Balliol College, Oxford
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Balliol College, founded in 1263, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
Traditionally, the undergraduates are amongst the most politically active in the university, and the college's alumni include several former prime ministers. Balliol attracts more international students than the other undergraduate colleges.
During Benjamin Jowett's Mastership in the 19th Century, the College rose from its relative obscurity to occupy the first rank of colleges, and indeed continues to play a prominent role. Herbert Asquith once described Balliol men as possessing "the tranquil consciousness of an effortless superiority".
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History
Notable Former Students
- Matthew Arnold
- Herbert Asquith
- Hilaire Belloc
- William Beveridge
- Roy Bhaskar
- Lionel Blue
- E. J. Bowen
- James Bradley
- Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry
- George Nathaniel Curzon
- Gavyn Davies
- Richard Dawkins
- John Douglas
- Francis Edgeworth
- Charles Harding Firth
- John Evelyn
- Graham Greene
- Julian Grenfell
- Jo Grimond
- William Hamilton
- Harald V of Norway
- Denis Healey
- Edward Heath
- Christopher Hill
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Aldous Huxley
- Roy Jenkins
- Boris Johnson
- Andrew Lang
- Cosmo Lang
- Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne
- John Lucas
- Crawford Murray MacLehose
- Harold Macmillan
- Howard Marks
- Raymond Massey
- Harold James Ruthven Murray
- Stafford Northcote
- King Olav V of Norway
- Chris Patten
- John Schlesinger
- Nevil Shute
- Adam Smith
- Peter Snow
- Robert Southey
- William Spottiswoode
- George Steiner
- Eric Stenbock
- Patrick Shaw-Stewart
- Algernon Swinburne
- John Addington Symonds
- Archibald Campbell Tait
- Frederick Temple
- William Temple
- Arnold J. Toynbee
- Adam von Trott zu Solz
- T H Tylor
- John Wycliffe
- Hugo Young
(Dorothy L. Sayers attributes a Balliol undergraduateship to her fictional character, Lord Peter Wimsey)
Academics/Teachers
Notable applicants who were not matriculated (public domain information)
External link
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Balliol_College,_Oxford" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balliol_College,_Oxford, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
