List: Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford

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•  Michael Foot

  Michael Mackintosh Foot (23 July 1913 – 3 March 2010) was a British Labour politician and writer, who was a Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1955 and from a by-election in 1960 until 1992. He was also the Leader of the Opposition from 1980 to 1983. Associated with the Labour left for most of his career, he was a passionate supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and British withdrawal from the European Economic Community.

  

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•  Tony Richardson

  Cecil Antonio "Tony" Richardson (5 June 1928 – 14 November 1991) was an English theatre and film director and producer.

  

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•  Christopher Wren

  Sir Christopher Wren (20 October 1632 – 25 February 1723) was one of the best known and highest acclaimed English architects in history, responsible for rebuilding 51 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including his masterpiece, St. Paul's Cathedral, completed in 1710. Educated in Latin and Aristotelian physics at the University of Oxford, Wren was a notable astronomer, geometer, mathematician-physicist as well as an architect.

  

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•  Charles Badham

  This is about a professor from Australia, for the physician from London see Charles Badham (physician). Charles Badham (19 July 1813 – 27 February 1884) was an English university professor, active in Australia.

  

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•  Rowan Williams

  Rowan Douglas Williams (born 14 June 1950) is an Anglican bishop, poet, and theologian. He is the current (104th) Archbishop of Canterbury, Metropolitan of the Province of Canterbury and Primate of All England, offices he has held since early 2003.

  

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•  Thomas Beecham

  Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet, CH (29 April 1879 – 8 March 1961) was a British conductor and impresario. From the early twentieth century until his death, Beecham was a major influence on the musical life of Britain and, according to Neville Cardus, was the first British conductor to have a regular international career.

  

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•  Rosamund Pike

  Rosamund Mary E Pike (born 27 January 1979) is an English actress. Her film roles include Bond villainess Miranda Frost in Die Another Day, Maggie Greer in Surrogates and Helen in An Education.

  

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•  Samuel Augustus Barnett

  Samuel Augustus Barnett (8 February 1844 – 17 June 1913) was an Anglican clergyman and social reformer particularly associated with the establishment of the first university settlement, Toynbee Hall in east London in 1884. He was born in Bristol, the son of Francis Augustus Barnett, an iron manufacturer. After leaving Wadham College, Oxford, in 1866, he visited the United States.

  

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•  Cecil Day-Lewis

  Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis) CBE (27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972) was an Irish poet and the British Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under pseudonym of Nicholas Blake. He is the father of actor Daniel Day-Lewis and documentary filmmaker and television chef Tamasin Day-Lewis.

  

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•  Richard Bentley

  Richard Bentley (January 27, 1662 – July 14, 1742) was an English theologian, classical scholar and critic.

  

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•  Humphrey Hody

  Humphrey Hody (1659 – 20 January 1707) was an English scholar and theologian.

  

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•  Thomas Sprat

  Thomas Sprat (1635 – 20 May 1713), English divine, was born at Beaminster, Dorset, and educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where he held a fellowship from 1657 to 1670. Having taken orders he became a prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral in 1660. In the preceding year he had gained a reputation by his poem To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince Oliver, Lord Protector (London, 1659), and he was afterwards well known as a wit, preacher and man of letters.

  

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•  Alan Bullock

  Alan Louis Charles Bullock, Baron Bullock (13 December 1914 – 2 February 2004), was a British historian, who wrote an influential biography of Adolf Hitler and many other works.

  

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•  Robert Blake (admiral)

  Robert Blake (1599 – 17 August 1657) was one of the most important military commanders of the Commonwealth of England, and one of the most famous English admirals of the 17th century. Blake was one of thirteen siblings born to a merchant in Bridgwater, Somerset, where he attended Bridgwater Grammar School For Boys.

  

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•  Richard William Church

  Richard Christopher Church (25 April 1815 – 6 December 1890) was an English churchman and writer. He was son of Christopher Church, brother of Sir Richard Church, a merchant, was born in Newport, his early years being mostly spent in Bulwark. In later life he was known as Dean Church.

  

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•  John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon

  John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon GCSI GCVO OBE PC (28 February 1873 – 11 January 1954) was a British politician and statesman.

  

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•  Reginald Victor Jones

  Reginald Victor Jones, CH CB CBE FRS, (29 September 1911–17 December 1997) was an English physicist and scientific military intelligence expert who played an important role in the defence of Britain in World War II.

  

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•  William Fox (New Zealand)

  Sir William Fox, KCMG (1812 – 23 June 1893) was the second Premier of New Zealand on four occasions in the 19th century, while New Zealand was still a colony. He was known for his eventual support of Māori land rights, his contributions to the education system (such as establishing the University of New Zealand), and his work to increase New Zealand's autonomy from Britain. He has been described as determined and intelligent, but also as bitter and "too fond" of personal attacks.

  

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•  Melvyn Bragg

  Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, FRSL, FRTS (born 6 October 1939) is an English author, broadcaster and media personality who, aside from his many literary endeavours, is perhaps most recognised for his work on The South Bank Show.

  

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•  Alan Coren

  Alan Coren (27 June 1938 – 18 October 2007) was an English humorist, writer and satirist who was well known as a regular panellist on the BBC radio quiz The News Quiz and a team captain on BBC television's Call My Bluff. Coren was also a journalist, and for nine years was the editor of Punch magazine.

  

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•  Tom Allen

  Thomas Hodge "Tom" Allen (born April 16, 1945) was a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Maine's 1st congressional district, and the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2008 against Republican incumbent Senator Susan Collins. Allen lost overwhelmingly to Collins (61.5% to 38.5%) even though Democrats nationally enjoyed large gains in both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives.

  

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•  Neil Gerrard

  Neil Francis Gerrard (born 3 July 1942) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Walthamstow since 1992.

  

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•  Kamisese Mara

  Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, GCMG, KBE, CF, (May 6, 1920 – April 18, 2004) is considered the founding father of the modern nation of Fiji. He was Chief Minister from 1967 to 1970, when Fiji gained its independence from the United Kingdom, and, apart from one brief interruption in 1987, the first Prime Minister from 1970 to 1992. He subsequently served as President from 1993 to 2000.

  

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•  Arthur Onslow

  Arthur Onslow (1 October 1691 – 17 February 1768) was an English politician. He was the elder son of Foot Onslow (died 1710) and his wife Susannah. Onslow was born in Kensington and educated at The Royal Grammar School, Guildford and Winchester College and matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford in 1708, although he took no degree. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1713, but had no great practice in law.

  

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•  Evan Harris

  Evan Leslie Harris MB ChB MP (born 21 October 1965) is an English Liberal Democrat politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Oxford West and Abingdon.

  

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