# List of politicians associated with Balliol College, Oxford

This is a list of people associated with Balliol College, Oxford who were or are politicians.

## Politicians currently active
### Members of Parliament

| Name | Join Date | Background | Politics | Refs |
| Yuan Yang | 2008 | PPE, LSE Foreign correspondent, Financial Times | Born in China, moved to England aged 4 Labour MP for the new seat of Earley & Woodley since July 2024 | |
| Kanishka Narayan | 2008 | PPE | Labour MP for Vale of Glamorgan since July 2024 | |
| Matthew Pennycook | 2005 | History and IntRel, LSE; MPhil Int Rel | Labour MP for Greenwich & Woolwich since 2015, Minister of State for Housing and Planning since July 2024 | |
| Helen Hayes | 1997 | PPE town planner | Labour MP for Dulwich & West Norwood 2015-. Chair of the House of Commons Education Select Committee from September 2024 | $^{:233}$ |
| Kirsty McNeill | 1997 | PPEExecutive Director, Save the Children | Scottish Labour and Co-operative MP for Midlothian | |
| Yvette Cooper | 1987 | PPE Harvard LSE | Married to Ed Balls, also a senior Labour politician. MP from 1997. Former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Appointed Home Secretary July 2024 | $^{:107}$ |
| Sir Julian Lewis | 1970 | PPE DPhil IntRel, St Antony's College | Conservative MP for New Forest East since 1997. A Privy Councillor since 2015 and knighted in 2023. An expert in foreign and military affairs and has twice won the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies essay prize | $^{:324}$ |

### Members of the House of Lords

| Name | Join Date | Background | Politics | Refs |
| Jo Johnson | 1991 | Modern History | Conservative MP for Orpington 2010-19. Director No.10 Policy Unit 2013, Universities Minister 2015-18 and 2019. Life peer 2020. Brother of Prime Minister Boris Johnson | $^{:278}$ |
| Simon Stevens | 1984 | PPE | Senior government policy adviser 1997-2004 to Secs of State for Health, then No.10 Policy Unit in the era of Tony Blair. Labour councillor in Lambeth 1998-2002. Chief Executive of NHS England (a non-party role) 2014-21. Knighted 2020, life peer 2021 | $^{:517}$ |
| Matilda Simon, 3rd Baroness Simon of Wythenshawe | 1973 | Engineering | Succeeded father 2002, and retained title although assigned male at birth. Green party. | $^{:496}$ |
| Ralph Palmer | 1969 | Physics | Succeeded as Lord Lucas and Dingwall 1991. Conservative Whip in Lords 1994-97. Owner and publisher of Good Schools Guide from 2000. Hereditary peer among those elected from their own number to continue to serve actively | $^{:417}$ |
| Chris Patten | 1962 | Modern History | Conservative MP for Bath 1979-92. Secretary of State for the Environment 1989-90. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Chairman of the Conservative Party 1990-92. The final Governor of Hong Kong 1992-97. European Commissioner 1999-2004. Chancellor of Oxford University 2003-2024 | $^{:421}$ |
| Alan Beith | 1961 | PPE | Liberal (Democrat) MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed 1973-2015 Deputy Leader of LDs 1992-2003 Life peer 2015 | $^{:35}$ |
| Roger Freeman | 1961 | PPE | Conservative MP for Kettering 1983-97, Privy Council 1993, in Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1995. Oversaw privatisation of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. Life peer 1997 | $^{:178}$ |
| Dick Taverne | 1947 | Literae humaniores | Labour MP for Lincoln then re-elected as Democratic Labour, a precursor of the SDP (1973) 1962-74. Life Peer (1996), Liberal Democrat | $^{:532}$ |

## MPs who completed service in 2024

| Name | Join Date | Background | Politics | Refs |
| David Johnston | 2000 | Modern History and Politics | CEO Social Mobility Foundation 2009-2020Conservative MP for Wantage 2019-2024. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children, Families and Wellbeing 2023-4 | $^{:278}$ |
| Robin Walker | 1997 | Ancient and Modern History | Son of Peter Walker, minister under Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher. Conservative MP for Worcester 2010-24. Minister of State for School Standards 2021-22. Chair, House of Commons Education Select Committee 2022-24 | $^{:562}$ |
| Boris Johnson | 1983 | Literae HumanioresJournalist | Mayor of London 2008-16. Conservative MP for Henley 2001-8 and for Uxbridge & South Ruislip 2015-2023. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 2016-18. Prime Minister and Leader of Conservative party 2019-2022. "Got Brexit Done" | $^{:277}$ |
| Damian Green | 1974 | PPE BBC | Conservative MP for Ashford 1997-2004. Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 2016-17, First Secretary of State and Minister for the Cabinet Office, in effect Deputy Prime Minister to Theresa May, 2017 | $^{:206}$ |

