List of alumni of University College, Durham explained

University College, Durham is one of the constituent colleges of Durham University. The following is a list of notable people to have matriculated at the college.

Where known, degree type, subject and year of graduation are included.

Alumni

• Walter Adams, Archbishop of Yukon
• Lancelot Addison, Archdeacon of Dorset (1948–1955)
• John Anthony Allan (BA Geography, 1958), geographer and winner of Stockholm Water Prize^[1]
• Simon Ardizzone (BA, 1988), producer and director, Hacking Democracy
• K. B. Asante, Ghanaian diplomat
• Tim Atkin (BA Modern Languages, 1984), journalist and Master of Wine
• Richard Ayre, former BBC journalist
• Nigel Badnell, physicist
• Edward Baran, British newsreader^[2]
• Rob Beckley, Assistant Commissioner in London Metropolitan Police^[3]
• Henry Bell, cricketer and clergyman^[4]
• Edward Bickersteth, clergyman^[5]
• Crispin Blunt
• John Henry Blunt
• Edward Bradley, clergyman and author known for The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green
• Richard Brand, Archdeacon of Winchester
• David Breeze, archaeologist
• Eric Brereton, Dean of Glasgow and Galloway (1959–1962)
• Peter Bridgewater, Australian conservationist^[6]
• Aubrey Brocklebank, entrepreneur and aristocrat
• George Malcolm Brown, geologist
• Alex Burton, Royal Navy officer
• Clare Cameron, Ministry of Defence civil servant
• Peter Cardy, public servant
• Allan Cartner, continuity announcer for Border Television
• Jack Cattell
• Richard Dickinson Chambers, Professor of Chemistry at Durham^[7]
• Nicholas Chorley, 3rd Baron Chorley, British peer
• Cyrus Chothia (BSc, 1965), biochemist
• Frank Colquhoun, Church of England priest and author^[8]
• Rosemary Coogan, astronaut
• Harry Cook, martial artist^[9]
• Tim Crane, Professor of Philosophy at Central European University^[10]
• Neil Crompton, British diplomat, current British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
• Mike Cunningham, Chief Executive of the College of Policing (2018–2020)
• William Curzon-Siggers, Anglican priest and author
• Owen Dampier Bennett
• Charles Maurice Davies
• Hunter Davies, author
• Phil de Glanville, England rugby player
• John Douglas
• Jackie Doyle Price
• Guy Edwards, Formula 1 racing driver
• George Entwistle, former BBC executive
• Harold Evans
• John Exelby, British television executive^[11]
• Christopher Foster
• James Freeling
• George Frodsham
• Edward Frossard
• Charles Furneaux, TV producer and Up participant
• Chris Gibson-Smith, businessman; Chairman of London Stock Exchange Group
• Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg
• Frank Gillingham, cricketer
• Antony Good, cricketer
• John Goodall, historian and Architectural Editor of Country Life
• Roger Goodman, Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies at the University of Oxford
• James Goss, High Court judge
• William Greenwell, antiquarian
• Miles Gregory, theatre director and producer
• Bill Gunston, aviation author
• Paul Lewis Hancock, geologist
• Ernest Hayes
• Samuel Heaslett
• James Henderson
• Allan Hill, demographer; Andelot Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health^[12]
• George Hills, Anglican bishop
• Edmund Hobhouse, Anglican bishop
• Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford
• George Frederick Holmes
• Robert Hornby
• James Horstead
• Walsham How
• Tessa Howard, field hockey player
• Jules Hudson, archaeologist
• Malcolm K. Hughes, climatologist
• Simon Hughes, cricketer and journalist nicknamed The Analyst
• Henry Hyde, priest
• Kumar Iyer, Director General for Economics, Science and Technology at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
• David Jennings, composer
• John Jones, Anglican priest; Archdeacon of St Asaph
• Thomas Kerr, engineer; Director of the Royal Aircraft Establishment^[13]
• Christopher Kitching, archivist
• Gerald Knox, cricketer
• Christopher Lamb, journalist
• Timothy Laurence
