List of alumni of Hertford College, Oxford explained

A list of alumni of Hertford College, Oxford, including alumni of its two predecessor institutions, Hart Hall and Magdalen Hall.

Hart Hall (1282–1740)

• Joseph Bowles, Bodley's Librarian
• Thomas Bray, clergyman and abolitionist
• Saint Alexander Briant, Jesuit martyr
• Henry Bromley, politician
• Morgan Coleman, MP for Newport, Cornwall
• John Donne, poet, Anglican priest
• Payne Fisher, poet
• Nicholas Fuller, Hebraist, philologist
• John Glynne, jurist
• Peter Heylyn, polemicist
• John Hutchins, antiquary
• Thomas Manton, Puritan clergyman and chaplain to Oliver Cromwell
• John Norden, cartographer
• Henry Pelham, British Whig Prime Minister
• John Selden, jurist, MP for Oxford University
• George Augustus Selwyn, politician
• Thomas Shirley, politician, soldier, adventurer, and privateer
• Jonathan Swift, satirist, poet, Anglican priest, author of Gulliver's Travels
• Henry Swinburne, ecclesiastical lawyer

Hertford College, first foundation 1740–1816

• Charles James Fox, Whig statesman
• John Hippisley, politician, diplomat

Magdalen Hall, old site 1480–1822

• Robert Ashley, writer
• Daniel Burgess, Presbyterian minister
• Matthew Bryan, Jacobite preacher
• Walter Charleton, Epicurean philosopher
• Samuel Daniel, poet, historian
• Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice
• Thomas Hobbes, political philosopher, author of Leviathan
• John Huckell, poet
• Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, historian, statesman
• John Gilbert, Archbishop of York
  • Narcissus Marsh, Primate of All Ireland Richard Morton, physician
• Philip Nye, clergyman and member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines
• Robert Plot, naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and first Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum
• John Rickman, statistician
• Obadiah Sedgwick, clergyman and member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines
• George Shaw, biologist
• Fleetwood Sheppard, courtier
• William Tyndale, Bible translator, Reformation martyr
• Henry Vane the Younger, Parliamentarian statesman
• Sir Ralph Verney, 1st Baronet, of Middle Claydon, politician
• William Waller, Parliamentarian soldier
• John Wilkins, naturalist, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, and founder of the Royal Society
• Benjamin Woodbridge, clergyman and controversialist

Magdalen Hall, new site 1822–1874

• Montagu Burrows, first Chichele Professor of Modern History
• William Robinson Clark, theologian
• William Cowper, first Dean of Sydney
• John Thadeus Delane, journalist
• Clement Jackson, founder of the Amateur Athletic Association
• Arthur Mayo VC, soldier
• Francis McDougall, first Anglican bishop of Labuan and the Kingdom of Sarawak
• Brownlow North, evangelist
• Thorold Rogers, political economist
• William Williams, first Anglican Bishop of Waiapu, New Zealand
• Leonard Williams, third Bishop of Waiapu (son of William Williams)
• Nathaniel Woodard, Priest in the Church of England, founder of the Woodard Corporation

