List of alumni of Hertford College

A list of alumni of Hertford College, Oxford.

Hart Hall (1282–1740)

Saint Alexander Briant, Jesuit martyr John Donne, poet, Anglican priest Nicholas Fuller, Hebraist, philologist Henry Pelham, British Whig Prime Minister John Selden, jurist, MP for Oxford University Jonathan Swift, satirist, poet, Anglican priest, author of Gulliver's Travels

Magdalen Hall, old site 1448–1822

Matthew Bryan, Jacobite preacher Samuel Daniel, poet, historian Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice Thomas Hobbes, political philosopher, author of Leviathan Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, historian, statesman William Tyndale, Bible translator, Reformation martyr Henry Vane the Younger, Parliamentarian statesman William Waller, Parliamentarian soldier

Magdalen Hall, new site 1822–1874

William Robinson Clark, theologian Clement Jackson, founder of the Amateur Athletic Association William Williams, first Anglican Bishop of Waiapu, New Zealand Leonard Williams, third Bishop of Waiapu (son of William Williams) Francis McDougall, first Anglican bishop of Labuan and the Kingdom of Sarawak.

Hertford College, first foundation 1740–1816

Charles James Fox, Whig statesman John Hippisley, politician, diplomat

Hertford College, second foundation 1874–

Richard Addinsell, composer of film music Bernard Ashmole, archaeologist, art historian Andrea Ashworth, author, academic John Behan, educationist, jurist Marian Bell, economist Catherine Bennett, journalist Fiona Bruce, BBC newsreader Calvin Cheng, Singapore modelling agency head, former Nominated Member of Parliament Nick Cohen, political journalist Geoffrey Corbett, civil servant and mountaineer[1] Sherard Cowper-Coles, diplomat George Dangerfield, journalist, historian Daniel Dennett, philosopher of the mind David Dilks, historian J. Meade Falkner, novelist, The Lost Stradivarius Richard W. Fisher, diplomat Adam Fleming, BBC newsreader Pinny Grylls, film director Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Channel 4 newsreader Gideon Henderson, geochemist, climate-change scientist Nicholas Henderson, diplomat Leonard Hodgson, church historian Jeffrey John, Dean of St Alban's Cathedral Mark S. Joshi, financial mathematician Natasha Kaplinsky, ITN newsreader Soweto Kinch, jazz saxophonist, rapper 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 David Naylor, medical researcher Edward Max Nicholson, founder of the World Wildlife Fund Richard Norton-Taylor, journalist, playwright Richard Parsons, founder of CGP Guides Peter Pears, tenor Barbara A. Perry, constitutional lawyer James Pettifer, scholar of the Balkans Jacqui Smith, former British Home Secretary Manisha Tank, CNN newsreader Ed Vulliamy, journalist and world reporter Evelyn Waugh, author of Brideshead Revisited, journalist Byron White, U.S. Associate Supreme Court Justice Tobias Wolff, author of This Boy's Life Nathaniel Woodard, educationalist

Notes

1. 'Sir G. L. Corbett' in The Times, issue 47832 dated 3 November 1937, p. 16