## UK politicians active in era 1979-2020

| Name | Join Date | Background | Politics | Refs |
| Charlotte Leslie | 1997 | Literae Humaniores | Conservative MP for Bristol NW 2010-17, Spectator backbencher of the year 2013. Director of the Conservative Middle East Council from 2017 | $^{:321}$ |
| Rory Stewart | 1992 | History/PPE diplomat, authorThe Rest is Politics podcast | Conservative MP for Penrith & The Border 2010-19 Minister for Environment (2015–16), International Development (2015–16), Africa (2016–18), Prisons (2018–19). Secretary of State for International Development (2019). In 2019, stood for Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister following the resignation of Theresa May | $^{:518}$ |
| Kitty Ussher | 1990 | PPEChief Economist, Institute of Directors | Labour MP for Burnley 2005-10. Economic Secretary to the Treasury, 2007-08. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 2008-09. Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury 2009 | $^{:554}$ |
| James Purnell | 1988 | PPEVice Chancellor, University of the Arts | Labour MP for Stalybridge & Hyde 2001-10. Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 2007-08 and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 2008-09 | $^{:442}$ |
| Stephen Twigg | 1985 | PPE First openly gay President, National Union of Students 1990 | Labour MP for Enfield Southgate 1997-2005, defeating Michael Portillo in 1997, then for Liverpool West Derby 2010-19. Deputy Leader of the House of Commons 2002-2, Minister for School Standards 2004-5, Shadow Sec of State for Education 2011-13 | $^{:551}$ |
| David Faber | 1980 | Modern LanguagesHeadmaster, Summer Fields School | Conservative MP for Westbury 1992-2001. Grandson of former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1994-96, and to the Secretary of State for Health, 1996-97 | $^{:160}$ |
| Ian Pearson | 1977 | PPE@2024 Chairman of EQTEC PLC | Labour MP for Dudley (West then South) 1994-2010. Economic Secretary of the Treasury 2008-10 | $^{:423}$ |
| Dr Charles Tannock MEP | 1976 | Medicinepsychiatrist | MEP (Conservative) 1999-2019. UK Conservative Foreign Affairs Spokesman 2002–2019. Vice-President of the Human Rights Subcommittee of the Parliament 2004–07. Vice-President of the EP Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly 2009–14 | $^{:530}$ |
| Nigel Sheinwald | 1972 | diplomacy | Ambassador to the United States | |
| Tony Wright | 1971 | LSE, Harvard DPhil 1977 | Labour MP for Cannock & Burntwood then Cannock Chase 1992-2010. Chairman of the Public Administration Select Committee 1999-2010 | $^{:597}$ |
| John Holmes | 1969 | diplomacy | Chair, Electoral CommissionAmbassador to Portugal and France |
| Neil MacCormick MEP | 1963 | Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations at the University of Edinburgh from 1972 until 2008 | MEP for Scottish National Party 1999-2004. Died 2009 | $^{:342}$ |
| Stuart Holland | 1960 | History | Labour MP for Vauxhall 1979-89. Shadow minister for development co-operation from 1983 to 1987 | $^{:249}$ |

## Members of the House of Lords who have died since 2000

| Name | Join Date | Background | Politics | Refs |
| James Douglas-Hamilton | 1961 Died 2023 | Modern History Law, Edinburgh | Conservative MP for Edinburgh West 1974-79 Minister of State for Health and Home Affairs 1995-97. Life peer 1998 | $^{:141}$ |
| Robert Maclennan | 1955 died 2020 | Modern History barrister | Labour, SDP (party leader), Alliance and Liberal Democrat MP for Caithness & Sutherland 1966-2001. Life peer 2001 | $^{:352}$ |
| Peter Brooke | 1953 died 2023 | Literae Humaniores | Conservative MP for Cities of London and Westminster 1979-2001. Chairman of the C party 1987-89. Sec of State for N Ireland 1989-92. Life peer 2001 | $^{:63}$ |
| Patrick Mayhew | 1949 died 2016 | Jurisprudence | Conservative MP for Tunbridge Wells 1974-97. Solicitor General 1983-87, Attorney General 1987-92, Northern Ireland Sec 1992-97. Life peer 1997 | $^{:368}$ |

