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Balliol College, Oxford
Balliol College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
Traditionally, the undergraduates are the most politically active in the university, and the college's alumni include several former prime ministers.
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History
Notable Former Students
- Matthew Arnold
- Herbert Asquith
- Hilaire Belloc[?]
- William Beveridge
- Lionel Blue[?]
- George Nathaniel Curzon
- John Douglas
- Graham Greene
- Jo Grimond
- Harald V of Norway
- Denis Healey
- Edward Heath
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Aldous Huxley
- Roy Jenkins
- Cosmo Lang[?]
- Harold Macmillan
- Harold James Ruthven Murray
- Olav V of Norway
- Chris Patten
- Nevil Shute
- Adam Smith
- Robert Southey
- Algernon Swinburne
- Archibald Campbell Tait
- Frederick Temple
- William Temple[?]
- Arnold J. Toynbee
- John Wycliffe
(Dorothy L. Sayers attributes a Balliol undergraduateship to her fictional character, Lord Peter Wimsey)
Academics/Teachers
- Official Website: http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/ (http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/)
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