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Christ Church (the temple or house of Christ, and thus sometimes known as The House), is one of the largest constituent colleges
Colleges of the University of Oxford

The University of Oxford comprises 38 Colleges and 6 religious Permanent Private Halls , which are autonomous self-governing corporations within the university....
 of the University of Oxford
University of Oxford

The University of Oxford , located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation in the English-speaking world....
 in England. As well as being a college, Christ Church is also the cathedral
Cathedral

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 church of the diocese of Oxford
Diocese of Oxford

The Diocese of Oxford forms part of the Province of Canterbury in England....
, namely Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford

Christ Church Cathedral is the cathedral of the diocese of Oxford, which includes the City of Oxford, England, and the surrounding countryside as far north as Banbury....
. The cathedral has a famous men and boys' choir, and is one of the main choral foundations in Oxford
Oxford

Oxford is a City status in the United Kingdom, and the county town of Oxfordshire, in South East England. It has a population of 151,000. The rivers River Cherwell and River Thames run through Oxford and meet south of the city centre....
. It was founded as the Priory of
Priory of St Frideswide, Oxford

The priory of St Frideswide, Oxford was established as a priory of Augustinian regular canons, in 1122. It was set up by Gwymund, chaplain to Henry I of England....
 St Frideswide, Oxford, which was a house of the Augustinian canons that was later suppressed as a monastic church under Henry VIII's dissolution of monasteries.

Christ Church has traditionally been seen as the most aristocratic college in Oxford.






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Christ Church (the temple or house of Christ, and thus sometimes known as The House), is one of the largest constituent colleges
Colleges of the University of Oxford

The University of Oxford comprises 38 Colleges and 6 religious Permanent Private Halls , which are autonomous self-governing corporations within the university....
 of the University of Oxford
University of Oxford

The University of Oxford , located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation in the English-speaking world....
 in England. As well as being a college, Christ Church is also the cathedral
Cathedral

A cathedral is a Christian church that contains the seat of a bishop. It is a Religion building for worship, specifically of a denomination with an episcopal hierarchy, such as the Roman Catholic Church, Anglicanism, Orthodox Christian and some Lutheranism churches, which serves as a bishop's seat, and thus as the central church of a dioc...
 church of the diocese of Oxford
Diocese of Oxford

The Diocese of Oxford forms part of the Province of Canterbury in England....
, namely Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford

Christ Church Cathedral is the cathedral of the diocese of Oxford, which includes the City of Oxford, England, and the surrounding countryside as far north as Banbury....
. The cathedral has a famous men and boys' choir, and is one of the main choral foundations in Oxford
Oxford

Oxford is a City status in the United Kingdom, and the county town of Oxfordshire, in South East England. It has a population of 151,000. The rivers River Cherwell and River Thames run through Oxford and meet south of the city centre....
. It was founded as the Priory of
Priory of St Frideswide, Oxford

The priory of St Frideswide, Oxford was established as a priory of Augustinian regular canons, in 1122. It was set up by Gwymund, chaplain to Henry I of England....
 St Frideswide, Oxford, which was a house of the Augustinian canons that was later suppressed as a monastic church under Henry VIII's dissolution of monasteries.

Christ Church has traditionally been seen as the most aristocratic college in Oxford. However, today the proportion of undergraduates from maintained and independent schools is roughly equal, which is typical of most Oxford colleges. It has produced thirteen British prime ministers
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the political leader of the United Kingdom and the head of government Her Majesty's Government....
 (the two most recent being Anthony Eden
Anthony Eden

Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, Order of the Garter, Military Cross, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a British people Conservative Party politician, who was Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs for three periods between 1935 and 1955, including during World War II....
 from 1955-1957 and Sir Alec Douglas-Home
Alec Douglas-Home

Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, Order of the Thistle, Imperial Privy Council , 14th Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963, was a British Conservative Party politician, and served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a year from October 1963 to October 1964 ....
 from 1963–1964), which is more than any other Oxford or Cambridge college (and two short of the total number for the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge , located in Cambridge, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation university in the Anglosphere....
, fifteen).

The college is the setting for parts of Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was a United Kingdom writer, best known for such darkly humorous and Satire novels as Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Scoop , A Handful of Dust, and The Loved One, as well as for serious works, such as Brideshead Revisited and the Sword of Honour trilogy that clearly manifest his Catho...
's Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945....
, as well as Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll , was an England author, mathematics, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer....
's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a novel written by England author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a Rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures....
. More recently it has been used in the filming of the movies of J. K. Rowling
J. K. Rowling

Joanne "Jo" Rowling Order of the British Empire , who writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling, is a United Kingdom author, best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series, the idea for which was conceived whilst on a train trip from Manchester to London in 1990....
's Harry Potter
Harry Potter

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 series and also the film adaptation of Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman Order of the British Empire is an England novelist. He is the best-selling author of His Dark Materials , and a number of other books....
's novel Northern Lights
Northern Lights (novel)

Northern Lights, known as The Golden Compass across North America, is the first novel in England novelist Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy....
 (the film bearing the title of the US edition of the book, The Golden Compass). Distinctive features of the college's architecture have been used as models by a number of other academic institutions, including the National University of Ireland, Galway
National University of Ireland, Galway

The National University of Ireland, Galway is a Tertiary education educational institution located in Galway, Ireland. The university was founded in 1845 as Queen's College, Galway and was more recently known as University College, Galway ....
, which reproduces Tom Quad
Tom Quad

The Great Quadrangle more popularly known as Tom Quad, is one of the quadrangles of Christ Church, Oxford. It is the largest college quad in Oxford, measuring 264 by 261 feet....
. The University of Chicago
University of Chicago

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 and Cornell University
Cornell University

Cornell University located in Ithaca, New York, USA, is a private university with four Statutory college. Its two medical campuses are in New York City and Education City, Qatar....
 both have reproductions of Christ Church's dining hall (in the forms of Hutchinson Hall
Hutchinson Hall, University of Chicago

Hutchinson Hall at the University of Chicago is modelled, nearly identically, on the hall of Christ Church, Oxford, one of Oxford's constituent colleges....
 and Risley's dining hall respectively). Christ Church Cathedral, New Zealand
Christ Church (cathedral), New Zealand

The Anglican cathedral of ChristChurch in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand was built in the second half of the 19th century. It is located in the centre of the city, surrounded by the plaza of Cathedral Square, Christchurch....
, after which the City of Christchurch is named, is itself named after Christ Church, Oxford. Stained glass windows in the cathedral and other buildings are by the Pre-Raphaelite William Morris
William Morris

William Morris was an English architect, furniture and textile designer, artist, writer, and Socialism associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement....
 group with designs by Edward Burne-Jones
Edward Burne-Jones

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet was an England artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who worked closely with William Morris on a wide range of decorative arts as a founding partner in Morris & Co.....


Christ Church is also partly responsible for creation of University College Reading, which later gained its own Royal Charter and became the University of Reading
University of Reading

The University of Reading is a university in the England town of Reading, Berkshire. Established in 1892, receiving its Royal Charter in 1926, the University has a long tradition of research, education and training at a local, national and international level....
.

As of July 2007, the college has a financial endowment
Financial endowment

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 of around Ł250m.

Organisation

Chch Cathedral
Christ Church, formally titled The Dean, Chapter and Students of the Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford of the Foundation of King Henry the Eighth, is the only college in the world which is also a cathedral
Cathedral

A cathedral is a Christian church that contains the seat of a bishop. It is a Religion building for worship, specifically of a denomination with an episcopal hierarchy, such as the Roman Catholic Church, Anglicanism, Orthodox Christian and some Lutheranism churches, which serves as a bishop's seat, and thus as the central church of a dioc...
, the seat (cathedra
Cathedra

A cathedra is the chair or throne of a bishop. It is a symbol of the bishop's teaching authority in the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church, and has in some sense remained such in the Anglican Communion and in Lutheran church es....
) of the Bishop of Oxford
Bishop of Oxford

The Bishop of Oxford is the diocesan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Oxford in the Province of Canterbury; his seat is at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford....
. The Visitor
Visitor

A Visitor, in United Kingdom law and history, is an overseer of an autonomous Church body or charitable organization institution , who can intervene in the internal affairs of that institution....
 of Christ Church is the reigning British Sovereign, and the Bishop of Oxford is unique among English bishops in not being the Visitor of his own cathedral.

The head of the college is the Dean of Christ Church, who is a clergyman appointed by the Crown as dean
Dean (religion)

A dean, in a church context, is a cleric holding certain positions of authority within a religious hierarchy. The title is used mainly in the Anglican Communion and the Catholic Church....
 of the cathedral church. There is a Senior and a Junior Censor
Censor

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 (formally titled the Censor Moralis Philosphić and the Censor Naturalis Philosophić) the former of whom is responsible for academic matters, the latter for undergraduate discipline. A Censor Theologić is also appointed to act as the Dean's deputy.