• Craig Lawrence, former British Army officer, author and lecturer
• John Lawton, ecologist
• Edward Leigh, Conservative MP
• Andy Lines, Anglican bishop
• Peter Liss, environmental scientist
• Evered Lunt, Anglican bishop
• William Herrick Macaulay, mathematician and Vice-Povost of King's College, Cambridge
• Angus MacFarlane-Grieve
• Baret Magarian, writer
• Jane Marriott
• Guy Marshall, Anglican bishop
• Richard Massey, physicist
• Rachel McCarthy
• David Mercer, playwright
• Richard Mercer, cricketer
• Piers Merchant
• Huw Merriman
• Ed Mitchell, presenter for ITN
• James Montgomery, Anglican priest
• David Moore, botanist
• James Morris, cricketer
• Rory Morrison, BBC Radio 4 newsreader
• Peter Ogden, founder of Computacenter
• George Ornsby, antiquarian
• Denis Osborne, physicist and diplomat
• Chris Oti, England rugby player
• James Palmes, Archdeacon of the East Riding (1892–1898)
• Frank Pasquill, meteorologist^[14]
• Robin Pedley, educationist^[15]
• Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, clergyman and arachnologist
• Maurice Berkeley Portman
• Arthur Prowse, physicist and academic administrator; founding Master of Van Mildert College^[16]
• James Raine, antiquarian and Chancellor of York Minster^[17]
• Sir Thomas Richardson-Bunbury, 6th Baronet
• Andrew Ritchie, British Army officer; Commandant of the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst (2003–2006)
• Dan Rivers, correspondent at ITV News
• Charles Robertson, priest
• Jonathan Rougier, Professor of Statistical Science at the University of Bristol^[18]
• David Sadler, Professor of Human Geography
• Brian Scarlett, particle technologist^[19]
• Caleb Scharf, physicist^[20]
• Robert Senior, advertising executive
• John Sewel, Baron Sewel, member of the House of Lords^[21]
• Graeme Shimmin, science fiction novelist
• Edward Shortt, lawyer and politician; Home Secretary (1919–1922)^[22]
• Gareth Sibson, writer and broadcaster
• Bertram Simpson, Bishop of Kensington (1932–1942)
• Sir John Sinclair, 3rd Baronet, landowner and politician^[23]
• Ian Smail, physicist^[24]
• Peter Snowdon, historian and journalist
• Martin St Quinton, horse racing entrepreneur
• Howard Stableford, television and radio presenter
• Ben Starr, actor
• Philip Steele, author of children's non-fiction
• Joseph Stevenson, antiquarian
• Jhathavedh Subramanyan, Hong Kong cricketer
• Paul Sutcliffe, Professor of Theoretical Physics at Durham
• Michael Tavinor, Dean of Hereford (2002–2021)
• Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem (MA, 1984), Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem^[25]
• Thomas Charles Thompson, Liberal Party politician^[26]
• Maurice Tucker, Professor of Geology and Master of University College, Durham (1998–2011)
• Mike Tuffrey, Liberal Democrat politician
• Garry Tunnicliffe, Royal Air Force officer; Defence Services Secretary (2016–2019)
• James Turner, Bishop of Grafton and Armidale (1869–1893)
• Lily van den Broecke, British Paralympic rower^[27]
• Annabel Venning, journalist and author; Following the Drum: The Lives of Army Wives and Daughters Past and Present (2005)
• Fitzpatrick Vernon, 2nd Baron Lyveden, British peer and Liberal Party politician^[28]
• Henry Villiers-Stuart, Egyptologist and Liberal Party politician^[29]
• Terence Wade, Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Strathclyde (1987–1995)^[30]
• Stephen Warner, evangelical preacher
• Kevin Watkins, Chief Executive of Save the Children UK (2016–2021)^[31]
• Peter Watson, journalist and author^[32]
• L. P. Wenham, archaeologist
• James Wharton, Baron Wharton of Yarm, Conservative Party politician^[33]
• Thomas Wilkinson, Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle (1889–1909)
• Jonathan Wilks, diplomat^[34]
• Jim Williams (BA, Law and Sociology), author
• Hugh Willmott, archaeologist
• Thomas Woodcock, Garter Principal King of Arms (2010–2021)
• Adolphus Frederick Alexander Woodford (BA, 1846), soldier, writer and clergyman

