List of Pembroke College, Oxford, people

A list of Pembroke College, Oxford people including former students, Fellows, Honorary Fellows and Masters of Pembroke College, University of Oxford, England.

King Abdullah II of Jordan

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Oz Clarke

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Michael Heseltine

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson's desk, in Broadgates.

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Plaque honoring James Smithson, founding donor on the Smithsonian Institution.

Former students

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• Abdullah II of Jordan, current ruler of Jordan
• Sukhumbhand Paribatra, Governor of Bangkok, Thailand
• William Adams, religious writer and essayist
• Patience Agbabi, performance poet
• Hilarion Alfeyev, Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church, theologian, composer
• Michael Bettaney, a former MI5 intelligence officer convicted of Official Secrets Act offences in 1984
• Francis Beaumont, playwright
• Tanya Beckett, journalist and TV presenter
• Gaspar Bergman, film director
• William Blackstone, jurist and barrister
• Chris Rokos, hedge fund manager
• Edmund Bonner, bishop, known as 'Bloody Bonner'
• Kevin Brennan, Labour politician, MP for Cardiff West
• Sir Thomas Browne, seventeenth-century author
• William Camden, antiquarian and historian
• John Charmley, Professor of Modern History at the University of East Anglia
• Oz Clarke, oenophile and broadcaster
• Ed Conway, the first Economics Editor of Sky News (since 2011)
• Richard Corbet, Bishop of Oxford and Norwich, was a student resident in Broadgates Hall before it became Pembroke College
• Benjamin Cox, English baptist minister, student resident in Broadgates Hall before it became Pembroke College
• David Cracknell, former Sunday Times Political Editor
• Mary Creagh, Labour politician
• Thomas Percival Creed, Principal Queen Mary, University of London; Vice-Chancellor University of London
• Julian Critchley, journalist and Conservative politician
• Caryn Davies Rowing, World Championships, Olympic Games Gold medal
• Denzil Davies, Labour politician
• Maria Eagle, Labour government minister
• Alun Evans, Co-founder of BUSA and Chief Executive Officer of Football Association of Wales
• J. William Fulbright, Democratic U.S. Senator representing Arkansas
• Stefan Gates, food & cookery writer and television presenter
• David Allen Green, lawyer and legal writer
• Tim Griffin, Republican Member of Congress representing Arkansas
• John Hattendorf, maritime historian
• Charles Hawtrey (19th century actor)
• George Procter Hawtrey, actor and playwright
• Michael Heseltine, former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister and publisher
• Walter Isaacson, author and President and CEO of the Aspen Institute
• Samuel Johnson, lexicographer, biographer, writer, poet
• John Jordan, poet, writer, literary critic, editor, academic and broadcaster
• Roz Kaveney, writer
• Charles Kempe, Victorian stained glass designer
• John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard, diplomat
• Philip Lader, former American Ambassador to the UK, businessman
• Richard G. Lugar, American Republican Senator
• John Mummery, Lord Justice of Appeal
• Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary (1998-2002, 2010-)
• Tarik O'Regan, composer
• Mom Rajawongse Sukhumbhand Paripatra, 15th Governor of Bangkok
• John Pym, parliamentarian and critic of Charles I of England
• Peter Ricketts, diplomat
• Roland Ritchie, former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
• Win Rockefeller, American philanthropist, Lt. Governor of Arkansas
• William Shenstone, 18th Century poet
• Radek Sikorski, Polish politician and current Minister of Foreign Affairs
• James Smithson, mineralogist, benefactor of the Smithsonian Institution
• John Snagge, BBC newsreader and commentator
• The Rt Rev. Thomas Stanage, Anglican Bishop in South Africa
• Samuel John Stone, Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter (The Church's One Foundation)
• Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief of The Guardian from summer 2015
• Honeysuckle Weeks, actress
• George Whitefield, leader of the Methodist movement in the eighteenth century
• John Scott KCMG, DCL., Deputy Judge Advocate-General in Egypt, Judicial Advisor to the Khedive, 1891-98.