The form "Christ Church College" is considered incorrect, in part because it ignores the cathedral, although it has historically been deemed acceptable.

Governing Body

The Governing Body of Christ Church consists of the Dean and Chapter
Chapter (religion)

Chapter designates certain corporate ecclesiology bodies in the Catholic Church, Anglicanism and Nordic Lutheranism churches.The word is said to be derived from the Chapter of the rule book: it is a custom under the Rule of Saint Benedict that monks gather daily for a meeting to discuss monastery business, hear a sermon or lecture, or rec...
 of the Cathedral, together with the Students of Christ Church, who are not students, but rather the equivalent of the Fellows
Fellow

A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. Historically, the term fellow was also used to describe a man, particularly by those in the upper social classes....
 of the other colleges
Colleges of the University of Oxford

The University of Oxford comprises 38 Colleges and 6 religious Permanent Private Halls , which are autonomous self-governing corporations within the university....
. Until the nineteenth century, the Students differed from Fellows by the fact that they had no governing powers in their own college.

History

Hall of Christ Church College
In 1525, at the height of his power, Thomas Cardinal Wolsey
Thomas Cardinal Wolsey

Thomas Cardinal Wolsey , who was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, was an English statesman and a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.When Henry VIII became king of England in 1509, Wolsey became the King's almoner....
, Lord Chancellor
Lord Chancellor

The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, or Lord Chancellor, is a senior and important functionary in the government of the United Kingdom....
 of England and Archbishop of York
Archbishop of York

File:Williamtemple1.jpgArchbishop of York is a high-ranking cleric in the Church of England, second only to the Archbishop of Canterbury. He is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of York and metropolitan bishop of the Province of York, which covers the northern portion of England as well as the Isle of Man....
, suppressed the Abbey of St Frideswide in Oxford and founded Cardinal College on its lands, using funds from the dissolution of Wallingford Priory
Wallingford Priory

Wallingford Priory was a Benedictine priory dedicated to the Holy Trinity in Wallingford in the England county of Berkshire .Nothing remains of Holy Trinity Priory, which is believed to have stood on the site of the Bullcroft recreation ground off the High Street....
. He planned the establishment on a magnificent scale, but fell from grace in 1529, before the college was completed.

In 1531 the college was itself suppressed, and refounded in 1532 as King Henry VIII's College by Henry VIII
Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was also Lordship of Ireland and claimant to the Early Modern France. Henry was the second monarch of the House of Tudor, succeeding his father, Henry VII of England....
, to whom Wolsey's property had escheat
Escheat

Escheat is a common law doctrine that operates to ensure that property is not left in limbo and ownerless. It originally referred to a number of situations where a legal interest in land was destroyed by operation of law, so that the ownership of the land reverted to the immediately superior feudalism lord....
ed. Then in 1546 the King, who had broken from the Church of Rome
Roman Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
 and acquired great wealth through the dissolution of the monasteries in England, refounded the college as Christ Church as part of the re-organisation of the Church of England
Church of England

The Church of England is the State religion Christianity Ecclesia in England, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the oldest among the communion's thirty-eight independent national and regional churches....
 and made it the cathedral of the recently created diocese of Oxford.

Christ Church's sister college
List of Oxbridge sister colleges

Most of the colleges forming the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford are paired into sister colleges across the two universities ....
 in the University of Cambridge is Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is one of the 31 Colleges of the University of Cambridge of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or University of Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduate students, and over 160 Fellows; however, counting only the student body it has somewhat fewer than Homert...
, founded the same year by Henry VIII. Since the time of Queen Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I was List of English monarchs and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the House of Tudor....
 the college has also been associated with Westminster School
Westminster School

The Royal College of St. Peter in Westminster, almost always known as Westminster School, is one of Britain's leading independent schools, with the highest Oxbridge acceptance rate of any secondary school or college....
, which continues to supply a significant number of undergraduates to the college.

Major additions have been made to the buildings through the centuries, and Wolsey's Great Quadrangle was crowned with the famous gate-tower designed by Sir Christopher Wren
Christopher Wren

Sir Christopher Wren was a 17th century England designer, astronomer, geometer, and one of the greatest English architects in history. Wren designed 53 London churches, including St Paul's Cathedral, as well as many secular buildings of note....
. To this day the bell in the tower, Great Tom, is rung 101 times at 9 p.m. Oxford time (9:05 p.m. GMT/BST
BST

BST is a three letter acronym that may refer to:...
) every night for the 100 original scholars of the college (plus one added in 1664). In former times this signalled the close of all college gates throughout Oxford. Although the clock itself now shows GMT/BST, Christ Church still follows Oxford time in the timings of services in the cathedral.

King Charles I
Charles I of England

Charles I was List of English monarchs, List of monarchs of Scotland and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his capital punishment on 30 January 1649....
 made the Deanery his palace and held his Parliament in the Great Hall during the English Civil War
English Civil War

The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Roundhead and Cavalier. The First English Civil War and Second English Civil War civil wars pitted the supporters of Charles I of England against the supporters of the Long Parliament, while the Third English Civil War saw fighting between supporters...
. In the evening of May 29, 1645, during the second siege of Oxford
Siege of Oxford

The Siege of Oxford was a Parliament of England victory late in the First English Civil War. Whereas the title of the event may suggest a single siege, there were in fact three individual engagements....
, a "bullet of IX lb. weight" shot from the Parliamentarians
Roundhead

"Roundheads" was the nickname given to the Puritan supporters of Parliament of England during the English Civil War. Also known as Parliamentarians, they were the supporters of Oliver Cromwell against Charles I of England ....
 warning-piece at Marston
Marston

Marston is the name of several places in the United Kingdom:*Marston, Cheshire*Marston, Herefordshire*Marston, Lincolnshire*Marston, Oxfordshire...
 fell against the wall of the north side of the Hall.

Student life

As well as rooms for accommodation, the buildings of Christ Church include the cathedral, one of the smallest in England, which also acts as the college chapel, a great hall, two libraries, two bars, and common room
Common room

The phrase common room is used especially in British and Canadian English to describe a type of shared lounge, most often found in dormitory, at university, military bases, hospitals, rest homes, hostels, and even minimum-security prisons....
s for dons, graduates and undergraduates. There are also gardens and a neighbouring sportsground and boat-house.

Accommodation is usually provided for all undergraduates, and for some graduates, although some accommodation is off-site. Accommodation is generally spacious with most rooms equipped with sinks and fridges. Many undergraduate rooms comprise 'sets' of bedrooms and living areas. Members are generally expected to dine in hall, where there are two sittings every evening, one informal and one formal (where jackets, ties and gowns are worn and Latin grace is read). The buttery
Buttery (shop)

In the Middle Ages, a buttery was a storeroom for liquor, the name being derived from the Latin and French language words for bottle or, to put the word into its simpler form a butt, that is, a cask....
 next to the Hall serves drinks around dinner time. There is also a college bar (known as the Undercroft), as well as a Junior Common Room (JCR) and a Graduate Common Room (GCR).
Oxford Library of Christ Church
There is a college lending library which supplements the university libraries (many of which are non-lending). Law students have the additional facility of the college law library, which has received large financial supplements from Christ Church law graduates. Most undergraduate tutorials are carried out in the college, though for some specialist subjects undergraduates may be sent to tutors in other colleges.

Croquet
Croquet

Croquet is a game played both as a recreational pastime and as a competitive sport which involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops embedded into the grass playing arena....
 is played in the Masters' Garden in the summer. The sports ground is mainly used for cricket
Cricket

Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games team sport that originated in southern England. The earliest definite reference is dated 1598, and it is now played in more than 100 countries....
, tennis
Tennis

Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....
, rugby
Rugby football

Rugby football may refer to a number of sports through history descended from a common form of football developed in different areas of England....
 and soccer. Rowing
Sport rowing

Rowing is a sport in which athletes racing against each other on rivers, lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline....
 and punting is carried out by the boat-house across Christ Church Meadow
Christ Church Meadow, Oxford

Christ Church Meadow is a famous flood-meadow, and popular walking and picnic spot in Oxford, England.Approximately triangular in shape it is bounded by the River Thames , the River Cherwell, and Christ Church, Oxford....
. The college owns its own punts which may be borrowed by students or dons.