## UK politicians active between World War II and the Millennium

| Name | Join Date | Background | Politics | Refs |
| Mike Woodin | 1990 | Manchester, Wolfson College Balliol Lecturer in Psychology 1990-2004. | Oxford City councillor for Central ward (Green party) 1994-2004. Principal Speaker (in effect joint leader) of the Green Party of England and Wales 1997-2000 and 2003-4 | $^{:595}$ |
| Bryan Gould | 1962 | Rhodes Scholar New ZealandLaw | Labour MP 1974-79 and 1983-94, Shadow Cabinet and contended leadership of party 1992, finishing second to John Smith | $^{:202}$ |
| Lord Gowrie | 1959 | English | Minister of State in Thatcher government 1979-84, Chancellor Duchy of Lancaster 1984-5. Died 2021 | $^{:203}$ |
| Sir George Gardiner | 1955 | PPE | MP for Reigate (Conservative 1974-97, Referendum party 1997 – the only MP that party ever had.) Died 2002 | $^{:185}$ |
| Toby Jessel | 1954 | PPE | Conservative MP for Twickenham 1970-97. Died 2018 | $^{:276}$ |
| Leif Mills | 1954 | PPE | Trade union leader. National Union of Bank Employees (later renamed the Banking Insurance and Finance Union - BIFU): Assistant General Secretary in 1962, then Deputy General Secretary in 1968, and finally General Secretary in 1972-96. Died 2020 | $^{:376}$ |
| Mark Hughes | 1953 | Modern History | Labour MP for City of Durham 1970-83. MEP 1975-79.Died 1993 | $^{:192}$ |
| John Mackintosh | 1950 | Edinburgh PPE | Labour MP for Berwick & East Lothian. Advocated dual nationality- Scottish and British. Died 1978 | $^{:162}$ |
| Ian Gilmour | 1947 | Modern History | Conservative MP 1962-92. Defence Sec 1974. Lord Privy Seal 1979-81. Life peer 1992. Died 2007 | $^{:130}$ |
| Sir Nicholas Ridley | 1946 | Mathematics, English | Conservative MP for Cirencester & Tewkesbury 1959-1992. Life peer 1992. Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1981-83. Secretary of State for Transport 1983-86. Secretary of State for the Environment 1986-89. Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 1989-90. Died 1993 | $^{:123}$ |
| David Ginsburg | 1939 | PPE | Labour MP for Dewsbury 1959-81, SDP 1981-83. Chairman Parliamentary and Scientific Committee. Died 1994 | $^{:77}$ |
| David James | 1938 | Modern HistoryWartime honorary degree | Conservative MP for Brighton Kemptown 1959-64 and North Dorset 1970-70. Died 1986 | $^{:70}$ |
| Maurice Macmillan | 1938 | Classical History | Only son of Harold Macmillan (Prime Minister). Conservative MP for Halifax 1955-64 and for Farnham and South West Surrey 1966-84 (his death). Economic Secretary to the Treasury 1963–64. Chief Secretary to the Treasury 1970–72, Secretary of State for Employment 1972–73 and Paymaster General 1973–74 | $^{:71}$ |
| Roy Jenkins | 1938 | PPE | Labour MP for Birmingham Stechford 1950-77, Home Secretary 1965-67 overseeing liberalisation of law relating to divorce, homosexuality and capital punishment abolition, and 1974-76, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1967-70, President of the European Commission 1977-81. SDP MP for Glasgow Hllhead 1982-87. Prospective Prime Minister for the Liberal-SDP Alliance in the 1983 election. Life peer (Liberal Democrat) 1987. Chancellor of Oxford University 1987-2003 (his death) | $^{:70}$ |
| Julian Amery | 1937 | Modern History | Conservative MP for Preston North 1950-66, for Brighton Pavilion 1969-92. Secretary of State for Air 1960-62, Minister of Aviation 1962-64 (involved in the planning stage of the Concorde airliner), Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 1972-74 | $^{:62}$ |
| Madron Seligman MEP | 1937 | PPE | Conservative MEP for Sussex West 1979-94 | $^{:67}$ |
| Hugh Fraser | 1936 | Modern History | Conservative MP for Stone then Stafford & Stone then Stafford 1945-84 (his death). Secretary of State for Air 1962-64 | $^{:57}$ |
