List of people associated with Lincoln College, Oxford

This is a list of Lincoln College people, including former students, Fellows, Honorary Fellows and Rectors of the college of the University of Oxford. This list is mostly male because women were only admitted to study at Lincoln in 1979.^[1]

Former students

Academics

Geoffrey Alderman (born 1944) — historian
Hugh Hale Bellot (1890–1969) — Professor of American History and Vice-Chancellor, University of London (1951–53)
David Denison (born 1950) — professor of linguistics
Roger H. Martin (born 1943) — American college president
Jeremy Waldron (born 1953) — legal and political philosopher
O. W. Wolters (1915–2000) — Malayan civil servant and pioneering historian of Southeast Asia
Deborah Bowman (born 1968) — medical ethicist
Lady Mary Wellesley — Medieval historian

Authors, actors, poets

Naomi Alderman (born 1974) — novelist
Eve Best (born 1971) — actress
William Davenant (1606–1688) — poet and playwright
Sefton Delmer (1904–1970) — journalist and WWII propagandist
James Essinger (born 1957) — writer
Mohammad Ali Jouhar (1878–1931) — Indian Muslim leader, journalist and poet
Osbert Lancaster (1908–1986) — cartoonist, critic and author
John le Carré (1931–2020) — author, pen name of David Cornwell
Emily Mortimer (born 1971) — actress
Craig Mullaney (born c. 1978) — US Army veteran and author
William Eugene Outhwaite (1847–1900) — New Zealand writer, poet, and lawyer
Tom Paulin (born 1949) — poet
Francis Pilkington (1565–1638) — composer
Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) (1904–1991) — writer and cartoonist
Kate Smurthwaite - Comedian
Edward Thomas (1878–1917) — poet
Tom Ward (born 1971) — actor

Broadcasters

Suzannah Lipscomb (born 1978) — historian and television presenter
Rachel Maddow (born 1973) — American television anchor and political analyst

Business

David Clementi (born 1949) — deputy governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of the BBC
Sir Rod Eddington (born 1950) — chief executive of British Airways, 2000–2005
Adebayo Ogunlesi (born 1953) — Chairman and Managing Partner of Global Infrastructure Partners
Sir Peter Parker (1924–2002) — Chairman of the British Railways Board, 1976–1983
Nicola Shaw (born 1968) — executive director of National Grid

Clerics

Thomas Brinknell
Gregory Cameron (born 1959) — Bishop of St Asaph, Honorary Fellow
Nathaniel Crewe, 3rd Baron Crewe (1633–1721) — Bishop of Oxford, Bishop of Durham, Rector of Lincoln College
Robert Sanderson (1587-1663) - Bishop of Lincoln (1660-1663)
Graham Tomlin (born 1958) — Bishop of Kensington
William Richard Williams (1896–1962) — theologian
Colin Winter (1928–1981) — bishop and anti-apartheid activist
John Wraw (1959–2017) — Bishop of Bradwell

Military and intelligence

John Adye (born 1939) — former director of GCHQ
David Craig, Baron Craig of Radley (born 1929) — House of Lords crossbencher and former Chief of the Defence Staff
William Sholto Douglas (1893–1969) — RAF pilot and WWII military commander
John Langdon, Royal Marine officer at D-Day, later became an Anglican priest^[2]
Jamie Shea (born 1953) — NATO spokesman