The college beagle
Beagling

Beagling is the hunting of hares, rabbits, and occasionally foxes with beagles. A beagle pack is usually followed on foot. However, there is one pack of beagles in the U.S....
 pack (Christ Church and Farley Hill Beagles), which was formerly one of several undergraduate packs in Oxford, is no longer formally connected with the college or the university, but continues to be staffed and followed by undergraduates from across Oxford.

In June 2005, for the first time in 15 years, Christ Church held a white-tie Commemoration ball
Commemoration ball

A Commemoration ball or Commem. ball is a formal Ball held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford in the 9th week of Trinity Term, the week after the end of the last Full Term of the academic year, which known as "Commemoration Week"....
. Another was held on 14 June 2008.

Buildings

Christ Church has a number of architecturally significant buildings. These include:

  • Christ Church Library
    Christ Church Library

    Christ Church Library is a Georgian architecture which forms the south side of Peckwater Quadrangle in Christ Church, Oxford, England. It houses the college's modern lending library and early printed books on two floors....
  • Peckwater Quadrangle
    Peckwater Quadrangle

    The Peckwater Quadrangle is one of the Quadrangle s of Christ Church, Oxford, Oxford, England. It is on the site of a medieval inn, which was run by the Peckwater family and given to St Frideswide's Priory in 1246....
  • The Great Quadrangle or Tom Quad
    Tom Quad

    The Great Quadrangle more popularly known as Tom Quad, is one of the quadrangles of Christ Church, Oxford. It is the largest college quad in Oxford, measuring 264 by 261 feet....
     including Tom Tower
    Tom Tower

    Tom Tower is a bell tower in Oxford, England, named for its bell, Great Tom. It is over the main entrance of Christ Church, Oxford in Tom Quad, on St Aldate's....
  • Blue Boar Quadrangle
    Blue Boar Quadrangle

    A quadrangle of Christ Church, Oxford, designed by Hidalgo Moya and Philip Powell , and built between 1965 and 1968, Blue Boar Quadrangle has been described as "One of the best buildings of its kind during the expansion of higher education." by Andrew McIntosh, Baron McIntosh of Haringey, Minister for Department of Culture, Media and Sport....
  • Canterbury Quadrangle
  • The Old Library
  • Christ Church Hall
  • The Meadow Building
    The Meadow Building

    The Meadow Building is part of Christ Church, Oxford, England, looking out onto Christ Church Meadow. It was built in 1863 to the designs of Sir Thomas Deane in the Venice style ....
  • Christ Church Cathedral
    Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford

    Christ Church Cathedral is the cathedral of the diocese of Oxford, which includes the City of Oxford, England, and the surrounding countryside as far north as Banbury....
  • Christ Church Picture Gallery
    Christ Church Picture Gallery

    Christ Church Picture Gallery is a picture gallery at Christ Church, Oxford, Oxford, England. The gallery holds an important collection of about 200 Old Master paintings and nearly 2,000 drawings....


Cathedral Choir

The Choir, which is unique in the world as both a Cathedral
Cathedral

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 and College Choir, comprises twelve men and sixteen boys together with two organists. Six of the men are professionals (the lay clerks), and six are undergraduates (the academical clerks). The boys, whose ages range from eight to thirteen, are chosen for their musical ability and attend Christ Church Cathedral School
Christ Church Cathedral School

Christ Church Cathedral School is a Prep and Pre-Prep, fee-paying boarding and day school for approximately 140 pupils based in Oxford, England....
.

Throughout its history, the Choir has attracted many distinguished composers and organists - from its first director, John Taverner
John Taverner

John Taverner was an England composer and organist, regarded as the most important English composer of his era....
, appointed by Cardinal Wolsey in 1526, to William Walton
William Walton

Sir William Turner Walton Order of Merit was a United Kingdom composer and Conductor .His style was influenced by the works of Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Prokofiev as well as jazz music, and is characterized by rhythmic vitality, bittersweet harmony, sweeping Romantic music melody and brilliant orchestration....
. The present director of music (known as the Organist), is Stephen Darlington
Stephen Darlington

Stephen Darlington is a British choral director and conductor, and president of the Royal College of Organists from 1999-2001.During the early 1970s Darlington was organ scholar at Christ Church, Oxford, studying under Simon Preston....
. In recent years, the Choir has commissioned recorded works by contemporary composers such as John Tavener
John Tavener

Sir John Tavener is a United Kingdom composer,British honours systemed in 2000 for his services to music....
, William Mathias
William Mathias

William Mathias Order of the British Empire was a Wales composer....
 and Howard Goodall
Howard Goodall

Howard Goodall is a United Kingdom composer of musicals, choral music and music for television. He also presents music-based programming for television and radio....
.

The Choir, which broadcasts regularly, has many award-winning recordings to its credit and was recently the subject of a Channel 4 television documentary, Howard Goodall's Great Dates. The film was nominated at the prestigious Montreux TV Festival in the Arts Programme category - and has since been seen throughout the world. The Choir's collaboration with Goodall has also led to their singing his TV themes for Mr Bean and The Vicar of Dibley. They appeared in Howard Goodall's Big Bangs, broadcast in the United Kingdom on Channel 4
Channel 4

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 in March 2000.

Coat of arms

Christ Church Oxford Arms
The college arms, adopted (as with those of most Oxford colleges) apparently without authority, are those of Cardinal Wolsey, and are blazoned: Sable, on a cross engrailed argent, between four leopards' faces azure a lion passant gules; on a chief or between two Cornish choughs proper a rose gules barbed vert and seeded or. The arms are depicted beneath a red cardinal's hat with fifteen tassels on either side, and sometimes in front of two crossed croziers.

Christ Church Cathedral Arms
There are also arms in use by the cathedral, which were confirmed in a visitation of 1574. They are emblazoned: Between quarterly, 1st & 4th, France modern (azure three fleurs-de-lys or), 2nd & 3rd, England (gules in pale three lions passant guardant or), on a cross argent an open Bible proper edged and bound with seven clasps or, inscribed with the words "" and imperially crowned or.

Graces


The college preprandial grace reads:

A translation reads:

"We unhappy and unworthy men do give thee most reverent thanks, Almighty God, our heavenly Father, for the victuals which thou hast bestowed on us for the sustenance of the body, at the same time beseeching thee that we may use them soberly, modestly and gratefully.


And above all we beseech thee to impart to us the food of angels, the true bread of heaven, the eternal Word of God, Jesus Christ our Lord, so that the mind of each of us may feed on him and that through his flesh and blood we may be sustained, nourished and strengthened. Amen."


The first part of the grace is read by a scholar or exhibitioner of the House before formal Hall each evening, ending with the words Per Iesum Christum Dominum nostrum ("Through Jesus Christ our Lord"). The remainder of the grace, replacing Per Iesum Christum, etc., is usually only read on special occasions:

There is also a long postprandial grace intended for use after meals, but this is rarely used. When High Table rises (by which time the Hall is largely empty), the senior member on High Table simply says Benedicto benedicatur ("Let the Blessed One be blessed", or "Let a blessing be given by the Blessed One"), instead of the college postprandial grace:

Versicle:


Response:


Christ Church references

"Midnight has come and the great Christ Church bell
And many a lesser bell sound through the room;
And it is All Souls' Night..." — W B Yeats, All Souls' Night, Oxford (1920)

"The wind had dropped. There was even a glimpse of the moon riding behind the clouds. And now, a solemn and plangent token of Oxford's perpetuity, the first stroke of Great Tom sounded." — Max Beerbohm
Max Beerbohm

Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm was an English Parody and Caricature....
, Chapter 21, Zuleika Dobson
Zuleika Dobson

Zuleika Dobson is a 1911 novel by Max Beerbohm, a satire of undergraduate life at University of Oxford. It was his only novel, but was nonetheless very successful....
 (1922)

"I must say my thoughts wandered, but I kept turning the pages and watching the light fade, which in Peckwater, my dear, is quite an experience -- as darkness falls the stone seems positively to decay under one's eyes. I was reminded of some of those leprous facades in the vieux port at Marseille, until suddenly I was disturbed by such a bawling and caterwauling as you never heard, and there, down in the little piazza, I saw a mob of about twenty terrible young men, and do you know what they were chanting We want Blanche. We want Blanche! in a kind of litany." — Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was a United Kingdom writer, best known for such darkly humorous and Satire novels as Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Scoop , A Handful of Dust, and The Loved One, as well as for serious works, such as Brideshead Revisited and the Sword of Honour trilogy that clearly manifest his Catho...
, Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945....
 (1945)

"Those twins / Of learning that he [Wolsey] raised in you,
Ipswich and Oxford! one of which fell with him,
Unwilling to outlive the good that did it;
The other, though unfinish'd, yet so famous,
So excellent in art, and still so rising,
That Christendom shall ever speak his virtue." — William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
, Henry VIII

