List of people associated with New College, Oxford explained

This is a list of notable people affiliated with New College, Oxford, including former students, and current and former academics and fellows. The college is a part of Oxford University, England. The disproportionate amount of men on this list is partially explained by the fact that for the first 600 years of its history, from its foundation in 1379 until 1979, women were barred from studying at New College.^[1]

Former students

14th to 19th centuries

• Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury^[2]
• John Macleod Campbell Crum, priest and hymnwriter^[3]
• Sir T.W. Edgeworth David (1858–1934), geologist, polar explorer^[4]
• William Sealy Gosset, statistician^[5]
• William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury (1828–1848)^[6]
• Thomas Hughes, footballer, won FA Cup twice in 1870s^[7]
• The Ven. John Ingram, English Jesuit and martyr^[8]
• Leopold George Wickham Legg, historian and editor of the Dictionary of National Biography^[9]
• William Pargeter, eighteenth-century physician known for his interest in mental illness^[10]
• Francis Turner, 17th century Bishop of Ely^[11]
• William Warham, former Archbishop of Canterbury^[12]
• William Waynflete, founder of Magdalen College and Lord Chancellor of England; doubtful if he was an alumnus.^[13]
• James Woodforde, clergyman^[14]

20th to 21st centuries

• Katharine Birbalsingh, Headmistress and Founder of the Michaela Community School^[15]

• Simon Baron-Cohen, professor of Developmental Psychopathology, University of Cambridge^[16]
• Kate Beckinsale, actor^[17]
• Tony Benn, Labour Party politician^[18]

• Gyles Brandreth, writer and broadcaster, Conservative MP for Chester^[19]

• Gary Cooper, musician and conductor^[20]
• Michael Crick, journalist^[21]
• Richard Crossman, politician^[22]

• John Fowles, novelist^[23]

• Hugh Gaitskell, Labour Party leader (1955–63)^[24]

• John Galsworthy, novelist and playwright^[25]

• Victor Gollancz, publisher^[26]
• Hugh Grant, actor^[27]

• General Sir John Hackett, soldier^[28]
• J. B. S. Haldane, biologist^[29]

• Bernard Longley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham^[30]

• Neil MacGregor, art historian, director of the British Museum^[31]
• Outram Marshall, clergyman, organising secretary of the Church Union^[32]

• Peter Francis Middleton, pilot and grandfather of Catherine, Princess of Wales^[33]
• Alasdair Milne, BBC Director General^[34]
• Kate Mosse, novelist^[35]

• Rageh Omaar, broadcast journalist^[36]

• Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi

• Mel Smith, comedian and film director^[37]

• Rick Stein, chef^[38]

• Frank Thompson, SOE officer.^[39]

• Naomi Wolf, American feminist^[40]
• Lucy Worsley, historian, author and television presenter^[41]

Fellows and staff

See also: List of Wardens of New College, Oxford and List of Honorary Fellows of New College, Oxford.

• A. J. Ayer, Wykeham Professor of logic^[42]
• Isaiah Berlin^[43]
• Alan Bullock^[44]
• Raymond Carr^[45]
• David Cecil
• Richard Dawkins, Biology^[29]
• Michael Dummett, Wykeham Professor of logic^[46]
• Robin Lane Fox, Ancient History^[47]
• J. B. S. Haldane (also an alumnus), Biology^[29]
• W. D. Hamilton, Biology^[29]
• G. H. Hardy^[48]
• H. L. A. Hart, Philosophy, Jurisprudence^[49]
• Nigel Hitchin, Savilian Professor of Geometry^[50]
• Julian Huxley, Biology^[29]
• Willis Lamb, Wykeham Professor of Physics^[51]
• Hermione Lee, first woman Professorial Fellow, from 1998^[52]
• Jane Lightfoot^[53]
• Sir Henry Martin, MP for Oxford University, fellow 1582 (also alumnus)^[54]
• Rudolf Peierls, Wykeham Professor of Physics^[55]
• Craig Raine^[56]
• Marcus du Sautoy^[57]
• Jane Shaw, Dean of Divinity
• Jeremy Sheehy, Dean of Divinity^[58]
• Joe Silk, Savilian Professor of Astronomy^[59]
• William Archibald Spooner^[60]
• Christopher Tolkien^[61]
• Harold Wilson^[62]