| Denis Healey | 1936 | Literae Humaniores | Labour MP for Leeds SE then East 1952-92 Secretary of State for Defence 1964-70, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1974-79, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party 1980-83. Life peer 1992. Died 2015 | $^{:58}$ |
| Sir Edward HeathPrime Minister | 1935 | PPE organ scholar | Conservative MP for Bexley then Old Bexley & Sidcup 1950-2001.C Chief Whip 1955-60, :Lord Privy Seal in charge of negotiations to enter the European Economic Community 1961, President of the Board of Trade 1963. Leader of the C party 1965-75. Prime Minister 1970-74. Died 2005 | $^{:52}$ |
| Nigel Nicolson | 1935 | Modern History | Conservative MP for Bournemouth East and Christchurch 1952-59. Wrote history of the Grenadier Guards with whom he served in WW2. Established Weidenfeld and Nicolson publishers. Wrote about his bisexual parents Portrait of a Marriage 1973. Historian. Autobiography "Long Life" 1997. Died 2004. | $^{:54}$ |
| Sir Anthony Kershaw | 1934 | Modern History | Conservative MP for Stroud 1955-87. Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee 1979-87. Died 2008 | $^{:47}$ |
| Jo Grimond | 1932 | PPE | Liberal MP for Orkney & Shetland 1950-83, Leader of the Liberal party 1956-67. Life peer 1983. Died 1993 | $^{:36}$ |
| Anthony Greenwood | 1930 | PPE | Labour MP for Heywood & Radcliffe 1946-50, Rossendale 1950-70. Secretary of State for the Colonies 1964-65, Minister of Overseas Development 1965-66, Minister of Housing and Local Government 1966-70. Died 1982 | $^{:67}$ |
| John Boyd-Carpenter | 1927 | Modern History | Conservative MP for Kingston-upon-Thames 1945-72. Chief Secretary to the Treasury 1962-64. Life peer 1972. Died 1998 | $^{:49}$ |
| James MacColl | 1927 | PPE Chicago | Labour MP for Widnes 1950-71 Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Housing and Local Government 1964-69. High Anglican. Benefactor of the College. Died 1971 | $^{:52}$ |
| Sir Dingle Foot | 1924 | Modern History | Liberal MP for Dundee 1931-45 and Labour MP for Ipswich 1957-70. Solicitor General for England and Wales 1964-67. Died 1978 | $^{:35}$ |
| George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk | 1924 | PPE | Succeeded as earl 1940. A Scottish representative peer 1945-63. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1955-1957, and First Lord of the Admiralty 1957-1959. Died 1994 | $^{:34}$ |
| Sir Hamilton Kerr | 1922 | Modern History | Conservative MP for Oldham 1935-50, Cambridge 1950-66. PPS to Harold Macmillan 1954. Died 1974 | $^{:26}$ |
| Henry Brooke | 1922 | Literae Humaniores | MP for Lewisham West 1938-45 and Hampstead 1950-66. Chief Secretary to the Treasury 1961-62, Home Secretary 1962-64. Life peer 1966. Died 1984 | $^{:24}$ |
| Christopher Hollis | 1920 | Literae Humaniores | Conservative MP for Devizes 1945-55. Died 1977 | $^{:20}$ |
| Harold Macmillan (Prime Minister) | 1912 | Literae Humaniores | Conservative MP for Stockton 1924-29 and 1931-45, Bromley 1945-64. Secretary of State for Air 1945. Minister of Housing and Local Government 1951-54. Minister of Defence 1954-55. Chancellor of the Exchequer 1955-57. Leader of the Conservative party and Prime Minister 1957-63. Earl of Stockton 1984. Chancellor of Oxford University 1960-86 (his death) | $^{:159}$ |
| Sir Frank Soskice | 1920 | PPE | Labour MP for Birkenhead West 1945-50, for Sheffield Neepsend 1951-55 and for Newport 1956-66. Life peer 1966. Solicitor-General for England 1945-51. Attorney-General for England 1951. Home Secretary 1964-65. Lord Privy Seal 1965-66 | $^{:223}$ |
| Walter Monckton | 1910 | Modern History | Conservative MP for Bristol West 1951-57, Minister of Labour and National Service, 1951-55. Minister of Defence 1955 -56. Paymaster General 1956-57. Created Viscount 1957. Died 1965 | $^{:144}$ |