"By way of light entertainment, I should tell the Committee that it is well known that a match between an archer and a golfer can be fairly close. I spent many a happy evening in the centre of Peckwater Quadrangle
Peckwater Quadrangle

The Peckwater Quadrangle is one of the Quadrangle s of Christ Church, Oxford, Oxford, England. It is on the site of a medieval inn, which was run by the Peckwater family and given to St Frideswide's Priory in 1246....
 at Christ Church, with a bow and arrow, trying to put an arrow over the Kilcannon building into the Mercury Pond in Tom Quad
Tom Quad

The Great Quadrangle more popularly known as Tom Quad, is one of the quadrangles of Christ Church, Oxford. It is the largest college quad in Oxford, measuring 264 by 261 feet....
. On occasion, the golfer would win and, on occasion, I would win. Unfortunately, that had to stop when I put an arrow through the bowler hat of the head porter. Luckily, he was unhurt and bore me no ill will. From that time on he always sent me a Christmas card which was signed 'To Robin Hood from the Ancient Briton'" — Lord Crawshaw, House of Lords
House of Lords

The House of Lords is the second house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is also commonly referred to as "the Lords". The Parliament comprises the British monarchy, the British House of Commons , and the Lords....
 Hansard
Hansard

Hansard is the traditional name for the printed Transcription of parliamentary debates in the Westminster system of government. In addition to the Parliament of the United Kingdom and the UK's devolved institutions, a Hansard is maintained for the Parliament of Canada and the Canadian provincial legislatures, the Parliament of Australia and...
, Tuesday 8 Jul 1997

Deans of Christ Church


Cardinal College

  • 1525 John Hygdon
    John Hygdon

    John Hygdon ? or Hygden ? , President of Magdalen College, Oxford, University of Oxford , became the first Dean of Cardinal College and from 1532?3 of its successor, King Henry VIII's College ....


King Henry VIII's College

  • 1532 John Hygdon
    John Hygdon

    John Hygdon ? or Hygden ? , President of Magdalen College, Oxford, University of Oxford , became the first Dean of Cardinal College and from 1532?3 of its successor, King Henry VIII's College ....
  • 1533 John Oliver


Christ Church

  • 1546 Richard Cox
    Richard Cox (bishop)

    Richard Cox was an England clergyman, who was Dean of Westminster Abbey and Bishop of Ely....
  • 1553 Richard Marshall
    Richard Marshall

    Richard Jaquelin Marshall was a Major general in the United States Army.He served in the U.S. 1st Infantry Division during World War I and became the Chief of Staff of Army Forces in the Pacific by the end of World War II....
  • 1559 George Carew
    George Carew

    George Carew was an England diplomat and historian, the second son of Sir Wymond Carew of Antony, Cornwall. He was educated at Oxford University and entered the Inns of Court before travelling abroad....
  • 1561 Thomas Sampson
    Thomas Sampson

    Thomas Sampson was an English Puritan theologian. A Marian exile, he was one of the Geneva Bible translators. On his return to England, he had trouble with conformity to the Anglican practices....
  • 1565 Thomas Godwin
    Thomas Godwin

    Thomas Godwin may refer to:*Thomas Godwin , English cleric*Thomas Godwin , Virginia colonial politician, Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses...
  • 1567 Thomas Cooper
    Thomas Cooper (bishop)

    Thomas Cooper was an England bishop, lexicographer, and writer....
  • 1570 John Piers
    John Piers

    John Piers was Archbishop of York between 1589?1594. Previous to that he had been Bishop of Rochester and Bishop of Salisbury....
  • 1576 Tobie Matthew
    Tobie Matthew

    Sir Tobie Matthew or Mathew was an English courtier under James I and Charles I, born in Salisbury, who converted to Roman Catholicism and became a priest....
  • 1584 William James
    William James

    William James was a pioneering American psychology and philosophy trained as a medical doctor. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religion experience and mysticism, and the philosophy of pragmatism....
  • 1596 Thomas Ravis
    Thomas Ravis

    Thomas Ravis was a Church of England clergyman and academic....
  • 1605 John King
    John King (bishop of London)

    John King was a Church of England clergyman and bishop of London from 1611–1621.John King was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford....
  • 1611 William Goodwin
  • 1620 Richard Corbet
    Richard Corbet

    Richard Corbet or Corbett was an English language bishop in the Church of England. He was also a poet of the metaphysical poetry school who, although highly praised in his own lifetime, is relatively obscure today....
  • 1629 Brian Duppa
    Brian Duppa

    Brian Duppa was an English bishop, a noted Royalist and adviser to Charles I of England....
  • 1638 Samuel Fell
  • 1648 Edward Reynolds
    Edward Reynolds

    Edward Reynolds was a bishop of Norwich in the Church of England and an author.He was born in Holyrood parish Southampton, the son of Augustine Reynolds, one of the customers of the city, and his wife, Bridget....
  • 1651 John Owen
    John Owen (theologian)

    John Owen was an England Nonconformist church leader and theologian....
  • 1659 Edward Reynolds
    Edward Reynolds

    Edward Reynolds was a bishop of Norwich in the Church of England and an author.He was born in Holyrood parish Southampton, the son of Augustine Reynolds, one of the customers of the city, and his wife, Bridget....
  • 1660 George Morley
    George Morley

    George Morley was an English bishop....
  • 1660 John Fell
    John Fell (clergyman)

    John Fell , served as Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, Oxford, and later concomitantly as Bishop of Oxford....
  • 1686 John Massey
  • 1689 Henry Aldrich
    Henry Aldrich

    Henry Aldrich was an England theology and philosopher....
  • 1711 Francis Atterbury
    Francis Atterbury

    Francis Atterbury , was an England man of letters, politician and bishop....
  • 1713 George Smalridge
    George Smalridge

    George Smalridge, , was an England bishop....
  • 1719 Hugh Boulter
    Hugh Boulter

    Hugh Boulter, , was the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh , the Primate of All Ireland, from 1724 until his death. He also served as the chaplain to George I of Great Britain from 1719....
  • 1724 William Bradshaw
    William Bradshaw

    William Bradshaw, born in Thurles, County Tipperary, he was an Ireland recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for valour in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations forces....
  • 1733 John Conybeare
  • 1756 David Gregory
    David Gregory

    David Gregory was a professor of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford, and a commentator on Isaac Newton's Philosophi? Naturalis Principia Mathematica....
  • 1767 William Markham
    William Markham

    William Markham may refer to:* William Markham , English scholar and religious figure* William Markham , first acting governor of colonial Pennsylvania...
  • 1777 Lewis Bagot
    Lewis Bagot

    Lewis Bagot MA was an English cleric, the fifth son of Sir Walter Bagot, 5th Baronet of Blithfield Hall, Staffordshire, and younger brother of Baron Bagot....
  • 1783 Cyril Jackson
    Cyril Jackson

    Cyril Jackson was dean of Christ Church, Oxford 1783-1809.Jackson was born in Yorkshire, and educated at Westminster School and the University of Oxford....
  • 1809 Charles Henry Hall
  • 1824 Samuel Smith
  • 1831 Thomas Gaisford
    Thomas Gaisford

    Thomas Gaisford was an England classical scholar.He was born at Iford Manor, Wiltshire, and entered the University of Oxford in 1797, becoming successively student and tutor of Christ Church, Oxford....
  • 1855 Henry George Liddell
  • 1892 Francis Paget
    Francis Paget

    The Rt Francis Paget was the 33rd Bishop of Oxford from 1901 until his death. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford. Ordained priest he became preacher at Whitehall in 1882 and Vicar of Bromsgrove in 1885....
  • 1901 Thomas Banks Strong
    Thomas Banks Strong

    Thomas Banks Strong was an English theologian who was Bishop of Diocese of Ripon and Diocese of Oxford. He was also Dean of Christ Church, Oxford and served as Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University during the First World War....
  • 1920 Henry Julian White
    Henry Julian White

    Henry Julian White was a biblical scholar. He was born in Islington and educated at Oxford. He was ordained in 1886, becoming the domestic chaplain of John Wordsworth in the same year....
  • 1934 Alwyn Terrell Petre Williams
  • 1939 John Lowe
    Dean John Lowe

    The Very Reverend Professor John Lowe was Dean of Christ Church, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford .Born in Calgary, Alberta, he studied at University of Trinity College and went on to University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar ....
  • 1959 Cuthbert Aikman Simpson
  • 1969 Henry Chadwick
    Henry Chadwick (theologian)

    Henry Chadwick Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom academic and Church of England clergyman. A former Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford ? and as such also head of Christ Church, Oxford, University of Oxford ? he also served as Master of Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, becoming the first person in four centuries to ha...
  • 1979 Eric William Heaton
    Eric William Heaton

    Eric William Heaton MA was an Old Testament scholar and a former Dean of Christ Church, Oxford .Eric Heaton's father was a sheep farmer at Long Preston in the West Riding of Yorkshire....
  • 1991 John Henry Drury
  • 2003 Christopher Andrew Lewis
    Christopher Andrew Lewis

    The Very Reverend Christopher Andrew Lewis is Dean of Christ Church, Oxford....


