A list of alumni of Hertford College, Oxford , including alumni of its two predecessor institutions, Hart Hall and Magdalen Hall.
Hart Hall (1282–1740)[ edit ]
John Donne
Henry Pelham
Joseph Bowles , Bodley's Librarian
Thomas Bray , clergyman and abolitionist
Saint Alexander Briant , Jesuit martyr
Henry Bromley , politician
Morgan Coleman , MP for Newport, Cornwall
John Donne , poet, Anglican priest
Payne Fisher , poet
Nicholas Fuller , Hebraist, philologist
John Glynne , jurist
Peter Heylyn , polemicist
John Hutchins , antiquary
Thomas Manton , Puritan clergyman and chaplain to Oliver Cromwell
John Norden , cartographer
Henry Pelham , British Whig Prime Minister
John Selden , jurist, MP for Oxford University
George Augustus Selwyn , politician
Thomas Shirley , politician, soldier, adventurer, and privateer
Jonathan Swift , satirist, poet, Anglican priest, author of Gulliver's Travels
Henry Swinburne , ecclesiastical lawyer
Hertford College, first foundation 1740–1816[ edit ]
Charles James Fox
Magdalen Hall, old site 1480–1822[ edit ]
Thomas Hobbes
William Tyndale
John Wilkins
Robert Ashley , writer
Daniel Burgess , Presbyterian minister
Matthew Bryan , Jacobite preacher
Walter Charleton , Epicurean philosopher
Samuel Daniel , poet, historian
Matthew Hale , Lord Chief Justice
Thomas Hobbes , political philosopher, author of Leviathan
John Huckell , poet
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon , historian, statesman
John Gilbert , Archbishop of York
Narcissus Marsh , Primate of All Ireland
Richard Morton , physician
Philip Nye , clergyman and member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines
Robert Plot , naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford , and first Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum
John Rickman , statistician
Obadiah Sedgwick , clergyman and member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines
George Shaw , biologist
Fleetwood Sheppard , courtier
William Tyndale , Bible translator, Reformation martyr
Henry Vane the Younger , Parliamentarian statesman
Sir Ralph Verney, 1st Baronet, of Middle Claydon , politician
William Waller , Parliamentarian soldier
John Wilkins , naturalist, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford , and founder of the Royal Society
Benjamin Woodbridge , clergyman and controversialist
Magdalen Hall, new site 1822–1874[ edit ]
Montagu Burrows , first Chichele Professor of Modern History
William Robinson Clark , theologian
William Cowper , first Dean of Sydney
John Thadeus Delane , journalist
Clement Jackson , founder of the Amateur Athletic Association
Arthur Mayo VC , soldier
Francis McDougall , first Anglican bishop of Labuan and the Kingdom of Sarawak
Brownlow North , evangelist
Thorold Rogers , political economist
William Williams , first Anglican Bishop of Waiapu , New Zealand
Leonard Williams , third Bishop of Waiapu (son of William Williams)
Nathaniel Woodard , Priest in the Church of England , founder of the Woodard Corporation
Hertford College, second foundation 1874–[ edit ]
Richard Addinsell , composer of film music
Helen Alexander , businesswoman
C. A. J. Armstrong , historian
Sharon Ashbrook , chemist
Bernard Ashmole , archaeologist, art historian
Andrea Ashworth , author, academic
Christopher Ballinas Valdés , Mexican public policy expert and civil servant
Edmund Bartley-Denniss , politician and cyclist
Charles Bean , war correspondent and historian
John Behan , educationist, jurist
Marian Bell , economist
Catherine Bennett , journalist
David Blomfield , leader of the Liberal Party group on Richmond upon Thames Council , writer, book editor and local historian[ 1]
Martin Bridson FRS, mathematician
Jasmine Brown , author
Isaac Hawkins Browne , industrialist
Fiona Bruce , BBC newsreader
Rupert Bruce-Mitford , archaeologist and scholar
Anthony Bushell , actor
Carole Cadwalladr , journalist
Walter Carey , clergyman
Victor Cha , national security specialist
Jean Chapdelaine , diplomat
Calvin Cheng , Singapore modelling agency head, former Nominated Member of Parliament
William Robinson Clark , theologian
Nick Cohen , political journalist
Geoffrey Corbett , civil servant and mountaineer[ 2]
W. Maxwell Cowan , neuroscientist
Sherard Cowper-Coles , diplomat
George Dangerfield , journalist, historian
Daniel Dennett , philosopher of the mind
David Dilks , historian
Jack Herbert Driberg , anthropologist
Bill Duff , Arabist
Jack Duppa-Miller , sailor
Alfred Earle , bishop
J. Meade Falkner , novelist, The Lost Stradivarius
Richard W. Fisher , diplomat
Warren Fisher , civil servant
Adam Fleming , BBC newsreader
Thomas Fletcher , diplomat
Nicholas Foulkes , historian, journalist
Henry Sanderson Furniss, 1st Baron Sanderson , socialist educationalist
Helen Ghosh , Master of Balliol College, Oxford , former Director-General of the National Trust .