## UK politicians active between World War I and World War II

| Name | Join Date | Background | Politics | Refs |
| Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton | 1921 | Chemistry | Unionist MP for East Renfrewshire, styled Marquess of Clydesdale, 1930-40, when he succeeded to the title of Duke of Hamilton. When the Nazi Deputy Fuhrer of Germany, Rudolf Hess, parachuted into Scotland in 1941, his aim was ostensibly to meet the Duke. Hamilton immediately contacted Prime Minister Churchill and Hess was imprisoned by the British authorities. Died 1973 | $^{:226}$ |
| Tom Wintringham | 1918 | Modern History | Marxist, Joint founder of Common Wealth party 1942. Contested Midlothian & Peebles Northern by-election February 1943, and received 48% of the vote but was not elected. Contested Aldershot unsuccessfully 1945. Died 1951 | $^{:204}$ |
| R. Palme Dutt | 1914 | Literae Humaniores | Founder member of Communist Party of Great Britain 1920. General Secretary of Communist party 1939-41, during period of Nazi-Soviet pact. Died 1974 | $^{:173}$ |
| Harold Nicolson | 1904 | Literae HumanioresDiplomat, author, and politician | Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Information in Churchill’s war-time government. Knighted in 1953 as a reward for writing the official biography of George V. Unsuccessfully contested Combined English Universities for Mosley’s New Party in 1931. National Labour MP for Leicester West 1935-45. Open marriage with writer Vita Sackville-West each conducting a number of extra-marital same-sex affairs. Their son, Nigel Nicolson (Balliol 1935), wrote candidly about his parents’ relationship in Portrait of a Marriage (1973). Died 1968 | $^{:98}$ |
| Aubrey Herbert | 1898 | Modern History | Conservative MP for South Somerset 1911-18, Yeovil 1918-23 (his death). Known despite near-blindness for climbing Oxford college roofs and for service in World War One. Twice declined the throne of Albania. | $^{:56}$ |
| Arthur Steel-Maitland | 1895 | Literae Humaniores and Jurisprudence | Unionist/Conservative MP for Birmingham East 1910-18, for Birmingham Erdington 1918-28 and for Tamworth 1929-35. Chairman of the C party 1911-16. Secretary for Overseas Trade 1917-19. Minister of Labour 1924-29. Died 1935 | $^{:46}$ |
| Leo Amery | 1892 | Literae Humaniores | MP (Liberal Unionist) for Birmingham South 1911-18, and MP (Unionist, then Conservative) for Birmingham Sparkbrook 1918-45. First Lord of the Admiralty 1922-23. Secretary of State for the Colonies 1924-29. Famously spoke in Norway debate in May 1940 demanding that the Chamberlain government “in the name of God, go!”. Secretary of State for India and Burma 1940-45. Died 1955 | $^{:35}$ |
| Herbert Samuel | 1889 | Modern History | Liberal MP for Cleveland 1902-18 and for Darwen 1929-35. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1915-16. Home Secretary 1916 and 1931-32. Leader of the Liberal party 1931-35. The first practising Jew to be appointed a Cabinet Minister. Zionist. Created Viscount Samuel 1937. Leader of the Liberals in the House of Lords 1945-55. Died 1963 | $^{:27}$ |
| George Nathaniel Curzon | 1878 | Literae Humaniores | Lord Curzon 1898-1911, Earl Curzon 1911-21, Marquess Curzon 1921-25 (his death). Viceroy and Governor-General of India 1899-1905. Lord Privy Seal 1915-16 in Asquith’s government (Coalition Conservative). Lord President of the Council 1916-19 in Lloyd George’s government (Coalition Conservative) and 1924-25 In Bladwin's government (Conservative). Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1919-24 under Lloyd George, Bonar Law and Baldwin. Leader of the House of Lords 1916-January 24 and November 1924-25 | $^{:111}$ |
| Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner | 1872 | Literae Humaniores | Governor of the Cape Colony and High Commissioner for Southern Africa 1897-1901. Member of Lloyd George’s inner war cabinet 1916-18. Secretary of State for War 1918-19. Secretary of State for the Colonies 1919-21. Played an important role in the formulation of British foreign and domestic policy between the mid-1890s and early 1920s. Chancellor of Oxford University. Died 1925 | $^{:77}$ |
| H. H. Asquith (Prime Minister) | 1870 | | Liberal MP for East Fife 1886-1918, for Paisley 1920-24. Home Secretary 1892-95. Chancellor of the Exchequer 1905-08. Prime Minister 1908-16. During this period of office as PM he presided over the introduction of labour exchanges, old age pensions, Lloyd George’s 1909 People’s Budget and National Insurance, and called general elections in 1910 to establish the primacy of the House of Commons over the Lords, followed by the Parliament Act of 1911. Led the UK into the first World War in 1914, formed a coalition in 1915, but was ousted in favour of Lloyd George in 1916. 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith 1925-28 (his death) | $^{:65}$ |

