Fictional Students of Jesus College
| Character | Author | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metcale, David !Sir David Metcalfe QC | Archer, JeffreyJeffrey Archer | A character in the play Beyond Reasonable Doubt | |
| Gilmartin, Ruth !Ruth Gilmartin | Boyd, WilliamWilliam Boyd | A principal character in Restless, who in Chapter 4 calls at her college in Turl Street; the novel is set in 1976, when Jesus College was the only Turl Street college admitting women; Boyd has also said "When, in my fiction, I have had to place a character at an Oxford college it has always been Jesus – sometimes disguised (as in my novel An Ice-Cream War) sometimes overtly identified (as in my novel Any Human Heart)" | |
| Mountstuart, Logan !Logan Mountstuart | Boyd, WilliamWilliam Boyd | A character in the novel Any Human Heart, who studies History at Jesus College in the 1920s and is awarded a third-class degree | |
| Downes, Cedric !Cedric Downes | Dexter, ColinColin Dexter | A Fellow of Brasenose in the novel The Jewel That Was Ours, who reveals that he was an undergraduate at Jesus, which he describes as "one of the less fashionable colleges" | |
| Phillips, Watkin !Sir Watkin Phillips, Bt. and others | Smollett, TobiasTobias Smollett | Phillips is mentioned in The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), an epistolary novel, as the recipient of letters from another Jesus College man, Jery Melford. There is no evidence that Phillips or Melford were based on real people, but other Jesus College men in Melford's letters (Griffy Price, Gwyn, Mansel, Basset and "our old friend Barton") may be based on individuals attending Jesus College in the 1720s and 1730s. | |
| Treasure, Mark !Mark Treasure | Williams, DavidDavid Williams | A detective in various novels by Williams; his Jesus College tie is recognised by a Welsh parson in Divided Treasure |
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