Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

Traditionally, the undergraduates are the most politically active in the university, and the college's alumni include several former prime ministers.

During Benjamin Jowett's Mastership in the 19th Century, the College rose from its relative obscurity to occupy the first rank of colleges, a position from which it has never since faltered. Herbert Asquith once described Balliol men as possessing "the tranquil consciousness of an effortless superiority".

Table of contents

1 History 2 Notable Former Students 3 Academics/Teachers 4 External link

History

Notable Former Students

• Matthew Arnold
• Herbert Asquith
• Hilaire Belloc
• William Beveridge
• Lionel Blue
• George Nathaniel Curzon
• John Douglas
• Graham Greene
• Jo Grimond
• Harald V of Norway
• Denis Healey
• Edward Heath
• Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Aldous Huxley
• Roy Jenkins
• Boris Johnson
• Cosmo Lang
• Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne
• Harold Macmillan
• Harold James Ruthven Murray
• Stafford Northcote
• Olav V of Norway
• Chris Patten
• Nevil Shute
• Adam Smith
• Robert Southey
• Algernon Swinburne
• Archibald Campbell Tait
• Frederick Temple
• William Temple
• Arnold J. Toynbee
• John Wycliffe

(Dorothy L. Sayers attributes a Balliol undergraduateship to her fictional character, Lord Peter Wimsey)

Academics/Teachers

• Roy Ridley
• Arnold Toynbee

External link

• Official Website: http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/