Politicians

Peter Ainsworth (1956–2021) — Conservative MP for East Surrey
Charles Banner (born 1980) - Conservative peer and King’s Counsel
Geoffrey Bing (1909–1977) — Labour MP for Hornchurch
Bill Cash (born 1940) — Conservative MP for Stone
Peter Durack (1926–2008) — Australian politician and Attorney-General of Australia
Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 18th Duke of Norfolk (born 1956) — Earl Marshal
Nick Hawkins (born 1957) — former MP (Conservative) for Blackpool South and Surrey Heath
J.A. Hobson (1858–1940) — Liberal thinker and political theorist
David Lewis (1909–1981) — Canadian MP and leader of the New Democratic Party
James Lupton, Baron Lupton, Conservative peer
Shabana Mahmood — Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood since 2010
John Morley (1838–1923) — Liberal statesman and writer
Noel Newton Nethersole (1903–1959) — Jamaican cricketer and politician, founder of the Bank of Jamaica
Chukwuemeka Ojukwu (1933–2011) — Biafran secessionist
Daniel Poneman (born 1956) — United States Deputy Secretary of Energy
Mel Reynolds (born 1952) — disgraced former United States Representative from Illinois
Lee Rowley (born 1980) — Conservative MP for North East Derbyshire since 2017^[3]
Oliver Smith (born 1993) — youngest branch party president in British political history for the Liberal Democrats
Sir John Stanley (born 1942) — former MP for Tonbridge and Malling (Conservative)
Rishi Sunak (born 1980) — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2022-2024) and Conservative MP for Richmond (Yorks) since 2015^[4]
Mahamudu Bawumia (born 1963) - Vice President of the republic of Ghana (since 2017)

Professionals

Sir Edmund Anderson (1530–1605) — Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
Alistair Asprey — Secretary for Security for Hong Kong Government, Commanding Officer of Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force
James Burge (1925–2010) — English criminal law barrister, original inspiration for the fictional barrister Rumpole of the Bailey
Horace Byatt (1875–1933) — governor of Somaliland, Tanganyika, and Trinidad and Tobago
Joseph Darracott (1934-1998) - art historian, museum curator and writer
Nicholas Hilliard (born 1959) — Common Serjeant of London
Sir Donald Limon (1932–2012) – Clerk of the House of Commons
Sir Andrew Longmore (born 1944) — Lord Justice of Appeal
Simon McKie – Advisory services chairman, writer and lecturer
Sir Robert Rogers (parliamentary official) (born 1950) – Clerk of the House of Commons

Sportsmen

Will Bratt (born 1988) — racing driver
Steph Cook (born 1972) — modern pentathlete and Olympic gold medallist
Rowland George (1905–1997) — rower and Olympic gold medallist

Academics, fellows and tutors

Edward Abraham (Sir Edward) (Fellow 1948–1999)
Peter Atkins (Fellow 1965–2007, Acting Rector 2007)
Cecile Fabre (Fellow 2010-2014)
Howard Florey (Lord Florey) (Fellow 1934–1962)
Vivian H. H. Green (Fellow 1951–2005, Rector 1983–1987)
Susan Greenfield (Fellow 1985–present)
Norman Heatley (Fellow 1948–1978, Supernumerary Fellow 1978–2004)
Paul Langford (Fellow 1970–2015, Rector 2000–2012)
Keith Murray (Fellow 1937–1993, Rector 1944–1953)
Walter Fraser Oakeshott — Academic and discoverer of the Winchester Manuscript of Le Morte d'Arthur (Rector 1954–1972)
Mark Pattison (Fellow 1839–1884, Rector 1861–1884)
John Potter (Fellow 1694–1747)
John Radcliffe (Fellow 1670–1675)
Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer (biologist and anthropologist) (Fellow 1886; Honorary Fellow 1916-1929)
Nevil Sidgwick (Fellow 1901–1958)
John Wesley — theologian and founder of Methodism

Honorary Fellows

References

^ Communication from Lindsay McCormack, college archivist
^ "The Rev John Langdon". The Times. 21 November 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
^ "Colleges, Halls, and Societies". Oxford University Gazette. 23 November 2000. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
^ "Election 2015: No change in North Yorkshire seats". BBC. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2018.

[1] Communication from Lindsay McCormack, college archivist

[2] "The Rev John Langdon". The Times. 21 November 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2020.

[3] "Colleges, Halls, and Societies". Oxford University Gazette. 23 November 2000. Retrieved 9 June 2017.

[4] "Election 2015: No change in North Yorkshire seats". BBC. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2018.

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