Pinny Grylls , documentary film maker
Krishnan Guru-Murthy , Channel 4 newsreader
Gideon Henderson , geochemist, climate-change scientist
Nicholas Henderson , diplomat
Jeremy Heywood , civil servant
Leonard Hodgson , church historian
Jeffrey John , Dean of St Alban's Cathedral
James John Joicey , amateur entomologist
Mark S. Joshi , financial mathematician
Natasha Kaplinsky , ITN newsreader
Khalid Jawed Khan , Attorney General of Pakistan
Soweto Kinch , jazz saxophonist, rapper
Mark A. Lemmon FRS, Chair of Pharmacology at Yale University School of Medicine
Seth Lerer , literary critic
Alain LeRoy Locke , writer of the Harlem Renaissance
Jurek Martin , journalist
Ronald Martland , former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Gavin Maxwell , naturalist, author of Ring of Bright Water
Arthur Mayo , recipient of the Victoria Cross
Roland Michener , former Governor General of Canada
Dom Mintoff , former Prime Minister of Malta
Ian Morison FRAS, 35th Gresham Professor of Astronomy
David Naylor , medical researcher
Edward Max Nicholson , founder of the World Wildlife Fund
Richard Norton-Taylor , journalist, playwright
Elizabeth Norton , historian and author
Richard Parsons , founder of CGP Guides
Peter Pears , tenor
Barbara A. Perry , constitutional lawyer
James Pettifer , scholar of the Balkans
Bridget Phillipson , MP for Houghton and Sunderland South
Tracey Poirier , Rhodes Scholar, first female Vermont Army National Guard general officer[ 3] [ 4]
Maisie Richardson-Sellers , actor
Nigel Saul , historian
Joseph Gordon Saunders , composer[ 5]
Jacqui Smith , former British Home Secretary
David Spedding , former Head of MI6
Manisha Tank , CNN newsreader
Thum Ping Tjin , the first Singaporean to swim the English Channel
Ed Vulliamy , journalist and world reporter
Evelyn Waugh , author of Brideshead Revisited , journalist
Roger Westbrook , diplomat[ 6]
Byron White , U.S. Associate Supreme Court Justice
Athol Williams , South African poet and social philosopher
Tobias Wolff , author of This Boy's Life
Nathaniel Woodard , educationalist
Alison Young , legal scholar, Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law at the University of Cambridge
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^ Povey, Alicia, ed. (2019). "With Our Thanks: Donors By Matriculation" (PDF) . Hertford College Donor Report . Oxford, England: Hertford College. p. 32.
^ "Biography, Colonel Tracey Poirier, Director of the Joint Staff" . vt.public.ng.mil . Colchester, VT: Vermont National Guard. 2021. Retrieved 5 September 2023 .
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^ Brunei Darussalam . Department of Information, Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, Brunei Darussalam. 1985. p. 15.