Notable members

Listed alphabetically by surname (or peerage if best known by that).

Prime Ministers
  • George Canning
    George Canning

    George Canning was a British statesman and politician who served as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and briefly Prime Minister of the United Kingdom....
     (1770-1827), Prime Minister
  • Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
    Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby

    Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Order of the Garter, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was an England statesman, three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and to date the longest serving leader of the Conservative Party ....
     (1799-1869), Prime Minister
  • Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel
    Alec Douglas-Home

    Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, Order of the Thistle, Imperial Privy Council , 14th Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963, was a British Conservative Party politician, and served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a year from October 1963 to October 1964 ....
     (1903-1995), Prime Minister
  • Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon
    Anthony Eden

    Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, Order of the Garter, Military Cross, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a British people Conservative Party politician, who was Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs for three periods between 1935 and 1955, including during World War II....
     (1897-1977), Prime Minister
  • William Ewart Gladstone
    William Ewart Gladstone

    William Ewart Gladstone was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Liberal Party statesman and four times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ....
     (1809-1898), Prime Minister
  • George Grenville
    George Grenville

    George Grenville , was a Kingdom of Great Britain British Whig Party statesman who served in government for the relatively short period of seven years, reaching the position of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom....
     (1712-1770), Prime Minister
  • William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
    William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville

    William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville Privy Council of the United Kingdom , was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland British Whig Party statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom....
     (1759-1834), Prime Minister
  • Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
    Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool

    Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool was a United Kingdom politics and the longest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since the Act of Union 1800 in 1801....
     (1770-1828), Prime Minister
  • Sir Robert Peel
    Robert Peel

    Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet was the Conservative Party Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 December 1834 to 8 April 1835, and again from 30 August 1841 to 29 June 1846....
     (1788-1850), Prime Minister
  • William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
    William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland

    William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland Privy Council , was a Kingdom of Great Britain British Whig Party and Tory statesman, List of Chancellors of the University of Oxford and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom....
     (1738-1809), Prime Minister
  • Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
    Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

    Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Order of the Garter, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a United Kingdom Liberal Party statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, also known as Archibald Primrose and Lord Dalmeny ....
    , (1847-1929), Prime Minister
  • Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
    Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

    Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Order of the Garter, Royal Victorian Order, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known as Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and as Viscount Cranborne from 1865 until 1868, was a United Kingdom statesman and thrice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, serving for a total...
     (1830-1903), Prime Minister
  • William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
    William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne

    William Petty-FitzMaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, Knight of the Garter, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known as The Earl of Shelburne between 1761 and 1784, by which title he is generally known to history, was a Kingdom of Great Britain British Whig Party statesman who was the first Home Secretary in 1782 and then Prime Minis...
     (1737-1805), Prime Minister


Arts and media
  • Sir Harold Acton
    Harold Acton

    Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom writer, scholar and dilettante who is probably most famous for being believed, incorrectly, to have inspired the character of "Anthony Blanche" in Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited ....
     (1904-1994) writer and scholar
  • Sir Thomas Armstrong
    Thomas Armstrong

    Sir Thomas Armstrong was an English people organist, conducting, educationalist and adjudicator. He had a substantial influence on British music for well over half a century....
     (1898-1994), musician
  • W. H. Auden
    W. H. Auden

    Wystan Hugh Auden who signed his works W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century....
     (1907-1973), poet
  • Sir Adrian Boult
    Adrian Boult

    Sir Adrian Cedric Boult Order of the Companions of Honour was an English Conducting....
     (1889-1983), conductor
  • Kenneth Barnes
    Kenneth Barnes

    Sir Kenneth Ralph Barnes was director of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England, from 1909 until 1955. He took over the Academy of Dramatic Art five years after its foundation and turned it into one of the foremost acting schools in the world....
     (1878-1957), Director of R.A.D.A.
  • Robert Burton
    Robert Burton (scholar)

    Robert Burton was an England scholar and vicar at University of Oxford, best known for writing The Anatomy of Melancholy....
     (1577-1640), writer of 'The Anatomy of Melancholy'
  • Lewis Carroll
    Lewis Carroll

    Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll , was an England author, mathematics, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer....
     (1832-1898), (real name, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), writer, clergyman and mathematician
  • Apsley Cherry-Garrard
    Apsley Cherry-Garrard

    Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard was an England explorer of Antarctica. He was a survivor of the Terra Nova Expedition and is acclaimed for his historical account of this expedition, The Worst Journey in the World....
     (1886-1959), Antarctic explorer and writer
  • Laurence Cummings
    Laurence Cummings

    Laurence Cummings, Master of Arts , Royal College of Music, Royal College of Organists, Royal Academy of Music is a harpsichordist, organist, and Conductor ....
     - conductor, organist, harpsichordist
  • Richard Curtis
    Richard Curtis

    Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis, Order of the British Empire is a BAFTA Awards, Primetime Emmy Award- winning and Academy Award - nominated United Kingdom screenwriter, music producer, actor and film director, known primarily for romantic comedy films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, ''Bridget Jones's Diary , ''Notting Hill and '...
     (1956-), comedy writer
  • David Dimbleby
    David Dimbleby

    David Dimbleby is a long standing BBC TV Pundit , a presenter of current affairs and political Television program, and more recently, art and architectural history series....
     (1938-), broadcaster
  • Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
    Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava

    Sheridan Frederick Terence Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava was a British patron of the arts....
     (1938-1988), art patron
  • Geoffrey Faber
    Geoffrey Faber

    Sir Geoffrey Cust Faber was a British academic, publisher and poet. He was educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford. He joined Oxford University Press in 1913....
     (1889-1961), publisher
  • Michael Flanders
    Michael Flanders

    Michael Henry Flanders Order of the British Empire, was an England actor, Broadcast journalism, and writer and performer of Novelty song. He is best known to the general public for his partnership with Donald Swann performing as the double act Flanders and Swann....
     (1922-1975), actor, writer and broadcaster
  • Peter Fleming (1907-1971), traveller and writer
  • Howard Goodall
    Howard Goodall

    Howard Goodall is a United Kingdom composer of musicals, choral music and music for television. He also presents music-based programming for television and radio....
     (1958-), composer and broadcaster
  • Bryan Guinness 2nd Lord Moyne (1905-1992) poet and brewer.
  • Desmond Guinness
    Desmond Guinness

    Desmond Guinness is an Irish author on Georgian art and architecture and a conservationist.Born on 8 September 1931, he was the second son of the author and brewer Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne and Diana Mitford....
     (1931-), conservationist and author.
  • Richard Hakluyt
    Richard Hakluyt

    Richard Hakluyt was an English writer. He is principally remembered for his efforts in promoting and supporting the settlement of North America by the English people through his works, notably Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America and The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation ....
     (1552-1616), writer
  • Anthony Howard
    Anthony Howard (journalist)

    Anthony Michell Howard is a prominent United Kingdom journalist, broadcaster and writer. He was the editor of the New Statesman, The Listener and the deputy editor of The Observer....
     (1934-), journalist and broadcaster
  • Sir Ludovic Kennedy
    Ludovic Kennedy

    Sir Ludovic Henry Coverley Kennedy is a United Kingdom journalist, Presenter, and author. He was knighthood in 1994 for services to journalism....
     (1919-), broadcaster and writer
  • Matthew Gregory Lewis
    Matthew Gregory Lewis

    Matthew Gregory Lewis was an England novelist and dramatist, often referred to as "Monk" Lewis, because of the success of his Gothic novel, The Monk....
     (1775-1818), novelist and dramatist
  • Harry Lloyd
    Harry Lloyd

    Harry Lloyd is an English actor, known for his role as Will Scarlett in Robin Hood ....
     (1983-), actor
  • S. P. B. Mais (1885-1975), author, journalist and broadcaster
  • Sir John Masterman
    John Cecil Masterman

    Sir John Cecil Masterman was a noted academic, sportsman and author. However, he was best known as chairman of the Twenty Committee, which during World War II ran the Double Cross System, the ingenious scheme that controlled double agents in United Kingdom....
     (1891-1977), academic, sportsman, author and spymaster
  • Adrian Mitchell
    Adrian Mitchell