## UK politicians pre-World War I

| Name | Join Date | Background | Politics | Refs |
| Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon | 1880 | Jurisprudence | Liberal MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed 1885-1916. Viscount Grey from 1916. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1905-16, including at the outbreak of World War One (“the lamps are going out all over Europe”). British Ambassador to the United States 1919-20. Chancellor of the University of Oxford 1928-33, his death. | $^{:125}$ |
| Victor Bruce Succeeded as 9th Earl of Elgin 1863 | 1870 | Literae Humaniores | Viceroy of India 1894-99. Secretary of State for the Colonies 1905-08 in Campbell-Bannerman’s Liberal government. Died 1917 | |
| Robert Reid, 1st Earl Loreburn | 1864 | Literae humaniores | Liberal MP for Hereford (1880-85) Dumfries Burghs (1886-1905). Solicitor General, Attorney General. Lord Chancellor 1905 becoming Lord Loreburn. Died 1923 | $^{:45}$ |
| Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne | 1863 | 6th Earl of KerryLiterae humanities | Member of Gladstone's first two liberal administrations. He was successively a lord of the treasury (1868–72), under-secretary for war (1872–4), and under-secretary for India (April–July 1880). Governor General of Canada, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | $^{:41}$ |
| William Wickham | 1853 | MA solicitor | MP for Petersfield 1892-1897. County Councillor. Died 1923 | $^{:12}$ |
| Arthur Peel, 1st Viscount Peel | 1848 | Jurisprudence5th son of Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minister | Liberal MP for Warwick 1865-1885. Speaker of the House of Commons 1884. Died 1912 | |
| Stafford Northcote | 1835 | Jurisprudence | Conservative MP for Dudley 1855-57, for Stamford 1858-66 and for North Devon 1866-85. Earl of Iddesleigh 1885-87 (his death). President of the Board of Trade 1866-67. Secretary of State for India 1867-68. Chancellor of the Exchequer 1874-80. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1886-87. Leader of the Conservative party in the Commons 1876-85 on Disraeli’s elevation as Earl of Beaconsfield | $^{:2}$ |
| Edward Cardwell | 1835 | Jurisprudence | Liberal MP for Clitheroe 1842-47, for Liverpool 1847-52, for Oxford 1853-74, elevated to Lords as Viscount Cardwell 1874. President of the Board of Trade 1852-55. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1861-64. Secretary of State for the Colonies 1864-66. Secretary of State for War 1868-74; he is best known for the Cardwell Reforms to the British Army. Died 1886. | $^{:2}$ |

