List of New College, Oxford people

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This is a list of notable people affiliated with New College, Oxford University, England, including former students, and current and former academics and fellows. The disproportionate amount of men on this list can be partially explained by the fact that for roughly 95% of its history (from its foundation in 1379 until 1979), women were barred from studying at New College.[1]

Former students[edit]

  • Katharine Birbalsingh, Author, Headmistress and Founder of the Michaela Community School
  • Robert Alston, British diplomat
  • Jakie Astor, British Conservative Party politician and sportsman
  • Simon Baron-Cohen, professor of Developmental Psychopathology, University of Cambridge
  • Kate Beckinsale, actor
  • Tony Benn, Labour Party politician
  • Peter Bergen, political journalist and author
  • Tim Boswell, former Conservative MP
  • Gyles Brandreth, writer and broadcaster, former Conservative MP for Chester
  • David Butler, psephologist
  • Vikram Chandra, TV anchor
  • Henry Chichele, English archbishop
  • G. A. Cohen, political philosopher
  • Gary Cooper, musician and conductor
  • Michael Crick, journalist
  • John Macleod Campbell Crum, priest and hymnwriter
  • Sir T.W. Edgeworth David (1858–1934), Australian geologist, academic, polar explorer, soldier, public figure
  • Angus Deayton, comedian, actor, television presenter
  • William Douglas Home, dramatist and politician
  • John Fowles, novelist
  • Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, German film director
  • Bill Durodie, academic, professor of risk analysis
  • John Farthing, Canadian philosopher and economist
  • Jonathan Fenby, journalist, writer and former Editor of The Observer and the South China Morning Post
  • Bram Fischer, South African lawyer, defended Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia Trial
  • Roland William Fleming, scientist
  • Hugh Gaitskell, Labour Party leader (1955–63)
  • Patrick Gale, novelist
  • John Galsworthy, novelist and playwright
  • John Gardner, Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford
  • Robert P. George, Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University
  • Robert Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley, British judge
  • Victor Gollancz, publisher
  • William Sealy Gosset, statistician
  • Hugh Grant, actor
  • Irfan Habib, Padma Bhushan, Indian historian; Emeritus Professor of History, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
  • Mohammad Habib, Indian historian; Emeritus Professor of History, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
  • General Sir John Hackett, soldier, university administrator
  • J. B. S. Haldane, biologist[2]
  • William Reginald Halliday, historian and archaeologist
  • Christopher Hampton, playwright and screenwriter
  • H. L. A. Hart, former Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford
  • Saiyid Nurul Hasan, Governor of West Bengal and Orissa
  • Arthur Cayley Headlam, theologian
  • Stephen Hetherington, philosopher
  • Peter Hobbs, novelist
  • Adrian Holman, British diplomat
  • William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury (1828–48)[3]
  • Thomas Hughes, footballer who won the FA Cup twice in the 1870s
  • The Ven. John Ingram, English Jesuit and martyr
  • Douglas Jardine, cricketer
  • Douglas Jay, British Labour Party politician
  • Robert Jay, Counsel to the Leveson Inquiry and now High Court Judge
  • Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana
  • Brian Johnston, broadcaster and cricket commentator
  • Rachel Johnson, journalist
  • Oliver Kamm, journalist, Times leader writer, former hedge fund manager
  • Ian Katz, journalist
  • Randal Keynes, conservationist
  • Sophie Kinsella, ‘chick lit’ novelist
  • Harold Laski, political scientist
  • Leopold George Wickham Legg, historian and editor of the Dictionary of National Biography[4]
  • John Lennard, Professor of British and American Literature, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica,
  • Andro Linklater (born 1944), historian
  • Bernard Longley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham[5]
  • Edward Luce, journalist
  • Charles McCreery, psychologist and author
  • Neil MacGregor, art historian, Director of the British Museum
  • Outram Marshall, clergyman, organising secretary of the Church Union[6]
  • Dambudzo Marechera, Zimbabwean novelist
  • Brian G. Marsden, astronomer
  • Sir Henry Martin, MP for Oxford University, matr: New College, Oxford on 24 November 1581
  • Jamie McIntosh, Canadian abolitionist
  • Douglas McLean, rower in the Boat Race five times and winner at Henley Royal Regatta
  • Hector McLean, rowed in the Boat Race and won Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta with his brother Douglas McLean
  • Michael Meacher, Labour Party politician
  • Sir Frank Meyer, businessman and Conservative MP
  • Nathaniel Micklem, Liberal Party politician
  • Nathaniel Micklem, theologian, son of the above
  • Peter Francis Middleton, pilot and grandfather of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge[7]
  • Alasdair Milne, BBC Director General (1982–87)[8]
  • Kate Mosse, novelist
  • Sir Albert Napier, Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor’s Office
  • Sophie Newton, digital marketing entrepreneur
  • Junzaburō Nishiwaki, Japanese poet
  • Richard Ollard, historian and biographer
  • Rageh Omaar, broadcast journalist
  • Frank R. Palmer, linguist, lecturer at the University of Reading
  • William Pargeter, eighteenth-century physician known for his interest in mental illness
  • G. L. Peiris, Sri Lankan politician and academic
  • Sally Phillips, actress and writer
  • Rob Porter, former White House Staff Secretary in the Trump administration
  • Dennis Potter, playwright and journalist
  • Gerald Priestland, broadcaster and journalist
  • Nigel Rees, broadcaster and author
  • Susan Rice, American diplomat
  • Sir Bernard Rix (Lord Justice Rix), Judge, a Lord Justice of Appeal
  • Justine Roberts, founder CEO of Mumsnet and Gransnet
  • Alan Rodger, Baron Rodger of Earlsferry, Scottish-born Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
  • Neil Rudenstine, former President of Harvard University
  • Oliver Russell, 2nd Baron Ampthill, peer, rower and administrator who served as the Governor of Madras
  • Anthony Russell-Roberts, businessman and opera manager
  • Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi, United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
  • Madhavrao Scindia, Indian Cabinet Minister and Member of Parliament
  • Paul Seabright, economist
  • Tim Sebastian, broadcast journalist
  • Mel Smith, comedian and film director
  • Toby Spence, opera singer (tenor)
  • Rick Stein, chef, restaurateur and television presenter
  • William Stoughton, colonial American politician and judge
  • Sir Alexander Temple, landowner and MP
  • Adam Thirlwell, novelist
  • Frank Thompson, SOE officer
  • Alan Thornhill, sculptor
  • Daniel Topolski, rowing coach for Oxford, author of True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny
  • Francis Turner, 17th century Bishop of Ely
  • Julian Turner, poet
  • David Verney, 21st Baron Willoughby de Broke, UKIP peer
  • William Warham, former Archbishiop of Canterbury
  • Robert Penn Warren, poet, novelist and literary critic
  • William Waynflete, founder of Magdalen College and Lord Chancellor of England
  • Geoffrey Wheatcroft, journalist and author
  • M. Stanley Whittingham, lithium-ion battery pioneer and 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate
  • Benjamin Whitaker Labour politician and former MP
  • John Edgar Wideman, American writer, professor at Brown University
  • Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce
  • A. N. Wilson, author and journalist
  • Naomi Wolf, American feminist
  • James Woodforde, clergyman
  • Lucy Worsley, historian, author and television presenter
  • Philip Ziegler, historian

