Oriel College, Oxford

Notable Former Academics/Teachers

• Matthew Arnold - Fellow 1845 to 1852: Poet and Critic.
• Thomas Arnold - Fellow 1815 to 1821: Headmaster of Rugby School 1828 to 1841 and Regius Professor of Modern History from 1841 to 1842.
• Thomas Edward Brown - Fellow 1845: Poet.
• James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce - Fellow 1862: British jurist, historian and politician.
• John William Burgon - Fellow 1846: Dean of Chichester Cathedral.
• Thomas Kelly Cheyne - Fellow 1885 to 1905: English Biblical critic.
• Arthur Hugh Clough - Fellow: English poet.
• Sir Zelman Cowen - Fellow 1947 to 1950: 19th Governor-General of Australia.
• George Anthony Denison - Fellow 1828: English churchman, curate of Cuddesdon.
• James Fraser - Fellow 1840: Anglican Bishop of Manchester 1870 to 1885.
• Richard Hurrell Froude - Early leader of the Oxford Movement.
• Robert Alfred Cloynes Godwin-Austen - Undgraduate and Fellow 1830: English geologist.
• 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, gave his name to Keble College in 1870.
• 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.
• William Young Sellar - Fellow: Scottish classical scholar.
• John Robinson - Fellow: English diplomat, Bishop of Bristol and London.
• Richard Whately - Undergraduate, Fellow 1811: English logician and theological writer, Archbishop of Dublin