## Monarchs, statesmen, politicians and public servants in non-UK countries

| Name | Join Date | Country | Background | Politics | Refs |
| Luke Bronin | 2001 | USA | Rhodes Scholar | Mayor of Hartford CT 2016-24 | |
| Masako Owada | 1988 | Japan | International Relations | Empress of JapanCollege Visit July 2024 | $^{:414}$ |
| Ngaire Woods | 1987 | New Zealand | Rhodes ScholarInternational Relations | Founding dean of the Blavatnik School of Government and professor of Global Economic Governance at the University of Oxford | $^{:596}$ |
| Nada al-Nashif | 1984 | Jordan | PPEHarvard | Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights 2020- | $^{:9}$ |
| Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall | 1981 | USA | Amer Uni of Paris Rhodes ScholarInternational Politics | Homeland Security Advisor | $^{:492}$ |
| Nancy-Ann DeParle née Min | 1979 | USA | Rhodes ScholarPPEJD Harvard | Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy in the administration of President Obama from January 2011 to January 2013 | $^{:377}$ |
| Christopher Dell | 1978 | USA | International Relations | Former Ambassador to Angola, Zimbabwe and Kosovo | $^{:131}$ |
| Carson Wen | 1975 | Hong Kong SAR | Jurisprudence | 1997 three-term deputy to the National People's Congress | $^{:573}$ |
| Kim Beazley | 1974 | Australia | Rhodes Scholar International Relations | Former leader of the Labor Party Opposition, Ambassador to the US, Governor Western Australia | $^{:32}$ |
| Bob Rae | 1969 | Canada | Rhodes Scholar Politics | Ambassador to the United Nations since 2020. Previously premier of Ontario from 1990-1995, leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party from 1982 to 1996. Interim leader of the Liberal Party 2011-13 | $^{:446}$ |
| Abdullah Bishara | 1961 | Kuwait | Law | First secretary general of the Gulf Cooperation Council (1981–1993) which played a vital role during the first Gulf War, former Kuwait representative to the United Nations (1971–1981) | $^{:268}$ |
| Harald V | 1960 | Norway | History, Economics, Politics | King of Norway 1991- | $^{:280}$ |
| Matthew Nimetz | 1960 | USA | PPE LLB Harvard | United Nations Special Representative for the naming dispute between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) | $^{:279}$ |
| Lakshman Kadirgamar | 1956 | Sri Lanka | LawBarristerBenefactor | Foreign Minister 1994-2001 and 2004-5 when assassinated by a Tamil Tiger. | $^{:225}$ |
| Paul Sarbanes | 1954 | USA | Princeton Rhodes ScholarPPEHLS | Maryland Representative 1971-77; Senator 1977-2007. Co-author of Sarbanes–Oxley Act 2002 to regulate corporate financial behaviour | $^{:207}$ |
| Tuanku Jaafar | 1951 | Malaysia | Nottingham UnilawLSE | Ruler of Negeri Sembilan 1967-2008King of Malaysia 1994-99 | $^{:171}$ |
| Seretse Khama | 1945 | Botswana | | First President on independence 1966 Died 1980 | $^{:112}$ |
| Eliud Mathu | 1939 | Kenya | History | First African member of the Legislative Council 1944-57 Chairman, Kenya Airways 1977-79 | $^{:80}$ |
| Vincent Massey | 1936 | Canada | History | governor general of Canada from 1952-59, the first to be born in Canada | $^{:60}$ |
| Philip Mayer Kaiser | 1936 | USA | Rhodes ScholarPPE | Ambassador to Senegal, Mauritania, Hungary and Austria | $^{:59}$ |
| Richard von Weizsäcker | 1936 | Germany | Philosophy and History | President of Germany 1984-94 Mayor of West Berlin 1981-84 | $^{:62}$ |
| Adam von Trott zu Solz | 1931 | Germany | Rhodes Scholar Politics | Diplomat, executed 1945 for his part in the Stauffenberg plot to assassinate Hitler | $^{:81}$ |
| James Burnham | 1927 | USA | English | Political theorist. Professor of Philosophy NYURejected Marxism to become leader of the American Conservative movement. Wrote the Managerial Revolution 1941 | $^{:49}$ |
| Olav V | 1924 | Norway | jurisprudence and economics | King of Norway from 1957 until his death in 1991 | $^{:37}$ |
| Jan Hofmeyr | 1913 | South Africa | Rhodes Scholar Literae Humaniores | Deputy Prime Minister 1943-48 (pre-Apartheid), Finance Minister, Education Minister, Governor of Transvaal | $^{:166}$ |
| Hardit Malik | 1912 | India | HistorySaw active service with RAF in WW1 | Ambassador to France Leader of UN delegation | $^{:8}$ |

## Colonial administrators

* Crawford Murray MacLehose Joined 1936. Diplomat: ambassador to South Vietnam 1967–9, to Denmark 1969–71, Governor of Hong Kong 1971-82 (longest serving ever) .Life peer 1982 (crossbench). Died 2000.
* Cyril George Fox Cartwright
* Sir Lionel Barnett Abrahams 1888 Senior civil servant, India Office
* Shyamji Krishna Varma 1879 India
* George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston 1878 viceroy of India
* Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin (c1867) viceroy of India
* Henry Primrose private secretary to the Viceroy of India, chair Inland Revenue
* Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne 1863 listed as Lord Kerry viceroy of India
* Roger Ludlow 1609 (spelt Ludlowe) US Colonial lawmaker