadham Wyndham, judge
- Sir Peter William Youens, former Deputy Chief Secretary of Nyasaland (today Malawi) and secretary to the Prime Minister and the Cabinet of Malawi
Other
- Samuel Augustus Barnett, social reformer
- Alan Blackshaw, mountaineer, skier and civil servant
- William Bromet, rugby player
- Sir Michael Checkland, former Director General of the BBC
- John Cooke, prosecutor of Charles I
- Warren East, businessman, Chief Executive of ARM Holdings plc
- C. B. Fry, sportsman
- George Hogg, adventurer
- David Levin, entrepreneur
- Emily Ludolf, amateur chef, finalist on BBC 2's Masterchef, 2008
- Paul McMahon, cricketer
- Nathaniel Philip Rothschild, British financier and only son of Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild
- Edward Saatchi, entrepreneur
Fellows and honorary Fellows
- Alfred Ayer, logical positivist
- Michael R. Ayers, philosopher
- John Bamborough, scholar of English literature and founding Principal of Linacre College, Oxford
- John Bell, Professor of Law and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge
- T.J. Binyon, Russian literature scholar and crime writer
- Ian Brownlie, barrister and academic in international law
- Peter Carter, legal scholar
- Allan Chapman, historian of science
- Richard Congreve, philosopher
- Charles Coulson, applied mathematician, theoretical chemist and religious author
- Peter Derow, historian of ancient Greece and Rome
- Frederick Augustus Dixey, former President of the Royal Entomological Society of London
- Terry Eagleton, Marxist literary theorist
- Eprime Eshag, Keynesian economist
- Jeffrey Hackney, legal scholar
- Andrew Hodges, mathematician, author and Dean of Wadham College
- Humphrey Hody, clergyman and theologian
- Thomas Graham Jackson, architect
- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, Churchill's scientific adviser during the Second World War
- Nicholas Lloyd, cleric and lexicographer
- David Mabberley, botanist, educator and writer
- Edward Arthur Milne, astrophysicist and mathematician
- Ted Nelson, American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology
- Bernard O'Donoghue, Irish poet
- Roger Penrose, mathematical physicist and philosopher
- Benjamin Bickley Rogers, classical scholar
- Richard Sharpe, historian of medieval England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
- Marcus du Sautoy, mathematician, writer, television presenter
- Edward Stone, Rector who discovered the active ingredient of Aspirin
- John Swinton, writer, academic, Church of England clergyman and orientalist
- Joseph Trapp, clergyman, academic, poet and pamphleteer
- Theodore Wade-Gery, classical scholar, historian and epigrapher
- Joseph White, orientalist and theologian
- John Williams, Welsh lawyer and writer
- Robert J.C. Young, post-colonial theorist, cultural critic, and historian
Honorary Fellows
- Abdul Halim of Kedah, Sultan of Kedah
- Sir Franklin Berman, barrister, judge and arbitrator
- Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, television broadcaster
- Sir Brian Burnett, Air Chief Marshal
- Sir Michael Checkland, former Director General of the BBC
- Peter Day, inorganic chemist
- John Dyson, Lord Dyson Master of the Rolls
- Sir Roderick Floud, economic historian
- Sir Sydney Giffard, diplomat and author
- Allan Gotlieb, Canadian public servant and author
- Hugh Allen Oliver Hill, bioinorganic chemist
- Jeremy R. Knowles, former professor of chemistry at Harvard University
- David Malcolm, lawyer
- P. J. Marshall, historian of the British Empire
- Nevil Story Maskelyne, geologist and politician
- Peter Milliken, lawyer and politician
- Claus Moser, Baron Moser, statistician and public servant
- Sir James Munby, judge
- Michael Nolan, Baron Nolan, judge, first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life (1994-1997), Chancellor of the University of Essex (1997–2002)
- Ashraf Pahlavi, Princess of Iran
- Sir Denys Roberts, former British colonial official and judge
- Sir Christopher Rose, former judge
- Wasim Sajjad, Pakistani lawyer and legal educator
- Sir David Smith, botanist
- Andrew Thomson, Professor
- Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury
- David Winkley, Sir David Winkley
Wardens
The Warden is the college's principal, responsible for its academic leadership, chairing its governing body, and representing it in the outside world. Below is a list of the Wardens of Wadham college in chronological order. Their time in office is given in parentheses.