Organists and directors of music

• 1694 John Weldon^[63]
• 1776 Philip Hayes^[64]
• 1825 Alfred Bennett^[65]
• 1830–60 Stephen Elvey^[64]
• 1860–69 George Benjamin Arnold^[64]
• 1870 James Taylor^[64]
• 1901 Hugh Allen^[66]
• 1919 William Henry Harris^[67]
• 1929 John Dykes Bower^[67]
• 1933 Sydney Watson^[67]
• 1938 Herbert Kennedy Andrews^[67]
• 1956 Meredith Davies^[68]
• 1959 David Lumsden.^[69]
• 1976 Edward Higginbottom^[70]
• 2014 Robert Quinney^[71]

External links

• Emeritus, Honorary and Wykeham Fellows, New College, Oxford

Notes and References

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2. Book: Davis, Virginia . William Waynflete, Bishop and Educationalist . 1993 . Boydell & Brewer . 978-0-85115-349-0 . 75.
3. Crockford's Clerical Directory (1932), "Crum, John Macleod Campbell", p. 300.
4. Web site: David, Tannatt William Edgeworth . Scott Polar Research Institute . 24 April 2023.
5. 10.1257/jep.22.4.199. free. Retrospectives: Guinnessometrics: The Economic Foundation of "Student's" T. 2008. Ziliak. Stephen T.. Journal of Economic Perspectives. 22. 4. 199–216.
6. Book: Garrard, James . Archbishop Howley 1828-1848 . Farnham . Ashgate . 2015 . The Archbishops of Canterbury Series . 978-1-4724-5133-0 . 1.
7. Book: Cavallini, Rob . The Wanderers F.C. - 'Five times F.A. Cup winners' . Dog N Duck Publications . 2005 . 93 . 0-9550496-0-1.
8. Web site: Oxford University Saints . The Newman Society: The Oxford University Catholic Society . 24 April 2023 . Bl. John Ingram, Martyr, Seminary Priest b. Stike Edith, Hereford; convert; educ. New College, Oxford; Rheims, Rome; ordained 1589; mission in Scotland. Condemned for priesthood. Hung, drawn, and quartered. Martyred Darlington, 1594..
9. “Legg, Leopold George Wickham” in Who Was Who 1961–1970 (A & C Black, 1979 reprint,)
10. Hunter . Richard . Macalpine . Ida . April 1965 . William Pargeter and the Medical Society of Oxford 1780–3* . Medical History . 9 . 2 . 181–183 . 10.1017/S0025727300030453 . 57960711 . 2048-8343 . free . 1033475 .
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12. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp1550-1577 Waad-Warwright Pages 1550-1577 Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714
13. Waynflete, William of . 60 . Leadam . Isaac Saunders . 85-89 . 1.
14. Beresford, J. The Diary of a Country Parson, Oxford University Press, 1924, volume 1, p. 11
15. Wilby, Peter (27 February 2012). "Katharine Birbalsingh – undaunted by free school setback", The Guardian.
16. Web site: Human Sciences Alumnus, Simon Baron-Cohen, Knighted in 2021 New Year's Honours . University of Oxford . 19 March 2024 . 31 December 2020.
17. News: God bless Kate – better late than never . Victoria . Coren . The Observer . 9 January 2005 . 5 October 2011 . London . https://web.archive.org/web/20131221035333/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/jan/09/features.review . 21 December 2013 . live .
18. News: Brivati . Brian . Brian Brivati . Tony Benn obituary . 14 March 2014 . The Guardian . 3 September 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180903215459/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/14/tony-benn-obituary . 3 September 2018 . live.
19. Web site: Gyles Brandreth (New College, 1967) . 19 January 2017 . 19 March 2024 . alumni.ox.ac.uk.
20. Web site: Ever present at New Chamber Opera events is the Company's founding conductor, Gary Cooper . . 19 March 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080906224454/http://www.goldbergweb.com/fr/interpreters/conductors/10049.php . 6 September 2008 . dead.
21. Matt Wells "The Guardian profile: Michael Crick", The Guardian (London), 17 October 2003
