List of people associated with Trinity College, Oxford

This is a list of notable people affiliated with Trinity College at Oxford University, England. It includes former students, current and former academics and fellows, as listed in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography or another available source. The overwhelming maleness of this list is explained by the fact that for over 90% of its history (from its foundation in 1555 until 1979), Trinity was an all-male institution.^[1]

Former students

Academics and explorers

Nigel Anderson
John Aubrey FRS
Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston
Sir Richard Burton KCMG FRGS (sent down)
Kenneth Clark OM CH KCB FBA
Vincent Cronin FRSL
Mamoru Imura
Miles Kington
Wlodzimierz Julian Korab-Karpowicz
Sir Arthur Norrington
William Gifford Palgrave
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

Scientists, engineers and mathematicians

Artists and broadcasters

Business

Sir Angus Ogilvy KCVO
John Preston (1950-2017), music industry executive^[3]
Sir William Stuttaford KBE
Sir Peter Stothard
Huw van Steenis
Tunku Varadarajan

Clergy and theology

Right Reverend Aubrey Aitken
Reverend Canon Sidney Alexander
John Arnold
George Blackwell
Reverend Henry Joy Fynes-Clinton
Most Reverend John Gilbert
Right Reverend Dr Rupert Hoare
Right Reverend Dr Kenneth Kirk (Chaplain 1922–33)
Very Reverend Robert MacCarthy
Reverend Canon Christopher Oswald Miles
Right Reverend James Newcome
Saint John Henry Newman DD OC
Reverend Canon George Rawlinson
Right Reverend Archibald Robertson
John Rogers
Reverend Montague Summers

Diplomats and colonial administrators

Lawyers

Major Sir Edward Atkinson KCB CBE
Peter Birks
Rayner Goddard, Baron Goddard (former Lord Chief Justice)
Philip Seaforth James
John Lewger, first secretary and attorney general of Maryland, United States
John McNeill, QC, Crown Advocate of the British Supreme Court for China and chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association

Military

Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse VC & Bar MC
Major General Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard GCVO CB CBE MC
Flight Lieutenant Richard Hillary RAFVR
Henry Ireton
Lieutenant General Frank Klotz USAF
Sarah Oakley, Royal Navy officer^[4]
Squadron Leader Dinghy Young DFC & Bar RAFVR

Politicians

Sports people

Andrew Comrie-Picard, X Games medalist and Hollywood stuntman
Simon Danielli, rugby union player for Ulster and Scotland
Constantine Louloudis, rower, bronze medalist in the 2012 Summer Olympics and gold medalist in the 2016 Summer Olympics
Bonnie St. John, medal-winning Paralympic skier
Henry Melvin 'Dinghy' Young, RAF pilot and rower in the 1938 Boat Race

Miscellaneous

Journalists

Fictional characters

Fictional former students include Jay Gatsby, the title character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby who attends Trinity briefly after World War I, and Tiger Tanaka, an ally of James Bond in Ian Fleming's 1964 novel You Only Live Twice who receives a first in PPE before World War II.

Recent books in which Trinity features prominently are:

Cartwright, Justin (2008). This Secret Garden. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-0-7475-7961-8.
von Siemens, Carl (2010). Kleine Herren. Ein Deutscher in Oxford. Frankfurt am Main: Scherz. ISBN 978-3-502-15159-3.
Flintoff, Ian (2015). Gatsby at Trinity. Oxford: YouCaxton-Pitchfork Production. ISBN 978-190964-469-4.

Fellows

John Michael Hammersley FRS (1920–2004), mathematician
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood FRS (1897–1967), physical chemist; Nobel laureate
Sir Henry Stuart Jones FBA (1867–1939), classicist
Martin Kemp (born 1942), art historian
Ronald Knox (1888–1957), theologian
Hans Adolf Krebs (1900–1981), biologist; Nobel laureate
David Lambert Lack FRS (1910–1973), evolutionary biologist
Michael Maclagan (1914–2003), historian
Rodney Robert Porter FRS (1917–1985), biochemist; Nobel laureate
Sir Edwin Southern FRS (born 1938), molecular biologist
Sir Ronald Syme FBA (1903–1989), ancient historian
Gail Trimble (born 1982), classicist
Thomas Warton (1728–1790), historian and poet

Presidents

The head of Trinity College, Oxford, is titled the president.

16th century

Thomas Slythurst (1556–1559; first president)
Arthur Yeldard (1559–1599)
Ralph Kettell (1599–1643)

17th century

Hannibal Potter (1643–1648; first term)
Robert Harris (1648–1658)
Seth Ward (1659–1660)
Hannibal Potter (1660–1664; second term)
Ralph Bathurst (1664–1704)

18th century

Thomas Sykes (1704–1705)
William Dobson (1706–1731)
George Huddesford (1731–1776)
Joseph Chapman (1776–1808)

19th century

Thomas Lee (1808–1824)
James Ingram (1824–1850)
Samuel William Wayte (1866–1878)
John Percival (1879–1887)
Henry George Woods (1887–1897)
Henry Francis Pelham (1897–1907)

20th century

Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston (1907–1938)
J. R. H. Weaver (1938–1954)
Arthur Norrington (1954–1970)
Alexander George Ogston (1970–1978)
Anthony Quinton (1978–1987)
John Burgh (1987–1996)
Michael Beloff (1996–2006)

21st century

Sir Ivor Roberts (2006–2017)
Dame Hilary Boulding (2017–present)

References

^ Oneltd. "Trinity College – Modern Trinity". www.trinity.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
^ "James Michie" (obituary), The Independent, 21 November 2007, accessed 8 June 2023
^ Denselow, Robin (1 December 2017). "John Preston obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
^ Captain S. E. Oakley Royal Navy Captain Britannia Royal Naval College profile at royalnavy.mod.uk, accessed 7 November 2022

[1] Oneltd. "Trinity College – Modern Trinity". www.trinity.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 May 2018.

[2] "James Michie" (obituary), The Independent, 21 November 2007, accessed 8 June 2023

[3] Denselow, Robin (1 December 2017). "John Preston obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 December 2017.

[4] Captain S. E. Oakley Royal Navy Captain Britannia Royal Naval College profile at royalnavy.mod.uk, accessed 7 November 2022

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