- Robert Wright (20 April-20 July, 1613), Bishop of Bristol and Bishop of Lichfield
- John Fleming (1613-1617)
- William Smyth (1617-1635)
- Daniel Estcot (1635-1644)
- John Pitt (1644-1648)
- John Wilkins (1648-1659), Bishop, scholar and co-founder of the Royal Society
- Walter Blandford (1659-1665), Bishop of Oxford, 1665, Bishop of Worcester, 1671
- Gilbert Ironside the younger (1665-1689), Bishop of Bristol, 1689, Bishop of Hereford, 1691
- Thomas Dunster (1689-1719)
- William Baker (1719-1724), Bishop of Bangor, 1724, Bishop of Norwich, 1727
- Robert Thistlethwayte (1724-1739), clergyman, fled to France in 1737 after a homosexual scandal
- Samuel Lisle (1739-1744), Bishop of St. Asaph, 1744, Bishop of Norwich, 1748
- George Wyndham (1744-1777)
- James Gerard (1777-1783)
- John Wills (1783-1806), administrator, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1792–1796)
- William Tournay (1806-1831)
- Benjamin Parsons Symons (1831-1871), Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1844–1848)
- John Griffiths (1871-1881), Keeper of the Archives (1857-1885)
- George E. Thorley (1881-1903)
- Patrick A. Wright-Henderson (1903-1913)
- Joseph Wells (1913-1927), Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1923–1926)
- John F. Stenning (1927-1938)
- Maurice Bowra (1938-1970), classical scholar and academic, known for his wit
- Stuart Hampshire (1970-1984), philosopher and literary critic
- Claus Moser, Baron Moser (1984-1993), statistician and civil servant
- John Flemming (1993-2004), economist, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, Fellow of the British Academy
- Neil Chalmers (2004-2012), former Director of the Natural History Museum
- Ken Macdonald, Baron Macdonald of River Glaven (2012-Present), former Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales (2003–2008)
Deans
Responsible for various aspects of the day-to-day student life of the College, the Dean has authority in matters of discipline concerning the behaviour of individuals or groups. Below is a list of the Deans of Wadham college in chronological order, together with their time in office.
- John Pitt 1613, 1616–17 [1]
- John Goodridge 1613, 1618 [1]
- Matthew Osborne 1614, 1619 [1]
- Daniel Estcot 1615, Warden 1635–1644 [1]
- Ralph Flexney 1620 [1]
- Alexander Huish 1621 [1]
- Ignatius Jordan 1622 [1]
- Amias Hext 1622–23 [1]
- William Boswell 1624, 1626 [1]
- Francis Strode 1625 [1]
- Gilbert Drake 1627–28 [1]
- William Turner 1629–31 [1]
- John Warren 1632–33 [1]
- Tristram Sugge 1635, 1636 [1]
- Leonard Simons 1637, 1644–1645, 1647 [1]
- Robert Chapline 1638–39 [1]
- Richard Goodridge 1641 [1]
- George Ashwell 1642–43 [1]
- Richard Knightbridge 1646, resigned 1647 and replaced by Leonard Simons [1]
- Anthony Nourse 1647 [1]
- Samuel Lee 1653 [1]
- John Ball 1659, died 1660 and replaced by William Turges [1]
- Walter Pope 1660 [1]
- Daniel Estcott 1661 [1]
- Thomas Jeamson 1662, 1667 [1]
- John Chase 1663, 1671 [1]
- Brian Cave 1665, 1668 [1]
- Nathaniel Salter 1669 [1]
- William Thornton 1670 [1]
- George Fletcher 1672, 1676, died 1676 and replaced by William Shortgrave [1]
- John Ludwell 1673–1674 [1]
- Thomas Lessey 1675 [1]
- Robert Pitt 1677 [1]
- Robert Balch 1678 [1]
- William Latton 1679 [1]
- William Gould 1681 [1]
- George Harding 1683, replaced by Thomas Lyndesay[1]
- Thomas Pigott 1684 [1]
- Alexander Crooke 1685 [1]
- Thomas Lidgould 1686 [1]
- Thomas Dunster 1687 [1]
- Humphrey Hody 1688 [1]
- Robert Doyley 1689 [1]
- William Hunt 1719 [1]
- John Leaves 1720, 1725, 1727 [1]
- Robert Nash 1721 [1]
- George Bowditch 1722, 1726 [1]
- Philip Speke 1723–24 [1]
- Edwyn Sandys 1728 [1]
- Stopford Jacks c.1925
- John Frederick Stenning, Warden 1927–1938
- Maurice Bowra c.1922-1938, Warden 1938–70
- A.J. Ayer 1945, philosopher
- John Bamborough 1947–54, founding Principal of Linacre College, Oxford
- T.J. Binyon ?–1976 & 1980s, literary scholar and writer
- David Mabberley 1976–82 and 1991–96, botanist and writer
- James Morwood 2000–2006, Grocyn Lecturer in Classics
- Robin McCleery ?–2008
- Paul Martin 2009
- Andrew Hodges 2011–present, mathematician and writer
References
- "Wardens of Wadham". Wadham College, Oxford. Retrieved 2013-08-14.
- "Visiting, Honorary, Foundation and Emeritus Fellows". Wadham College, Oxford. Retrieved 2013-04-12.
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