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.

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 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

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 Indiahttps://www.onto.cc/cached/presidentsbio2006.htm Colorado College, President's Biography. Retrieved 1 September 2013 Sir John Eliot (1592–1632), statesman Matt Hancock (1978– ), MP for West Suffolk since 2010 Brad Hoylman (born 1965), New York State Senator 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 Shadow 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 Malcolm Patrick Murray (1905–1979), British civil servant Sir Oswyn Alexander Ruthven Murray (1873–1936), Permanent Secretary to the Admiralty, 1917–1936 Sir Robert Mark Russell (1929–2005), British Diplomat Major Thomas Close Smith (1878–1946), High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, 1942 David Warren, diplomat Neerav Patel (1984– ), diplomat and current British Ambassador to Qatar

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 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 Norman Bleehen (1930–2008), oncologist 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 John E. M. Midgley (1935–2023), British biochemist Arthur Peacocke (1924–2006), biochemist and theologian Paul Seymour (1950– ), mathematician

Historians Correlli Barnett (1927–2022), military historian Peter Brock (1920–2006), historian Robin Bush (1943–2010), Time Team historian Rev Nicolas Tindal (1687–1774), historian Francis Turville-Petre (1901–1941), archaeologist and excavator of the Galilee Man Pe Maung Tin (1888-1973), historian and linguist

Philosophers John Gray (1948– ), London School of Economics philosopher Christopher Peacocke (1950– ), philosopher

Artists, composers, writers and entertainers

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 Christopher Herrick, organist 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 Richard Tanner, organist 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 (1929–2018), athlete John Knapp (1841–1881), cricketer Jack Lovelock (1910–1949), athlete William Moore (1890–1956) , Olympic athlete Claude Wilson (1858–1881), footballer

Media 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 Mark Allen (1950– ), businessman and former British spy Sir Ronald Cohen (1945– ), businessman Dominic Cummings (1971– ), campaign director of Vote Leave and chief adviser to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson David Michael Webb (1965–2026), activist shareholder, corporate and economic governance activist

See also List of rectors of Exeter College, Oxford

References

External links College history