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The following is a list of notable people associated with Balliol College, Oxford, including alumni and Masters of the college. When available, year of matriculation is provided in parentheses, as listed in the relevant edition of The Balliol College Register or in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Complete (or very nearly complete) lists of Fellows and students, arranged by year of matriculation, can be found in the published Balliol College Register; the 1st edition,[1] 2nd edition[2] and 3rd edition.[3]
This list of notable alumni consists almost entirely of men, because women were admitted to the college only from 1979.[4] To assist with verification, each name links to its Wikipedia page (except for those so ancient that no page exists). Each name only appears once in the lists, even though the person may have established themselves in more than one category.
Image | Name | Join date |
Field of work | Comments | Refs |
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George Steiner | 1950 | comparative literature | Rhodes Scholar, Hon. Fellow Professor at Geneva, Oxford, Harvard Polyglot and polymath |
[5]: 515 | |
David Daiches | 1934 | literary history | Fellow A Critical History of English Literature |
[5]: 120 | |
John Livingston Lowes | 1930 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge Geoffrey Chaucer |
first Eastman Professor taught at Washington University St Louis, and Harvard |
[6]: 65 | |
Cyril Connolly | 1922 | literary critic | Enemies of Promise | [6]: 25 | |
Logan Pearsall Smith | 1887 | essayist | Words and Idioms "The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood." |
[7]: 21 | |
Henry Watson Fowler | 1880 | lexicographer | A Dictionary of Modern English Usage Concise Oxford English Dictionary "a lexicographical genius" (The Times) |
[7]: 7 | |
Henry Sweet | 1869 | phoneticist | A Handbook of Phonetics | [8]: 63 | |
John Churton Collins | 1867 | literary critic | Professor, Birmingham The Study of English Literature "a louse in the locks of literature" (Tennyson) |
[8]: 52 | |
John Nichol | 1855 | literary critic | Regius Professor of English Literature, Glasgow Byron, Burns, Carlyle |
[8]: 15 | |
Herbert Coleridge | 1847 | philologist | editor Oxford English Dictionary | [8]: 5 |
Image | Name | Join date |
Field of work | Comments | Refs |
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Nick Bevan | 1960 | Shiplake College | headmaster | [5]: 41 | |
Alec Peterson | 1926 | International Baccalaureate | head of Oxford University Department of Education | [6]: 47 | |
John Fulton | 1923 | British Council | chair of British Council | [6]: 29 | |
Robert Birley | 1922 | Charterhouse Eton College |
headmaster professor, City University |
[6]: 24 | |
Sir Henry Marten | 1891 | Eton College | Provost of Eton | [7]: 33 | |
Richard Powell Francis | 1879 | Brisbane Grammar School | first Australian to graduate from Balliol | [8]: 117 [11] | |
George Ferris Whidborne Mortimer | 1823 | City of London School | headmaster Abolitionist |
[12] | |
Richard Jenkyns | 1800 | Balliol College | Master, educational innovator | [13] |
Balliol is run by the Master and Fellows of the college. The Master of the college must be "the person who is, in [the Fellows'] judgement, most fit for the government of the College as a place of religion, learning, and education".[23] The current Master of Balliol is Helen Ghosh.[24]