22. Book: Bloch, Michael . Closet Queens . 229 . Little, Brown . 2015 . 978-1408704127.
23. Book: Aubrey, James R. . John Fowles; A Reference Companion . 1991 . Greenwood Press . 0-313-26399-X . 13–14.
24. Book: Brivati, Brian . Brian Brivati . Hugh Gaitskell . Matthew . Colin . Colin Matthew . 2004 . Dictionary of National Biography . 21 . Oxford . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-861411-1 . 287.
25. Book: Dupré, Catherine . John Galsworthy: A Biography . Collins . 1976 . London . 978-0-00-211392-2 . 28.
26. Book: Edwards, Ruth Dudley . 1987 . Victor Gollancz: A Biography . . 106, 108 and 113.
27. News: Hugh Grant enjoys boozy night with Oxford University rugby players, downing alcohol from a shoe as students cheer him on . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/06/08/hugh-grant-enjoys-boozy-night-oxford-university-rugby-players/ . 10 January 2022 . subscription . live . Grant won the Galsworthy scholarship to read English Literature at New College, and graduated with a 2.1 honours . Turner . Camilla . 8 June 2017 . The Telegraph . 11 May 2019 . Diver . Tony.
28. Web site: Obituary: General Sir John Hackett, G.C.B, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C. . The Museum of the Queen's Royal Hussars . 19 March 2024.
29. Web site: Biological Sciences . . 15 April 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160425070751/http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/biological-sciences . 25 April 2016 . dead.
30. http://www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/bishops/archbishop-longley/ Archbishop Longley
31. News: Kennedy . Maev . 'He has not only transformed the public's view of what the British Museum is for, but also the view of the politicians' . 24 April 2023 . . 11 May 2007.
32. ”Marshall, T. Outram”, in Society of the Holy Cross: The Romanising Conspirators at Work (London: Church Association, 1898) online at anglicanhistory.org
33. Web site: Townsend (and OUSU team) . David J. . Oxford Handbook . Oxford University Student Union 2012 . 22 May 2015 . ...New College...Famous alumni include....Peter (Francis) Middleton, grandfather of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.
34. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9792030/Alasdair-Milne.html Obituary: Alasdair Milne
35. Web site: Kate Mosse: Fiction Non-Fiction Poetry . . 24 April 2023.
36. Web site: Rageh Omaar . Prime Performers Agency . 31 July 2014 . 15 April 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140415103542/http://www.primeperformersagency.co.uk/profile/rageh-omaar/ . dead .
37. News: Cavendish . Dominic . I'm hoping to cover my air fare . . 22 July 2006 . 18 March 2024.
38. News: A fishy twist in the tale of two brothers . https://web.archive.org/web/20131006080953/https://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/page.aspx?pid=932 . Oxford Today, Volume 22 No 3, Trinity 2010 . 6 October 2013.
39. Web site: Simms . Brendan . A major, a martyr, a train station . Times Higher Education . 11 January 2015 . 7 July 1997.
40. Web site: Naomi Wolf (biography and blog). The Huffington Post . December 15, 2010.
41. Web site: BBC4: A very British Murder with Lucy Worsley.
42. Web site: Alfred Jules Ayer. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 15 April 2016. 2005.
43. Web site: Isaiah Berlin 1909-1997 A Personal Impression . Wolfson College . 24 April 2023.
44. News: Smithers . Rebecca . Bullock, visionary historian, dies aged 89 . 24 April 2023 . . 3 February 2005.
45. Web site: Sir Raymond Carr . All Souls College . 24 April 2023 . Fellow, New College, Oxford (from 1953 to 1964).