    Adrian Mitchell FRSL was an England poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalism, he became a noted figure on the UK anti-authoritarian Left-wing politics....
     (1932–2008), poet, novelist and playwright
  • Norman Painting
    Norman Painting

    Norman Painting, Order of the British Empire is an actor who has played Phil Archer in the BBC BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers since the pilot episodes were aired on the BBC Midlands Home Service in summer 1950....
     (1924-), radio actor
  • Hugh Quarshie
    Hugh Quarshie

    Hugh Quarshie is a United Kingdom actor.Quarshie was born in Accra, Ghana, and emigrated with his family to the United Kingdom when he was aged three....
     (1954-), actor
  • John Ruskin
    John Ruskin

    John Ruskin was a British art critic and social thought, also remembered as an author, poet and artist. His essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian era and Edwardian period eras....
     (1819-1900), critic, poet and artist
  • Sir Philip Sidney
    Philip Sidney

    Sir Philip Sidney became one of the Elizabethan era most prominent figures. Famous in his day in England as a poet, courtier and soldier, he remains known as the author of Astrophel and Stella , The Defence of Poetry , and The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia ....
     (1554-1586), poet and soldier
  • Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope
    Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope

    Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope , was an England historian, better known as Lord Mahon. He was the son of the Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Stanhope....
    (1805-1875), founder of the National Portrait Gallery
  • J. I. M. Stewart
    J. I. M. Stewart

    John Innes Mackintosh Stewart was a Scotland novelist and academic. He is equally well-known for the works of literary criticism and "straight" novels published under his real name and for the "whodunits" published under the pseudonym of Michael Innes....
     (Michael Innes) (1906-1994), literary critic and novelist
  • Donald Swann
    Donald Swann

    Donald Ibrah?m Swann was a United Kingdom composer, musician and entertainer. He is best known to the general public for his partnership of writing and performing Novelty song with Michael Flanders ....
     (1923-1994), composer, musician and entertainer
  • John Taverner
    John Taverner

    John Taverner was an England composer and organist, regarded as the most important English composer of his era....
     (1490-1545), composer
  • Sir William Walton
    William Walton

    Sir William Turner Walton Order of Merit was a United Kingdom composer and Conductor .His style was influenced by the works of Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Prokofiev as well as jazz music, and is characterized by rhythmic vitality, bittersweet harmony, sweeping Romantic music melody and brilliant orchestration....
     (1902-1983), composer
  • James Twining
    James Twining

    James Twining is a United Kingdom Thriller writer....
     (1972-), novelist
  • Peter Warlock
    Peter Warlock

    Peter Warlock was a pseudonym of Philip Arnold Heseltine , an England-Welsh composer and music critic. Although he used his own name when writing as a music critic, he composed under the pseudonym "Peter Warlock" and is now better known by this name....
     (1894-1930), composer and critic
  • Auberon Waugh
    Auberon Waugh

    Auberon Alexander Waugh was a British author and journalist....
     (1939-2001), author and journalist


Politics and government
  • Sir Antony Acland
    Antony Arthur Acland

    Sir Antony Arthur Acland, Order of the Garter, Order of St Michael and St George, Royal Victorian Order, is a United Kingdom diplomat.The son of Peter Acland and Bridget Susan Barnett, he was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, gaining an Master of Arts in 1956....
     (1930-), Head of the Diplomatic Service
  • Jonathan Aitken
    Jonathan Aitken

    Jonathan William Patrick Aitken is a former Conservative Party Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom, and British government minister. He was convicted of perjury in 1999 and received an 18-month prison sentence, of which he served seven months....
     (1942-), Conservative politician
  • Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768-1854), soldier and politician
  • Robert Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster
    Robert Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster

    Robert Temple Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster Order of the Bath, Royal Victorian Order , son of the musician Thomas Armstrong, is a United Kingdom life peer and former civil servant....
     (1927-), Head of the Civil Service
  • Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
    Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

    Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was a Pakistani politician who served as the President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 and as Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1973 to 1977....
     (1928-1979), Pakistani statesman,Founder chairman Pakistan Peoples Party
  • George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham
    George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham

    George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham, knight of the Garter, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council was a United Kingdom statesman; he was the second son of George Grenville and a brother of the William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville....
     (1753-1813), statesman
  • Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (1886-1957), physicist and cabinet minister
  • Alan Clark
    Alan Clark

    Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician, historian and diarist. He also became a Privy Council of the United Kingdom, and was thus styled The Right Honourable Alan Clark, before which he held the courtesy title of The Honourable as the son of a peer....
     (1928-1999), politician and diarist
  • Frederick Curzon, 7th Earl Howe
    Frederick Curzon, 7th Earl Howe

    Frederick Richard Penn Curzon, 7th Earl Howe is a Conservative Party front bench member of the House of Lords, and is the party's Health spokesman in that house....
    , prominent Conservative Party statesman, was Defence Minister, Agriculture Minister, among others
  • Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester
    Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester

    Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Royal Society was a Kingdom of Great Britain statesman. He served under six Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, serving in cabinet positions from 1801 to 1817....
     (1757-1829), Speaker of the House of Commons
  • William Dowdeswell
    William Dowdeswell

    William Dowdeswell was an England politician.A son of William Dowdeswell of Pull Court, Bushley, Worcestershire, he was educated at Westminster School, at Christ Church, Oxford, then at the University of Leiden....
     (1721-1775), Chancellor of the Exchequer
  • Tom Driberg, Baron Bradwell
    Tom Driberg, Baron Bradwell

    Thomas Edward Neil Driberg, Baron Bradwell Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council was a United Kingdom journalist and politician who was an influential member on the left of the Labour Party from the 1950s to the 1970s....
     (1905-1976), politician and writer
  • John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville
    John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville

    John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, 7th Seigneur of Sark, Privy Council of Great Britain , commonly known by his earlier title as Lord Carteret, was a Kingdom of Great Britain statesman and Lord President of the Council from 1751 to 1763....
     (1690-1763), diplomat and statesman
  • Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville (1815-1891), politician and Foreign Secretary
  • Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone (1907-2001), Lord Chancellor
  • Michael Hicks-Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn
    Michael Hicks Beach

    Michael Edward Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn , known as Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt from 1854 to 1906 and as The Viscount St Aldwyn from 1906 to 1915, was an England statesman....
     (1837-1916), Chancellor of the Exchequer
  • Edward (Ted) Bigelow Jolliffe
    Ted Jolliffe

    Edward Bigelow "Ted" Jolliffe was a Canadian social democratic politician and lawyer. He was the first leader of the Ontario Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and leader of the Official Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario during the 1940s and 1950s....
     (1909-1998), Leader of the Opposition
    Leader of the Opposition (Ontario)

    The Leader of the Opposition in Ontario is usually leader of the largest party in the Ontario legislature which is not the government. The current official opposition is formed by the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, and John Tory is the current Leader of the Opposition....
     in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
    Legislative Assembly of Ontario

    The Legislative Assembly of Ontario , is the legislature of the Canada province of Ontario. It is located in the Ontario Legislative Building at Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario....
  • John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley
    John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley

    John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley Order of the Garter , Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known as the Lord Wodehouse from 1846 to 1866, was a British Liberal Party politician....
     (1826-1902), politician and Foreign Secretary
  • Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson
    Nigel Lawson

    Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , is a British Conservative Party politician and journalist who was Chancellor of the Exchequer between June 1983 and October 1989....
     (1932-), politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer
  • Francis Godolphin Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds (1759-1799), politician and Foreign Secretary
  • Sir George Cornewall Lewis
    George Cornewall Lewis

    Sir George Cornewall Lewis, 2nd Baronet was a United Kingdom statesman and man of letters....
     (1806-1863), writer, Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary
  • Edward Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford
    Edward Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford

    Edward Arthur Henry Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford was an Ireland Peerage of Ireland, Politics of the Republic of Ireland, and litt?rateur....
     (1902-1961)
  • Francis Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford (1905-2001), politician and social reformer
  • Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons
    Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons

    Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons, Order of the Bath, Order of St Michael and St George, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, DCL was an eminent British diplomat....
     (1817-1877), diplomat
  • William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
    William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

    William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield commonly known as Lord Mansfield Serjeant-at-law Privy Council of Great Britain was a British barrister, politician and judge....
     (1705-1793), Lord Chief Justice and Chancellor of the Exchequer
  • Sir Gilbert Murray
    Gilbert Murray

    George Gilbert Aim? Murray was a United Kingdom classical scholar and public intellectual, with connections in many spheres. He was an outstanding scholar of the language and culture of Ancient Greece, perhaps the leading authority in the first half of the twentieth century....
     (1866-1957), classical scholar and diplomat
  • Edward Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans
    Edward Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans

    Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans, Order of the Bath , deputy lieutenant, Doctor of Laws , Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a British politician....
     (1798-1877), politician
  • Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury
    Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury

    Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , is a British Conservative Party politician....
     (1946-), Conservative politician
  • Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801–1885), politician and philanthropist
  • Roger Mellor Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield (1904-1996), diplomat
  • Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
    Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

    Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is the chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party, and the eldest child of the late Pakistani politician and former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Ali Zardari, the current President of Pakistan....
     (Born 1988), Chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party
    Pakistan Peoples Party

    The Pakistan Peoples Party : is a centre-left political party in Pakistan affiliated with Socialist International. To date, its leader has always been a member of the Bhutto family....
    , grandson of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
    Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

    Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was a Pakistani politician who served as the President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 and as Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1973 to 1977....
     and son of Benazir Bhutto
    Benazir Bhutto

    Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani politician who chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party , a centre-left List of political parties in Pakistan. Bhutto was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim world, having twice been Prime Minister of Pakistan ....


