Balliol College, Oxford

Traditionally, the undergraduates are the most politically active in the university, and the college's alumni include several former prime ministers.

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

• Arnold Toynbee

External link

• Official Website: http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/ (http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/)