List of people associated with Pembroke College, Oxford
A list of Pembroke College, Oxford people including former students, fellows, honorary fellows, principals and masters of Pembroke College , University of Oxford , England and its predecessor Broadgates Hall . The overwhelming maleness of this list can be partially explained by the fact that for over three centuries (from its foundation in 1624 until 1979), women were barred from studying at Pembroke.[ 1]
King Abdullah II of Jordan
Oz Clarke
Michael Heseltine
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson 's desk, in Broadgates.
Plaque honoring James Smithson , founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution .
Abdullah II of Jordan , current ruler of Jordan
William Adams , religious writer and essayist
Patience Agbabi , performance poet
Hilarion Alfeyev , Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church , theologian, composer
Francis Beaumont , playwright
Michael Bettaney , a former MI5 intelligence officer convicted of Official Secrets Act offences in 1984
Tanya Beckett , journalist and TV presenter
Sir William Blackstone , jurist
Edmund Bonner , bishop, known as 'Bloody Bonner'
Kevin Brennan , Labour politician, MP for Cardiff West
Sir Thomas Browne , seventeenth-century author
Ian Burnett, Baron Burnett of Maldon , Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (2017–2023)
Pete Buttigieg , Mayor of South Bend, Indiana and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate
William Camden , antiquarian and historian
John Charmley , Professor of Modern History at the University of East Anglia
Oz Clarke , oenophile and broadcaster
Ed Conway , the first Economics Editor of Sky News (since 2011)
Richard Corbet , Bishop of Oxford and Norwich, was a student resident in Broadgates Hall before it became Pembroke College
Benjamin Cox , English Baptist minister, student resident in Broadgates Hall before it became Pembroke College
David Cracknell , former Sunday Times Political Editor
Mary Creagh , Labour politician
Thomas Percival Creed , Principal Queen Mary, University of London ; Vice-Chancellor University of London
Julian Critchley , journalist and Conservative politician
Caryn Davies Rowing, World Championships, Olympic Games Gold medal
Denzil Davies , Labour politician
Maria Eagle , Labour government minister
Jen Easterly , Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Alun Evans , Co-founder of BUSA and Chief Executive Officer of Football Association of Wales
J. William Fulbright , Democratic U.S. Senator representing Arkansas
Stefan Gates , food & cookery writer and television presenter
Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson , Icelandic political philosopher and writer
Josh Gottheimer , U.S. Representative from New Jersey
David Allen Green , lawyer and legal writer
Tim Griffin , U.S. Representative from Arkansas
John Hattendorf , maritime historian
Charles Hawtrey (19th century actor)
George Procter Hawtrey , actor and playwright
Michael Heseltine , former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister and publisher
Tom Hunt , serving Member of Parliament for Ipswich
Walter Isaacson , author and President and CEO of the Aspen Institute
Samuel Johnson , lexicographer, biographer, writer, poet
John Jordan , poet, writer, literary critic, editor, academic and broadcaster
Roz Kaveney , writer
Charles Kempe , Victorian stained glass designer
John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard , diplomat
Sir Louis Addin Kershaw , judge
Philip Lader , former American ambassador to the United Kingdom, businessman
Richard Lugar , U.S. Senator from Indiana
Stephen McKay , academic
Bernard Miles , Lord Miles, actor
Sir John Mummery , Lord Justice of Appeal
Viktor Orbán , Prime Minister of Hungary (1998-2002, 2010-)
Tarik O'Regan , composer
Sukhumbhand Paribatra , 15th Governor of Bangkok , Thailand
John Pym , parliamentarian and critic of Charles I of England
Geoffrey Raisman , neuroscientist
Peter Ricketts, Baron Ricketts , diplomat
Paul Addison , academic historian of WW2 Britain and its social implications
Roland Ritchie , former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Win Rockefeller , American philanthropist, Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas
Chris Rokos , hedge fund manager
Sir John Scott , Deputy Judge Advocate-General in Egypt, Judicial Advisor to the Khedive , 1891–98
William Shenstone , 18th Century poet
Radosław Sikorski , Polish politician and former Minister of Foreign Affairs [ 2]
James Smithson , mineralogist, benefactor of the Smithsonian Institution
John Snagge , BBC newsreader and commentator
The Rt Rev. Thomas Stanage , Anglican Bishop in South Africa
Samuel John Stone , Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter (The Church's One Foundation )
Katharine Viner , editor-in-chief of The Guardian from summer 2015[ 3] [ 4]
Honeysuckle Weeks , actress
George Whitefield , leader of the Methodist movement in the eighteenth century.
