List of Oriel College People - Former Fellows and Lecturers

Former Fellows and Lecturers

• Matthew Arnold - Elected 28 March 1845, perpetual Fellow 17 April 1846, vacated (due to marriage) 6 April 1852: Poet and Critic, Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1857 to 1867
• Thomas Arnold - Elected 31 March 1815, perpetual Fellow 20 July 1816, year of grace (due to marriage) 12 August 1820: Headmaster of Rugby School 1828 to 1841 and Regius Professor of Modern History from 1841 to 1842.
• Robert Beddard - Fellow to 2006: British historian.
• Thomas Edward Brown - Elected 21 April 1854, perpetual Fellow 13 April 1855, year of grace (due to marriage) 24 June 1857: Poet.

• James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce - Elected 25 April 1862, perpetual Fellow 6 April 1863, resigned June 1893, honorary fellow 12 October 1894: British jurist, historian and politician.
• John William Burgon - Elected 17 April 1846, perpetual Fellow 5 April 1847: Dean of Chichester Cathedral.
• Jeremy Catto - Fellow to 2006: British historian.
• Thomas Kelly Cheyne - Fellow 1885 to 1905: English Biblical critic.
• Richard William Church - Fellow 1838, Dean of St Paul's 1871-90.
• Arthur Hugh Clough - Elected 1 April 1842, perpetual Fellow 21 April 1843: English poet.
• Sir Zelman Cowen - Fellow 1947 to 1950: 19th Governor-General of Australia.
• Richard Cross - Fellow, Professor of Medieval Theology and Tutor in Theology.
• Henry William Carless Davis - Fellow 1925 to 1928: British historian, editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and Regius Professor of Modern History.
• George Anthony Denison - Elected 11 April 1828, perpetual Fellow 24 April 1829: English churchman, curate of Cuddesdon.
• James Fraser - Elected 24 April 1840, perpetual Fellow 1841, vacated fellowship 20 December 1861: Anglican Bishop of Manchester 1870 to 1885.
• Richard Hurrell Froude - Early leader of the Oxford Movement.
• Vivian Hunter Galbraith - Fellow of the British Academy and Oxford Regius Professor of Modern History.
• Sir Alexander Grant, 10th Baronet - Elected 13 April 1849, perpetual Fellow 1 April 1850, vacated (married) 2 June 1860: British educationalist and Principal of the University of Edinburgh
• Simon Hornblower - Fellow until 1997, since when Professor of Classics and Grote Professor of Ancient History University College London
• Michael Eliot Howard - Fellow and Regius Professor of Modern History, 1980 to 1989
• John Keble - Fellow 1811 to 1835: One of the leaders of the Oxford Movement, Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1831 to 1841, gave his name to Keble College in 1870.
• Raymond Klibansky - Honorary Fellow, Canadian Philosopher.
• Richard Mant - Fellow 1798: English churchman and writer.
• John Henry Newman - Major figure in the Oxford Movement.
• Frederick York Powell - Fellow and Regius Professor of Modern History, 1894 to 1904
• Edward Bouverie Pusey - One of the leaders of the Oxford Movement.
• Richard Robinson - Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy 1946–69, Author of An Atheists Values
• William Young Sellar - Fellow: Scottish classical scholar.
• John Robinson - Fellow: English diplomat, Bishop of Bristol and London.
• John W C Wand - Fellow and Dean from 1925: English born Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane, Australia.
• Richard Whately - Undergraduate, Fellow 1811: English logician, economist and theological writer, Archbishop of Dublin
• John Wordsworth - Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture, Bishop of Salisbury.