List of alumni of Exeter College, Oxford
This is a list of alumni of Exeter College, Oxford . Exeter is one of the colleges of the University of Oxford .
The scarcity of women in this list of notable alumni reflects the fact that for over six and a half centuries (from its foundation in 1314 until 1979), women were barred from studying at Exeter.[ 1]
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
George John Blomfield (1822−1900), clergyman
E. E. Bradford (1860–1944), priest and Uranian poet
Thomas Bradley (1596/7–1673), priest
Harold Davidson (1875–1937), Anglican priest
Josh Levy , (1974- ), Reform Rabbi, CEO of Movement for Reform Judaism
Charles Littlehales (1871–1945), cricketer and clergyman[ 2] [ 3]
Benjamin Wills Newton (1807–1899), evangelist and theologian
Jack Russell (1795–1883), priest and dog breeder
Thomas Tregosse (c.1600–c.1670), Puritan minister
Tom Wright (1948– ), Bishop of Durham
Politicians
Liaquat Ali Khan
Sir Hugh Acland, 5th Baronet (1639–1714), Member of Parliament
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (1621–1683), politician
Dick Celeste (1937– ), 64th Governor of Ohio and US Ambassador to India [ 4]
Sir John Eliot (1592–1632), statesman
Matt Hancock (1978– ), MP for West Suffolk since 2010
Brad Hoylman (born 1965), New York State Senator[ 5]
Humayun Kabir (1906–1969), Education Minister of India
Sirr Al-Khatim Al-Khalifa (1919–2006), Prime minister of the Sudan
Liaquat Ali Khan (1896–1951), politician and the first Prime Minister of Pakistan
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (1938– ), former President of Peru
John Kufuor (1938– ), President of Ghana
John Maynard (1602–1690), 17th century lawyer and politician
Patrick Mercer , Soldier and former Member of Parliament
Chris Murphy (1973– ), United States Senator from Connecticut (Williams at Exeter programme)
Sir Nicholas Slanning (1606–1643), Cornish MP and Civil War officer (royalist)
Peter Truscott (1959– ), politician
Claire Coutinho (1985- ), MP for East Surrey and Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
Jurisprudence
Charles Arthur Turner (1833–1907), Jurist, Chief Justice of Madras High Court
Herbert Edmund-Davies (1906–1992), judge
David Feldman , Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge and former judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina
John Fortescue (c.1394–c.1480), jurist
Kenneth Hayne (1945– ), judge of the High Court of Australia
J. C. H. James (1841–1899), public servant and magistrate of Western Australia
Sydney Kentridge (1922– ), barrister and judge
Sir John Laws (1945–2020), Lord Justice of Appeal and constitutional theorist
William Noy (1577–1634), lawyer and Attorney General to Charles I
Julius Stone (1907–1985), legal theorist
Noel Gratiaen (1904-1973), Attorney General and Supreme court Justice of Ceylon
Murray Tobias (1939– ), judge of the New South Wales Court of Appeal
Aarif Barma (1959– ), judge of the Court of Appeal of Hong Kong
Other public offices
Academics
C. H. S. Fifoot (1899–1975), legal scholar
Ian Maddieson (1942– ), phonetician
Michael O'Neill (1953– ), academic
Joseph Nye (1937– ), political scientist
Surya Subedi (1958– ), international law scholar, barrister, Membre Titulaire of the Institut de Droit International [ 8]
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"
Richard Chorley (1927–2002), geographer
Edgar F. Codd (1923–2003), inventor of the Relational Database
Michael Efroimsky (1962– ), astronomer
E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902–1973), social anthropologist
Malachy Hitchins (1741–1809 ), astronomer and mathematician
Charles Lyell (1797–1875), geologist
Brian John Marples (1907–1997), zoologist[ 9]
Arthur Peacocke (1924–2006), biochemist and theologian
Paul Seymour (1950– ), mathematician
Historians
Philosophers
Artists, composers, writers and entertainers
Will Self
Tariq Ali (1943– ), writer and filmmaker
Martin Amis (1949–2023), novelist
Alan Bennett (1934– ), author and actor
R. D. Blackmore (1825–1900), author of Lorna Doone
Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898), artist
Richard Burton (1925–1984), actor
S.E. Cottam , poet, priest and publisher
John Ford (1586–c.1640?), dramatist
John Gardner (1917–2011), composer
James Hamilton-Paterson , novelist and poet
Mark Labbett (1965– ), Quiz player
Lady Flora McDonnell (1963– ), children's author
William Morris (1834–1896), writer, designer and socialist
Alfred Noyes (1880–1958), poet
Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897), critic and poet
Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848–1918), composer
Philip Pullman (1946– ), author of His Dark Materials
Paul William Roberts (1950–2019), novelist, journalist, travel writer, Middle East expert
Amy Sackville (1981– ), novelist
Will Self (1961– ), novelist
Imogen Stubbs (1961– ), actress
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
Paul Wheeler (writer) , (1934-), author of Bodyline: The Novel
Helen Marten (1985– ), artist and winner of the Hepworth Prize and Turner Prize in 2016.
Sportsmen
Roger Bannister
Raymond Raikes (1910-1999), Broadcaster, Radio director & producer
Roger Alton (1947– ), journalist and newspaper editor
Sanchia Berg (1964– ), BBC correspondent
Reeta Chakrabarti (1964– ), BBC correspondent
Russell Harty (1934–1988), television presenter
Michael Imison (1935– ), BBC television director, story editor and literary agent
Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr. (1946– ), media executive and former newspaper publisher
Robert Moore (1963– ), ITV News correspondent
Robert Robinson (1927–2011), radio and television presenter
Ned Sherrin (1931–2007), broadcaster, author and stage director
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas (1908–1987), broadcaster
Richard Simons (1952-)News Editor ITN, Director of Programmes Meridian Broadcaating
Other alumni
See also
References
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