Fellows

John Krebs as a Hamilton lecturer at the 14th Behavioral Ecology Congress in Lund, Sweden (August 2012)

J. R. R. Tolkien, aged 24, in military uniform.

• Gerald Allen, bishop, Fellow, Dean, and Chaplain of Pembroke College (1910–20), made an Honorary Fellow in 1934
• Antony Andrewes, historian, Fellow (1933-46)
• Robert Baldick, scholar of French literature
• Simon Blackburn, philosopher, former Fellow
• The Rt Rev. Brian Burrowes, bishop, Fellow, Lecturer, Dean and Chaplain until 1937
• John Cameron, Lord Abernethy, Scottish lawyer, Honorary Fellow
• Henry William Chandler, classical scholar, elected Fellow in 1853
• R. G. Collingwood, philosopher and historian.
• David Eastwood, academic, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham since 13 April 2009, former fellow
• John Eekelaar, law lecturer, academic director of Pembroke College (2005–2009)
• Charles Harding Firth, historian, Fellow in 1887
• Malcolm Reginald Godden, Junior Research Fellow (1969–1972), Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford since May 1991.
• Richard Graves, minister and poet
• Conyngham Greene, diplomat, Honorary Fellow 1917
• Martha Klein, philosopher, retired in 2006
• John Krebs, Baron Krebs, zoologist, current Principal of Jesus College, Oxford
• Robert Reynolds Macintosh, New Zealand-born anaesthetist, Honorary Fellow 1965
• Kenneth Mackenzie, Bishop of Brechin (1935–1943), Fellow, Dean and Chaplain (1905–1910)
• Piers Mackesy, military historian, tutor in modern history and Fellow (1954-88)
• Christopher Melchert, American scholar of Islam, Fellow in Arabic
• Edward Moore, canon of Canterbury Cathedral, Honorary Fellow of Pembroke and Queen's colleges
• Robert Payne, cleric, natural philosopher, second Fellow of the college in 1624
• Zbigniew Pełczyński, politics scholar, emeritus fellow
• Thomas Risley, Presbyterian minister
• George Rolleston, physician and zoologist, Fellow 1851
• Colin Sheppard, engineer, Fellow (1979–89)
• Helen Small, Professor of English Literature
• Eric Stanley, scholar of Medieval literature, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford (1977–91)
• William Thomas, Welsh clergyman and academic, Fellow after 1760
• J. R. R. Tolkien, a Fellow from 1925 to 1945 and wrote The Hobbit and the first two books of The Lord of the Rings during his time there.
• Christopher M. Tuckett, biblical scholar, Professor of New Testament Studies and Fellow
• Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, English bishop in the Eastern Orthodox church, theologian, Fellow (1970–2001)
• Robin Wilson, mathematician, Stipendiary Lecturer at Pembroke
• Michael Winterbottom, Classics Professor
• Charles Leslie Wrenn, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon (1945–63), member of the "Inklings"

Masters

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• 1526 Richard Arche
• 1549–53 Thomas Randolph, ambassador of Elizabeth I, Principal of Broadgates Hall, which is now Pembroke College

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• 1624–47 Thomas Clayton, the last Principal of Broadgates Hall and became the first Master of Pembroke College
• 1647 Henry Wightwick, when Clayton died the Fellows elected Wightwick as Master
• 1647–60 Henry Langley, however the Parliamentary Committee for the University elected Langley
• 1660–64 Henry Wightwick, restored as Master
• 1664–1709 John Hall
• 1710–14 Colwell Brickenden
• 1714–38 Matthew Panting, contributed to the building of the Chapel
• 1738–75 John Ratcliffe
• 1775–89 William Adams
• 1789–96 William Sergrove, a descendent of Thomas Tesdale's (whose gift made Pembroke's existence possible). Died aged only 49.
• 1796–1809 John Smyth, one-time naval chaplain, his stories earned him the nickname 'Sinbad the Sailor'.
• 1809–43 George William Hall, academic administrator
• 1844–64 Francis Jeune, clergyman, Dean of Jersey (1838–1844)
• 1864–91 Evan Evans, Philipps Fellow of Pembroke College (1843–1864), serving as Tutor and senior Dean, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1878–1882)
• 1892–98 Bartholomew Price, mathematician, became fellow in 1844 and tutor and mathematical lecturer in 1845, one of the teachers of Lewis Carroll
• 1899–1918 John Mitchinson, President of the Union, teacher and Anglican priest
• 1918–55 Frederick Homes Dudden, theological scholar, Chaplain to King George V and George VI (1929–52), Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1929–32)
• 1955–68 Ronald McCallum, Fellow in history in 1925
• 1968–75 George Pickering, had held the Regius Chair of Medicine
• 1975–85 Geoffrey Arthur, diplomat
• 1985–93 Roger Bannister, medic, best known as the first man to run the mile in under four minutes.
• 1993–2001 Robert Stevens, lawyer, previously Professor of Law at Yale, President of Haverford College, Chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz
• July 2001 – July 2013 Giles Henderson CBE, Senior Partner at law firm Slaughter and May
• August 2013 – present Lynne Brindley, the former Chief Executive of the British Library, the United Kingdom's national library (July 2000-July 2012), was elected to succeed Giles Henderson as the next Master of Pembroke College beginning on 1 August 2013.