Notes and References

1. Web site: Prof. John Anthony Allan . Real Academia de Ciencias . 15 January 2019 . 15 January 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190115182610/http://www.rac.es/2/2_ficha.php?id=897&idN3=6&idN4=51 . dead .
2. Nelson . Alex J. . Admissions . Castellum . 1999 . 51 . 46 . 2 July 2022.
3. Results of Final Examinations held in June 1981 . University of Durham Graduate . 1982 . XXVI (New Series) . 60 . 2 July 2022.
4. Book: Marlborough College Register from 1843 to 1904 . 1905 . 26 . 5th . Marlborough College . 1528103440 . en.
5. Bickersteth, Edward (1814–1892) . 2004. 10.1093/ref:odnb/2346. 20 September 2018 . en .
6. Profiles on senior men and women . Palatinate . 10 October 1967 . 217 . 11 . 9 September 2018.
7. Sandford. Graham. Richard Dickinson Chambers. 16 March 1935 — 18 April 2019. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 2021 . 70. 107–130 . 10.1098/rsbm.2020.0036 . 229355290 . free.
8. Book: Graduates of the University . 1948 . Durham University . Durham . 62.
9. Fong, G. (1988): Karateforum.com: Harry Cook interview (September 1988) Retrieved on 18 February 2010.
10. Web site: UCL PHILOSOPHY - Professor Crane . 2009-02-08 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090126054813/http://ucl.ac.uk/philosophy/academic-research/staff-tc.htm . 26 January 2009 . dmy-all .
11. Web site: Castellum. Castle Alumni. 3 May 2018. 4 May 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180504010428/https://www.castlealumni.uk/files/castellum/Castellum%2065%20(2012).pdf. dead.
12. Web site: Allan G. Hill . Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health . 22 December 2023 . 5 January 2021.
13. News: Thomas Kerr. 12 August 2013. The Times. 18 November 2004.
14. Mason . J. . Basil John Mason. Smith . F. B. . 10.1098/rsbm.1996.0018 . Frank Pasquill. 8 September 1914 – 15 October 1994 . . 42 . 277–288 . 1996 . free .
15. Pedley, Robin [formerly Robert] (1914–1988), educationist ]. 2004 . 10.1093/ref:odnb/39992 . 978-0-19-861412-8 . 20 September 2018 . en .
16. William Arthur Prowse . Durham University Gazette . 1982 . 26 . 10–11 .
17. The Rev. Chancellor Raine . Report of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society . 1896 . 1896 . 24–25 .
18. Letters . . 22 October 1987 . 416 . 13 . 24 May 2019.
19. Physics . Report by the Vice-Chancellor and Warden for the Year 1964-65 . 1965 . 72 . 3 July 2022 . Durham University.
20. BSc . University of Durham Congregation (28 June 12:30pm) . 1989 . 6 . Durham University . Durham.
21. Web site: Scotland's Land. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. https://web.archive.org/web/20060925155529/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/events/reports/2003-2004/scotland%27s_land.pdf. March 2005. 25 September 2006.
22. News: Obituary: Mr. Edward Shortt, K. C. . The Times . 11 November 1935 . 14.
23. Book: Debrett's House of Commons . 210 . Dean . London . 07024615 . 1867.
24. Web site: Curriculum Vitae: Ian Smail . Ian Smail . 31 January 2021.
25. Web site: Gazette, 1983/84 . Durham University . 20 April 2019 . 114 . 30 April 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180430053032/http://reed.dur.ac.uk/xtf/view?docId=bookreader/DU_Gazettes/DUGazette1983-4/DUGazette19834METS.xml#page/114/mode/2up . live .
26. Book: Foster, Joseph. Men-at-the-Bar. Thompson, Thomas Charles . Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd. 1885. London. 464.
27. Web site: Lily van den Broecke Biography. Durham University News. 26 August 2012.
28. Obituary - Lord Lyveden. 28 February 1900 . 9 . 36077.
29. Book: Durham University 1832–1932. 96. C. E. Whiting. Sheldon Press. 1932.
30. News: Professor Terence Wade. 17 August 2017. The Times. 22 December 2005.
31. Results of Final Examinations held in June 1977 . Durham University Gazette . 1978 . 23 (New series) . 52 . 4 February 2020.
32. Graduates. University of Durham Gazette . 1964 . 11 . 3 . 15.
33. News: Kirkup. James. James Wharton MP: serious about Europe. 28 April 2017. Telegraph. 16 May 2013.
34. Queen's Birthday Honours . Durham First . 2013 . 33 . 27 . 8 November 2018 . en.