Chris Whitty , Chief Medical Officer for England
John Orman Gilbert , resident minister to Brunei
Fellows
John Krebs as a Hamilton lecturer at the 14th Behavioral Ecology Congress in Lund, Sweden (August 2012)
Gerald Allen , bishop, Fellow, Dean, and Chaplain of Pembroke College (1910–20), made an Honorary Fellow in 1934
Antony Andrewes , historian, Fellow (1933–46)
Robert Baldick , scholar of French literature
Simon Blackburn , philosopher, former Fellow
The Rt Rev. Brian Burrowes , bishop, Fellow, Lecturer, Dean and Chaplain until 1937
John Cameron, Lord Abernethy , Scottish lawyer, Honorary Fellow
Henry William Chandler , classical scholar, elected Fellow in 1853
R. G. Collingwood , philosopher and historian
Tobias Cremer , politician, Junior Research Fellow (2020-2022)
David Eastwood , academic, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham since 13 April 2009, former fellow
John Eekelaar , law lecturer, academic director of Pembroke College (2005–2009)
Charles Harding Firth , historian, Fellow in 1887
Malcolm Reginald Godden , Junior Research Fellow (1969–1972), Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford since May 1991.
Richard Graves , minister and poet
Conyngham Greene , diplomat, Honorary Fellow 1917
Henrietta Harrison , historian and sinologist, Fellow 2015
Martha Klein , philosopher, retired in 2006
John Krebs, Baron Krebs , zoologist, current Principal of Jesus College, Oxford
Robert Macintosh , New Zealand-born anaesthetist, Honorary Fellow 1965
Kenneth Mackenzie , Bishop of Brechin (1935–1943), Fellow, Dean and Chaplain (1905–1910)
Piers Mackesy , military historian, tutor in modern history and Fellow (1954–88)
Christopher Melchert , American scholar of Islam, Fellow in Arabic
Edward Moore , canon of Canterbury Cathedral, Honorary Fellow of Pembroke and Queen's colleges
Robert Payne , cleric, natural philosopher, second Fellow of the college in 1624
Zbigniew Pełczyński , politics scholar, emeritus fellow
Thomas Risley , Presbyterian minister
George Rolleston , physician and zoologist, Fellow 1851
Colin Sheppard , engineer, Fellow (1979–89)
Helen Small , Professor of English Literature
Eric Stanley , scholar of Medieval literature, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford (1977–91)
William Thomas , Welsh clergyman and academic, Fellow after 1760
J. R. R. Tolkien , a Fellow from 1925 to 1945 and wrote The Hobbit and the first two books of The Lord of the Rings during his time there.
Stephen Tuck , historian[ 5]
Christopher M. Tuckett , biblical scholar, Professor of New Testament Studies and Fellow
Metropolitan Kallistos Ware , English bishop in the Eastern Orthodox church, theologian, Fellow (1970–2001)
Robin Wilson , mathematician, Stipendiary Lecturer at Pembroke
Michael Winterbottom , Classics Professor
Charles Leslie Wrenn , Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon (1945–63), member of the "Inklings "
Masters
Source:[ 6]
1526 Richard Arche
1549–53 Thomas Randolph , ambassador of Elizabeth I, Principal of Broadgates Hall, which is now Pembroke College
1624–47 Thomas Clayton , the last Principal of Broadgates Hall and became the first Master of Pembroke College
1647 Henry Wightwick , when Clayton died the Fellows elected Wightwick as Master
1647–60 Henry Langley , however the Parliamentary Committee for the University elected Langley
1660–64 Henry Wightwick, restored as Master
1664–1709 John Hall
1710–14 Colwell Brickenden
1714–38 Matthew Panting , contributed to the building of the Chapel
1738–75 John Ratcliffe
1775–89 William Adams
1789–96 William Sergrove , a descendant of Thomas Tesdale 's (whose gift made Pembroke's existence possible). Died aged only 49.
1796–1809 John Smyth , one-time naval chaplain, his stories earned him the nickname 'Sinbad the Sailor'.
1809–43 George William Hall , academic administrator
1844–64 Francis Jeune , clergyman, Dean of Jersey (1838–1844)
1864–91 Evan Evans , Philipps Fellow of Pembroke College (1843–1864), serving as Tutor and senior Dean, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1878–1882)
1892–98 Bartholomew Price , mathematician, became fellow in 1844 and tutor and mathematical lecturer in 1845, one of the teachers of Lewis Carroll
1899–1918 John Mitchinson , President of the Union, teacher and Anglican priest
1918–55 Frederick Homes Dudden , theological scholar, Chaplain to King George V and George VI (1929–52), Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1929–32)
1955–68 Ronald McCallum , Fellow in history in 1925
1968–75 George Pickering , had held the Regius Chair of Medicine
1975–85 Geoffrey Arthur , diplomat
1985–93 Roger Bannister , medic, best known as the first man to run the mile in under four minutes.
1993–2001 Robert Stevens , lawyer, previously Professor of Law at Yale, President of Haverford College , Chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz
July 2001 – July 2013 Giles Henderson CBE, Senior Partner at law firm Slaughter and May
August 2013 – June 2020 Lynne Brindley , former Chief Executive of the British Library , the United Kingdom 's national library (July 2000-July 2012)[ 7]
July 2020 – present Ernest Ryder , a former Lord Justice of Appeal[ 8]
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