List of Brasenose College, Oxford people

A list of notable people associated with Brasenose College, Oxford. Some individuals will fall into several categories. Sorted alphabetically by surname.

Alumni

See also Former students of Brasenose College, Oxford.

Politicians and civil servants

David Cameron

• Donald Acheson, Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom (1983—1991).
• Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1804.
• Mamoun Beheiry, Former Sudanese Finance Minister and Governor of the Central Bank of Sudan
• John Brademas, American politician and educator
• John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada
• David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• Pete Dawkins, Rhodes Scholar, U.S. Army Brigadier General, and Republican candidate for Senate.
• Stephen Dorrell, British Conservative politician
• John Gorton, Prime Minister of Australia
• Mark Harper, British politician
• Tanvir Ahmad Khan, Former Foreign Secretary of Pakistan
• Bill O'Chee, Australian politician
• John Profumo, British politician.
• Malcolm Turnbull, Prime Minister of Australia

Judges and lawyers

William Robert Grove

• George Baker, President of the Family Division (formerly of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division) of the High Court of Justice from 1971-1979
• Jack Beatson, Lord Justice of Appeal
• Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley English Nobleman, Judge and Statesman who served as Lord Keeper and Lord Chancellor
• William Robert Grove, Welsh judge and physical scientist
• William Hulme, 17th century lawyer and landowner
• Anthony McCowan, British barrister and judge of the High Court of Justice and Court of Appeal
• Jeremy McMullen, barrister, judge, trade unionist and expert on employment law^[1]
• John Mortimer, British barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author.
• John Port, Judge
• Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman, English judge and barrister

Clergy

• Richard Barnes, Bishop in the Church of England (1567—1579)
• William Webb Ellis, Anglican clergyman who is famous for allegedly being the inventor of Rugby football whilst a pupil at Rugby School.
• The Rt Revd Gordon Mursell, Bishop of Stafford
• Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1980 to 1991.
• Dom Illtyd Trethowan, English priest, philosopher and author.
• The Very Reverend Henry Wace, Principal of King's College London (1883–1897) and Dean of Canterbury (1903–1924)

Military personnel

• Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Field Marshal, British senior officer during World War I
• Michelle D. Johnson, The first female superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy
• Charles Herbert Little, Canadian Director of Naval Intelligence during the Second World War and an author

Classicists and archaeologists

• Arthur Evans, British archaeologist

Historians and antiquarians

Elias Ashmole

• Elias Ashmole, Antiquary, politician, officer of arms, astrologer and student of alchemy.
• Rev. Wladislaw Somerville Lach-Szyrma, Historian (folklore) and Science Fiction
• Tudor Parfitt Historian, orientalist and writer

Language and literature academics

• Robert Burton, Scholar at Oxford University

Philosophers and theologians

• John Foxe, English historian and martyrologist
• Alexander Nowell, Anglican Puritan theologian and clergyman, who served as dean of St Paul's
• Thomas Traherne, English poet, clergyman, theologian, and religious writer
• Dom Illtyd Trethowan, English priest, philosopher and author.
• William Whittingham, English Biblical scholar and religious reformer, dean of Durham
• David Pearce (philosopher), Utilitarian philosopher, founder of the World Transhumanist Association

Mathematicians, medics and scientists

• Colin Clark, Economist and statistician
• Paul Frampton, Particle phenomenologist
• William Robert Grove, Welsh judge and physical scientist
• Professor Graham Richards, Head of Chemistry (1997-2006) at the University of Oxford
• Sir Michael Stratton, third director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Currently heads the Cancer Genome Project.

Educators

• Frank Aydelotte, U.S. educator
• Keith Ingram, Former Dragon School headmaster
• Robert Lindgren, President of Randolph-Macon College

Artists and writers

Sir William Golding

• John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist Politician who served as Governor General of Canada
• Helen DeWitt, Novelist.
• Richard Barham, English cleric of the Church of England, novelist, and humorous poet
• J. G. Farrell, Novelist
• Michael Freeman
• William Golding, English novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate
• Tim Harford, Economist and journalist
• David Langford, Science fiction writer
• John Marston
• Simon Mawer, English writer
• George Monbiot, English writer
• Sir John Mortimer, British barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author.
• Rev. James Noyes, Puritan scholar and author, founder of Newbury, Massachusetts
• Rolfe Arnold Scott-James, Literary critic
• William Edward Vickers (Roy Vickers), English mystery writer
• Sara Wheeler, English travel writer and biographer
• Toby Young, British journalist

Broadcasters and entertainers

William Webb Ellis, allegedly the inventor of Rugby football

• Mark Williams, Actor
• Wilton Barnhardt, Former reporter for Sports Illustrated and author
• Laura Corcoran, Musical comedy cabaret double act
• Michael Palin, Comedian, actor, writer and television presenter

Musicians

• Myles MacInnes (Mylo), Scottish electronic musician and record producer

Sports people

Walter Woodgate, Boat Race winner, eight-time Henley Regatta champion and inventor of the coxless four

• Brian Boobbyer, Rugby union and cricketer
• John Cherry, Rower who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics
• Colin Cowdrey, Cricketer
• William Webb Ellis, Anglican clergyman who is famous for allegedly being the inventor of Rugby football whilst a pupil at Rugby School.
• Tom Cottingham Edwards-Moss, Rower who competed in the Boat Race four times and twice won the Diamond Challenge Sculls, later a Conservative politician
• Arnold Jackson, British athlete 1912 Olympic 1500m gold medallist, Army Officer (DSO with Three Bars) and barrister
• Prince Alexander Obolensky, Represented England in International Rugby Union
• Edward Shaw, Cricketer and British Army officer
• Cuthbert Ottaway, First captain of the England football team
• Walter Bradford Woodgate, Boat Race winner and multiple-time Henley Royal Regatta champion