Philosophy
  • Sir Alfred Ayer
    Alfred Ayer

    Sir Alfred Jules Ayer , better known as A. J. Ayer or "Freddie" to friends, was a British philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books Language, Truth and Logic and The Problem of Knowledge ....
     (1910-1989), philosopher
  • John Theophilus Desaguliers
    John Theophilus Desaguliers

    John Theophilus Desaguliers was a natural philosopher born in France. He was a member of the Royal Society of London beginning 29 July 1714. He was presented with the Royal Society's highest honour, the Copley Medal, in 1734, 1736 and 1741, the 1741 award being for his "discovery of the properties of Electricity"....
     (1683-1744), philosopher
  • Sir Michael Dummett
    Michael Dummett

    Knight Bachelor Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett Fellow of the British Academy Doctor of Letters is a leading British philosopher. He has both written on the history of analytic philosophy, and made original contributions to the subject, particularly in the areas of philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of logic, philosophy of language and me...
     (1925-), philosopher
  • John Locke
    John Locke

    John Locke was an English philosopher. Locke is considered the first of the British Empiricism, but is equally important to social contract theory....
     (1632-1704), philosopher
  • John Rawls
    John Rawls

    John Rawls was an United States philosopher and a leading figure in moral and political philosophy.Rawls received the Schock Prize for Logic and Philosophy and the National Humanities Medal in 1999, the latter presented by U.S....
    , (1921-2002), philosopher
  • Gilbert Ryle
    Gilbert Ryle

    Gilbert Ryle , was a United Kingdom philosopher, and a representative of the generation of British ordinary language philosophys influenced by Ludwig Wittgenstein's insights into language, and is principally known for his critique of Cartesian dualism, for which he coined the phrase "the ghost in the machine"....
     (1900-1976), philosopher
  • John Searle
    John Searle

    John Rogers Searle is an American philosopher and the Slusser Professor of Philosophy and Mills Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Language at the University of California, Berkeley ....
     (1932-), philosopher
  • Daniel Dennett
    Daniel Dennett

    Daniel Clement Dennett is a prominent United States Philosophy whose research centers on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science....
     (1942-), philosopher


Theology
  • Adam Blakeman
    Adam Blakeman

    Rev. Adam Blakeman was born in Gnosall, Staffordshire, England, June 10 1596. His birthplace is frequently misspelled in websites due to transcription errors from old records....
     (1596-1665), preacher and American settler
  • Percy Dearmer
    Percy Dearmer

    The Reverend Percy Dearmer Master of Arts , DD, was an English priest and liturgist best known as the author of The Parson's Handbook, an Anglo-Catholicism liturgical manual....
     (1867-1936), priest and liturgist
  • Trevor Huddleston
    Trevor Huddleston

    Ernest Urban Trevor Huddleston KCMG , was an Anglican priest, one-time Archbishop of Mauritius and the Indian Ocean, and most famous for his anti-Apartheid activism....
     (1913-1998), Archbishop of Mauritius and anti-Apartheid campaigner
  • Edward Bouverie Pusey
    Edward Bouverie Pusey

    Edward Bouverie Pusey , was an England churchman and Regius Professor of Hebrew at Christ Church, Oxford. He was one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement....
     (1800-1882), churchman and progenitor of the Oxford Movement
    Oxford Movement

    The Oxford Movement or Tractarianism was an affiliation of High Church Anglicans, most of whom were members of the University of Oxford, who sought to demonstrate that the Church of England was a direct descendant of the Church established by the Twelve apostles....
  • John Macquarrie
    John Macquarrie

    John Macquarrie British Academy Territorial Decoration was a Scottish-born theology and philosophy. Timothy Bradshaw has described Macquarrie as "unquestionably Anglicanism's most distinguished systematic theologian in the second half of the twentieth century."...
     (1919-2007), Christian Existentialist
  • Peter Martyr Vermigli
    Pietro Martire Vermigli

    Pietro Martire Vermigli, sometimes simply Peter Martyr , was an Italy theology of the Protestant Reformation period.He was born at Florence, the son of Stefano di Antonio Vermigli and Maria Fumantina, a moderately well-to-do family....
     (1499-1562), theologian
  • Eric Lionel Mascall
    Eric Lionel Mascall

    Eric Lionel Mascall Oratory of the Good Shepherd was a leading theologian in the Anglo-Catholic tradition of the Church of England. He was a philosophical exponent of the Thomist tradition and was Professor of Historical Theology at King's College London ....
     (1905-1993), Anglo-Catholic theologian
  • Charles Wesley
    Charles Wesley

    Charles Wesley was a leader of the Methodist movement, the younger brother of John Wesley. Despite their closeness, Charles and his brother did not always agree on questions relating to their beliefs....
     (1707-1788), Methodist preacher and hymnist
  • John Wesley
    John Wesley

    John Wesley was an Anglican cleric and Christian Christian theologian who founded the Arminianism Methodism. The Wesley Methodist Movement began when Wesley took over open-air preaching started by George Whitefield at Hanham, Kingswood, and Bristol....
     (1703-1791), leader of the Methodist movement
  • Rowan Williams
    Rowan Williams

    Rowan Douglas Williams is an Anglican Communion bishop and theologian. He is the current Archbishop of Canterbury, Metropolitan of the Province of Canterbury and Primate of All England, offices he has held since early 2003....
     (1950-), Archbishop of Canterbury


Viceroys and Governors General
  • William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (1773-1857), Governor-General of India
  • George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland
    George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland

    George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland, Order of the Bath , served as a politician in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and as Governor-General of India....
     (1784-1849), politician and Governor-General of India
  • Lord William Bentinck
    Lord William Bentinck

    Lord William Henry Cavendish-House of Bentinck was a United Kingdom statesman who served as Governor-General of India from 1828 to 1835. He was the second son of the William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, who was briefly Prime Minister of Great Britain....
     (1774-1839), soldier and Governor-General of India
  • Charles John Canning, 1st Earl Canning (1812-1862), politician and Governor-General of India
  • James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (1812-1860), politician and Governor-General of India
  • Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
    Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava

    Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Order of St Patrick, Order of the Bath, Order of the Star of India, Order of St Michael and St George, Order of the Indian Empire, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a United Kingdom public servant and prominent member of Victorian era society....
     (1826-1902), Governor-General of Canada and Viceroy of India
  • James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin
    James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin

    James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine, Order of the Thistle, Order of the Bath, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a British colonial administrator and diplomat, best known as the man who ordered the complete destruction of the Old Summer Palace in the Second Opium War by 3,500 British soldiers and as the Governor...
     (1811-1863), Governor-General of Canada and Viceroy of India
  • Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881-1959), Foreign Secretary and Viceroy of India
  • Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto
    Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto

    Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmond, 1st Earl of Minto was a Scotland politician and diplomat.His great-grandfather the 1st Baronet Minto was also the ancestor of Robert Louis Stevenson....
     (1751-1814), politician and Governor-General of India
  • Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook (1826-1904), Viceroy of India and First Lord of the Admiralty
  • Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley
    Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley

    Richard Colley Wesley, later Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley Order of the Garter, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was an Kingdom of Ireland politician and colonial administrator....
     (1760-1842), Foreign Secretary and Governor-General of India


Academia
  • Spencer Barrett
    Spencer Barrett

    Spencer Barrett British Academy, was an England classical scholar, Fellow and Sub-Warden of Keble College, Oxford, and Reader in Greek Literature in the University of Oxford....
     (1914-2001), classical scholar
  • Robert Blake, Baron Blake
    Robert Blake, Baron Blake

