# List of alumni of Hertford College, Oxford

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
* 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
* 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
* 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
* 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