46. Web site: Righteous Anger: A Symposium Celebrating the Lives of Michael and Ann Dummett . New College, Oxford . 24 April 2023 . our book focuses on the lives and anti-racist activism of an extraordinarily symbiotic married couple — Sir Michael Dummett, Wykeham Professor of Logic at New College, and his wife Ann Dummett..
47. Web site: Lane Fox New College Oxford . www.new.ox.ac.uk . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110409145516/http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/fellows/robin.lane-fox . 2011-04-09.
48. Web site: G H Hardy's Oxford Years. Oxford University Mathematical Institute. 16 April 2016.
49. Web site: Honoré . Tony . H.L.A. Hart . Faculty of Law, University of Oxford . 24 April 2023.
50. Web site: Mathematics and Statistics . New College, Oxford . 24 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221002181603/https://www.new.ox.ac.uk/node/680 . 2 October 2022 . live.
51. News: Close . Frank . Obituary: Willis Lamb . 24 April 2023 . . 24 May 2008.
52. Web site: Hermione Lee . . 22 April 2023.
53. Web site: Jane Lightfoot . New College . University of Oxford . 22 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130818112308/https://www.new.ox.ac.uk/jane-lightfoot . 18 August 2013 . live.
54. Marten, Henry . 17 . 784–785.
55. News: Cathcart . Brian . Obituary: Sir Rudolf Peierls . 24 April 2023 . . 21 September 1995.
56. Web site: New College Reads To You . New College, Oxford . 24 April 2023 . Craig Raine — poet, critic, editor, and New College Emeritus Fellow.
57. Web site: Marcus du Sautoy, OBE . . 16 April 2016.
58. Book: Aston, T. H. . The History of the University of Oxford . Clarendon Press . Oxford . 1984–2000 . 978-0-19-155966-2 . 893971998 . 542, note.
59. Web site: New College, Oxford: Joseph Silk . 30 June 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111222201556/http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/fellows/joseph.silk . 22 December 2011 . dmy-all .
60. Web site: From the archive, 1 September 1930: Obituary: Dr WA Spooner. The Guardian. 16 April 2016.
61. Web site: Tolkien, Christopher Reuel . . 16 April 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140407080758/http://cw.routledge.com/ref/tolkien/ctolkien.html . 7 April 2014 .
62. Web site: Major . John . Mr Major's Commons Tribute to Harold Wilson – 24 May 1995 . The Rt. Hon. Sir John Major KG CH . 24 April 2023.
63. Web site: G 11.016 CoverJohn Weldon (1676–1736) Two Songs upon a Ground Peace, babbling Muse! / In vain we say . Girolamo Musikverlag . 24 April 2023.
64. Web site: NameBright - Coming Soon . https://web.archive.org/web/20050109033344/http://www.ofchoristers.net/Chapters/OxfordNewCollege.htm. 1 May 2010. 9 January 2005.
65. Web site: Alfred Bennett . Hymnary.org . 24 April 2023.
66. The Times, 21 February 1946, p. 7
67. Web site: ARCHIVE RECORDINGS — Remastered 78 rpm recordings from 1927-1951 . The Choir of New College Oxford . 1 May 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081203160811/http://www.newcollegechoir.co.uk/cds/archives.htm . 3 December 2008.
68. News: Reed . Philip . Meredith Davies Conductor with a special passion for English music . 24 April 2023 . . 30 March 2005.
69. Webb, Stanley and Paul Hale. "Lumsden, Sir David", Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press. Retrieved 27 November 2017
70. Web site: Carson . Ian . Higginbottom, Edward . Grove Music Online . 26 August 2015.
71. Web site: Robert Quinney Appointed Associate Professor and Director of New College Choir; Oxford University Faculty of Music . Music.ox.ac.uk . 10 August 2020.