Hertford College, second foundation 1874–

• Richard Addinsell, composer of film music
• Helen Alexander, businesswoman
• C. A. J. Armstrong, historian
• Sharon Ashbrook, chemist
• Bernard Ashmole, archaeologist, art historian
• Andrea Ashworth, author, academic
• Christopher Ballinas Valdés, Mexican public policy expert and civil servant
• Edmund Bartley-Denniss, politician and cyclist
• Charles Bean, war correspondent and historian
• John Behan, educationist, jurist
• Marian Bell, economist
• Catherine Bennett, journalist
• David Blomfield, leader of the Liberal Party group on Richmond upon Thames Council, writer, book editor and local historian^[1]
• Martin Bridson FRS, mathematician
• Jasmine Brown, author
• Isaac Hawkins Browne, industrialist
• Fiona Bruce, BBC newsreader
• Rupert Bruce-Mitford, archaeologist and scholar
• Anthony Bushell, actor
• Carole Cadwalladr, journalist
• Walter Carey, clergyman
• Victor Cha, national security specialist
• Jean Chapdelaine, diplomat
• Calvin Cheng, Singapore modelling agency head, former Nominated Member of Parliament
• William Robinson Clark, theologian
• Nick Cohen, political journalist
• Geoffrey Corbett, civil servant and mountaineer^[2]
• W. Maxwell Cowan, neuroscientist
• Sherard Cowper-Coles, diplomat
• George Dangerfield, journalist, historian
• Daniel Dennett, philosopher of the mind
• David Dilks, historian
• Jack Herbert Driberg, anthropologist
• Bill Duff, Arabist
• Jack Duppa-Miller, sailor
• Alfred Earle, bishop
• J. Meade Falkner, novelist, The Lost Stradivarius
• Richard W. Fisher, diplomat
• Warren Fisher, civil servant
• Adam Fleming, BBC newsreader
• Thomas Fletcher, diplomat
• Nicholas Foulkes, historian, journalist
• Henry Sanderson Furniss, 1st Baron Sanderson, socialist educationalist
• Helen Ghosh, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, former Director-General of the National Trust.
• Pinny Grylls, documentary film maker
• Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Channel 4 newsreader
• Gideon Henderson, geochemist, climate-change scientist
• Nicholas Henderson, diplomat
• Jeremy Heywood, civil servant
• Leonard Hodgson, church historian
• Jeffrey John, Dean of St Alban's Cathedral
• James John Joicey, amateur entomologist
• Mark S. Joshi, financial mathematician
• Natasha Kaplinsky, ITN newsreader
• Khalid Jawed Khan, Attorney General of Pakistan
• Soweto Kinch, jazz saxophonist, rapper
• Mark A. Lemmon FRS, Chair of Pharmacology at Yale University School of Medicine
• Seth Lerer, literary critic
• Alain LeRoy Locke, writer of the Harlem Renaissance
• Jurek Martin, journalist
• Ronald Martland, former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
• Gavin Maxwell, naturalist, author of Ring of Bright Water
• Arthur Mayo, recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Roland Michener, former Governor General of Canada
• Dom Mintoff, former Prime Minister of Malta
• Ian Morison FRAS, 35th Gresham Professor of Astronomy
• David Naylor, medical researcher
• Edward Max Nicholson, founder of the World Wildlife Fund
• Richard Norton-Taylor, journalist, playwright
• Elizabeth Norton, historian and author
• Richard Parsons, founder of CGP Guides
• Peter Pears, tenor
• Barbara A. Perry, constitutional lawyer
• James Pettifer, scholar of the Balkans
• Bridget Phillipson, MP for Houghton and Sunderland South
• Tracey Poirier, Rhodes Scholar, first female Vermont Army National Guard general officer^{[3] [4]}
• Maisie Richardson-Sellers, actor
• Nigel Saul, historian
• Joseph Gordon Saunders, composer
• Jacqui Smith, former British Home Secretary
• David Spedding, former Head of MI6
• Manisha Tank, CNN newsreader
• Thum Ping Tjin, the first Singaporean to swim the English Channel
• Ed Vulliamy, journalist and world reporter
• Evelyn Waugh, author of Brideshead Revisited, journalist
• Roger Westbrook, diplomat^[5]
• Byron White, U.S. Associate Supreme Court Justice
• Athol Williams, South African poet and social philosopher
• Tobias Wolff, author of This Boy's Life
• Nathaniel Woodard, educationalist
• Alison Young, legal scholar, Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law at the University of Cambridge

Notes and References

1. The Man in the Iron Mask . Hertford College News . MacDonald . Roger . 2005 . 12 . 16 July 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160724231533/http://www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/attachments/publications/2005%20Hertford%20College%20News%2C%20Issue%2012.pdf . 24 July 2016 . dead .
2. 'Sir G. L. Corbett' in The Times, issue 47832 dated 3 November 1937, p. 16
3. Povey . Alicia . 2019 . With Our Thanks: Donors By Matriculation . Hertford College Donor Report . Oxford, England . Hertford College . 32.
4. Web site: Biography, Colonel Tracey Poirier, Director of the Joint Staff . 2021 . vt.public.ng.mil . Vermont National Guard . Colchester, VT . September 5, 2023.
5. Book: Brunei Darussalam . 1985 . Department of Information, Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, Brunei Darussalam . 15 . en.