Other people in public life

• Kate Allen, Director of Amnesty International UK (AIUK)
• Mamoun Beheiry, Economist, first commissioner of the Bank of Sudan and first president of the African Development Bank
• Denys Finch Hatton, Aristocratic big-game hunter
• Robin Janvrin, Baron Janvrin, Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II (1999—2007)
• Bruce Kent, British political activist and former Roman Catholic priest
• Andrew Lindsay, Former Olympic Gold medal-winning rower at the 2000 Summer Olympics and CEO of Telecom Plus
• Philip Moore, Baron Moore of Wolvercote, Private Secretary to the Sovereign (1977–1986)
• Paul Pester, CEO of TSB Bank^[2]
• Philip Yea, British businessman and private equity investor

Fellows and Principals

See also Fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford.

• J. L. Ackrill, Emeritus Professor of the History of Philosophy
• Richard Adams, Theologian

The Rev. Thomas Adams

• The Rev. Thomas Adams, English academic and theological writer
• John Anderson, Camden Professor of Ancient History (1927—1936)
• John Barnard, Supporter of James II of England
• Richard Barnes, Bishop in the Church of England (1567—1579)
• John Barnston, Divine
• Llewellyn John Montfort Bebb, British academic, Principal of St David's College (1898–1915)
• The Rt. Rev. James Bell, Bishop of Knaresborough
• Bryan John Birch, British mathematician
• Peter Birks, Regius Professor of Civil Law
• Vernon Bogdanor, Research Professor at the Institute for Contemporary British History at King's College London
• Robert Bolton, Clergyman and academic
• The Rt. Hon. George Bowen, British author and colonial administrator
• Gerard Baldwin Brown, Art historian
• Peter Brunt, Ancient historian at Oxford University.
• Arthur Chandler, Bishop of Bloemfontein, Chaplin
• Ralph Churton, Churchman
• Richard Cooper, Professor of French at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford
• Jonathan Culler, Professor of English at Cornell University
• George Edmundson, Clergyman and academic historian
• Sos Eltis, Fellow and Tutor in English of Brasenose College, author
• Russell G. Foster, Professor of Circadian Neuroscience

John Foxe

• John Foxe, English historian and martyrologist
• John Freeman, Retired British politician, diplomat and broadcaster
• James Garbett, Archdeacon of Chichester
• Reginald Halse, Archbishop of Brisbane
• Francis J. Haverfield, British historian and archaeologist
• Douglas Higgs, Researcher at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Oxford
• Jonathan A. Jones, University lecturer in atomic and laser physics at Oxford University
• Kurt Josten, Curator of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
• Harry Judge, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Education

Sir Otto Kahn-Freund

• Otto Kahn-Freund, Professor of comparative law, University of Oxford
• Nicholas Kurti, Physicist
• Falconer Madan, Librarian of the Bodleian Library
• Fergus Millar, British historian and Camden Professor of Ancient History
• Reginald Owen, Archbishop of New Zealand (1952—1960)
• Simon Palfrey, English Scholar at Oxford University
• Walter Pater, English essayist, critic of art and literature, and writer of fiction
• Henry Francis Pelham, English scholar and historian
• William Petty, English economist, scientist and philosopher.
• Edward Hayes Plumptre, English divine and scholar
• Leighton Durham Reynolds, British classicist and Emeritus Professor of Classical Languages and Literature
• Samuel Harvey Reynolds, divine
• Graham Richards, Head of Chemistry (1997-2006) at the University of Oxford
• Gareth Roberts, Welsh physicist
• Arthur William Rucker, Physicist

Simon Schama

• Simon Schama, British historian and art historian
• Robert Shackleton, English French language philologist and librarian.
• Peter J. N. Sinclair, Professor in Economics at the University of Birmingham
• Richard V. Southwell, British mathematician
• Ronald Syme, Historian and classicist
• D. R. Thorpe, Biographer of three British Prime Ministers
• John Wain, Former Professor of Poetry, Oxford
• Thomas Humphry Ward, English author and journalist
• Geoffrey Warnock, philosopher and Vice-Chancellor
• Lawrence Washington, English rector
• Francis Willis, Physician and clergyman
• The Rt. Rev. John Wordsworth, English prelate.

Principals

The current Principal is John Bowers.

Honorary Fellows

Michael Palin

• Donald Acheson, Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom (1983—1991).
• Kate Allen, Director of Amnesty International UK (AIUK)
• George Baker, President of the Family Division (formerly of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division) of the High Court of Justice
• John Brademas, Greek American politician and educator
• The Rt. Hon. David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• The Rt. Hon. John Gorton, Prime Minister of Australia
• Erwin Hahn, American physicist, Wolf Prize in Physics (1983/4)
• Robin Janvrin, Baron Janvrin, Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II (February 1999 to September 2007)
• Michelle D. Johnson, Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force and Superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy.
• John Mortimer, English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author
• Michael Palin, Comedian, actor, writer and television presenter
• Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman
• Francis James Wylie, first Warden of Rhodes House

Other persons associated with Brasenose

• Jeffrey Archer

References