    Robert Norman William Blake, Baron Blake was an England historian. He is best known for his 1966 biography of Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, and for The Conservative Party from Peel to Churchill, which grew out of his 1968 Ford lecures....
     (1916-2003), historian
  • Robert Burchfield
    Robert Burchfield

    Robert William Burchfield New Zealand Order of Merit CBE was a scholar, writer, and lexicographer.Born in Wanganui, New Zealand,he studied at Victoria University of Wellington in Wellington, New Zealand and, later, at Magdalen College, Oxford, Oxford University in United Kingdom on a Rhodes Scholarship, where he was mentored by J.R.R....
     (1923-2004) scholar, writer, and lexicographer
  • Ronald Montagu Burrows
    Ronald Montagu Burrows

    Ronald Montagu Burrows was a British academic who served as Principal of King's College London from 1913-1920.He was educated at Charterhouse School and Christ Church, Oxford....
     (1867-1920), Principal of King's College London
    King's College London

    King's College London is a United Kingdom higher education institution and co-founding constituent college of the University of London. Founded by George IV of the United Kingdom and the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in 1829, its royal charter is predated, in England, only by those of the Universities of University of Oxford and Un...
     (1913–1920)
  • William Camden
    William Camden

    William Camden was an England antiquarian and historian. He wrote the first topographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland and the first detailed historical account of the reign of Elizabeth I of England....
     (1551-1623), antiquarian and historian
  • Richard Carew (1555-1620), translator and antiquary
  • Sir Raymond Carr
    Raymond Carr

    Sir Albert Raymond Maillard Carr British Academy Royal Historical Society Royal Society of Literature , known as Raymond Carr, is an England historian specializing in the history of Spain, Latin America, and Sweden who was Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford, from 1968 to 1987....
     (1919- ), historian
  • Sir William Deakin
    William Deakin

    Sir William Deakin was a historian, World War II veteran, and literary assistant to Winston Churchill.Deakin was educated at Westminster School, then at Christ Church, Oxford, where he began to develop a reputation as one of the most brilliant and dashing figures of his generation....
     (1913-2005), historian and diplomat
  • Edmund Gunter
    Edmund Gunter

    Edmund Gunter , England mathematician, of Wales descent, was born in Hertfordshire in 1581.He was educated at Westminster School, and in 1599 was elected a student of Christ Church, Oxford....
     (1581-1626), mathematician
  • Sir Roy Harrod
    Roy Harrod

    Sir Roy Forbes Harrod was an England economist. He, independently of Evsey Domar, developed an important economic model now called the Harrod-Domar model....
     (1900-1978), economist
  • Sir Michael Howard
    Michael Howard (historian)

    Sir Michael Eliot Howard, Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire, Military Cross is a retired United Kingdom military history, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, and Robert A....
     (1922-), historian
  • Richard William Jelf
    Richard William Jelf

    Richard William Jelf was the fourth Principal of King's College London.He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, and was subsequently made a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford....
     (1798-1871), Principal of King's College London
    King's College London

    King's College London is a United Kingdom higher education institution and co-founding constituent college of the University of London. Founded by George IV of the United Kingdom and the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in 1829, its royal charter is predated, in England, only by those of the Universities of University of Oxford and Un...
     (1843–1868)
  • Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones
    Hugh Lloyd-Jones

    Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones is a British classical scholar and Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University.He contributed editions of Menander Dyskolos and Sophocles to the Oxford Classical Texts, and editions and translations of the Aeschylus fragments and Sophocles to the Loeb Classical Library....
     (1922- ) classical scholar
  • Jan Morris
    Jan Morris

    Jan Morris Order of the British Empire is a British historian, author and travel writer. Morris was educated at Lancing College, West Sussex, and Christ Church, Oxford, but is Wales by heritage and adoption....
     (1926-), writer and historian
  • Prince Dmitriy Obolensky
    Dimitri Obolensky

    Sir Dimitri Obolensky was born Prince Dmitriy Dmitrievich Obolensky to Prince Dimitri Alexandrovich Obolensky and Countess Maria Shuvalov ....
     (1918-2001), historian
  • A. L. Rowse
    A. L. Rowse

    Alfred Leslie Rowse, Companion of Honour FBA , known professionally as A. L. Rowse and to his friends and family as Leslie, was a prolific Cornish people historian....
     (1903-1997), historian
  • Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre (1914-2003), historian


Science
  • Sir Joseph Banks
    Joseph Banks

    Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, Order of the Bath, President of the Royal Society was an England Natural history, Botany and patron of the natural sciences....
     (1743-1820), botanist
  • William Buckland
    William Buckland

    The Very Rev. Dr William Buckland Doctor of Divinity Royal Society was an English people geology, paleontology and Dean of Westminster, who wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur....
     (1784-1856), geologist, palaeontologist and omnivore
  • Sir Richard Doll
    Richard Doll

    Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll Order of the Companions of Honour Order of the British Empire Fellow of the Royal Society was a British physiologist who became the foremost epidemiologist of the 20th century, turning the subject into a rigorous science....
     (1912-2005), epidemiologist
  • Albert Einstein
    Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein was a Germany-born theoretical physics. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass?energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2....
     (elected to a 5-year research studentship
    Studentship

    A studentship is similar to a scholarship but involves summer work on a research project. The financial amount paid to the recipient is normally tax-free, but the recipient is required to fulfill work requirements....
     in 1931)
  • John Freind
    John Freind

    John Freind , England physician, younger brother of Robert Freind , headmaster of Westminster School, was born at Croton in Northamptonshire.He made great progress in classical knowledge under Richard Busby at Westminster, and at Christ Church, Oxford, under Henry Aldrich, and while still very young, produced, along with Peter Foulkes, an e...
     (1675-1728), physician and chemist
  • Sir Archibald Garrod
    Archibald Garrod

    Sir Archibald Edward Garrod was an England physician who pioneered the field of inborn error of metabolism. He was born on November 25 1857, in London, and died on March 28 1936, in Cambridge....
     (1857-1936), physician and pioneer molecular geneticist
  • Robert Hooke
    Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke, Fellow of the Royal Society was an England natural philosopher and polymath who played an important role in the scientific revolution, through both experimental and theoretical work....
     (1635-1703), scientist and inventor
  • John Kidd
    John Kidd

    John Kidd was an England physician, chemist and geology.John Kidd was born in Westminster, the son of a navy officer. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford....
     (1775-1851), physician, chemist and geologist
  • Sir John Maddox
    John Maddox

    Sir John Royden Maddox , a trained chemist and physicist, is a prominent science writer. He was an editor of Nature for 22 years.Sir John Maddox studied chemistry and physics at Christ Church, Oxford and King's College London....
     (1925-), science writer
  • Sir Martin Ryle
    Martin Ryle

    Sir Martin Ryle was an England radio astronomy who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sources....
     (1918-1984, radio astronomer
  • Sir Francis Simon
    Francis Simon

    Sir Francis Simon CBE, born Franz Eugen Simon , was a Germany and later Great Britain physical chemist and physicist who devised the method, and confirmed its feasibility, of separating the isotope Uranium-235 and thus made a major contribution to the creation of the atomic bomb....
     (1893-1956), physicist
  • Sir Denys Wilkinson
    Denys Wilkinson

    Sir Denys Haigh Wilkinson Fellow of the Royal Society is a UK nuclear physicist. He was educated at Loughborough Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge, Cambridge University....
     (1922-), nuclear physicist
  • Thomas Willis
    Thomas Willis

    Thomas Willis was an English people doctor who played an important part in the history of anatomy, neurology and psychiatry. He was a founding member of the Royal Society....
     (1621-1675), physician and neurologist
  • Sir Martin Wood
    Martin Wood

    File:Martin wood.jpg?Martin Wood is a television director who has been directing since the early 1990s. Specializing in science fiction, he has directed episodes of Stargate SG-1 , as well as its spin-off series Stargate Atlantis....
     (1927-), engineer


Other
  • John Boyd (1718-1800), art collector and sugar merchant
  • James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797-1868), Soldier and Commander of the Light Brigade at Balaclava
  • Edward VII of the United Kingdom
    Edward VII of the United Kingdom

    Edward VII was Monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death on 6 May 1910....
     (1841-1910), King-Emperor
  • William Penn
    William Penn

    William Penn was founder and "Absolute Proprietor" of the Province of Pennsylvania, the England North American colony and the future U.S. state of Pennsylvania....
     (1644-1718), founder of Pennsylvania
  • Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford
    Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford

    Marshal of the Royal Air Force Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford Order of the Garter Order of the Bath Order of Merit Distinguished Service Order Military Cross was a senior Royal Air Force officer and an advocate of strategic bombing....
     (1893-1971) Marshal of the Royal Air Force and Chief of the Air Staff, Second World War


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