Fellows and staff[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ “The History of New College | New College”. www.new.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 13 April 2018. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e “Biological Sciences”. New College, Oxford. Archived from the original on 25 April 2016. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  3. ^ Garrard, James (2015). Archbishop Howley 1828-1848. The Archbishops of Canterbury Series. Farnham: Ashgate. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-4724-5133-0.
  4. ^ “Legg, Leopold George Wickham” in Who Was Who 1961–1970 (A & C Black, 1979 reprint, ISBN 0-7136-2008-0)
  5. ^ Archbishop Longley. Birmingham Diocese
  6. ^ ”Marshall, T. Outram”, in Society of the Holy Cross: The Romanising Conspirators at Work (London: Church Association, 1898) online at anglicanhistory.org
  7. ^ Townsend (and OUSU team), David J. “Oxford Handbook”. Oxford University Student Union 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2015. …New College…Famous alumni include….Peter (Francis) Middleton, grandfather of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  8. ^ Obituary: Alasdair Milne, telegraph.co.uk, 10 January 2013
  9. ^ “Alfred Jules Ayer”. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2005. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  10. ^ “G H Hardy’s Oxford Years” (PDF). Oxford University Mathematical Institute. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  11. ^ “Marcus du Sautoy, OBE”. New College, Oxford. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  12. ^ “From the archive, 1 September 1930: Obituary: Dr WA Spooner”. The Guardian. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  13. ^ “Tolkien, Christopher Reuel”. Routledge. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 16 April 2016.

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