List of Masters of Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol College, Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, is governed by the Master and Fellows of the college. The Master, when elected, must be "the person who is, in their [the Fellows'] judgement, most fit for the government of the College as a place of religion, learning, and education".[1] Although the rules in no way suggest a preference for an alumnus/alumna or Fellow of the college to be chosen, there have been few who were not: only one Master in the 20th century had no previous connection with the college (David Lindsay Keir 1946-1964) and the previous non-member to hold the post before that was Theophilus Leigh, elected in 1726. However the current Master of Balliol, Helen Ghosh, studied at St Hugh's and Hertford colleges.

List of Masters of Balliol
NameDateDetails
Walter de Fodringeye1282
Hugh de Warkenby1296
Stephen de Cornubia1303
Richard de Chickwell1309
Thomas de Waldeby1321
Henry de Seton1323
Nicholas de Luceby1327
John Poclynton1332
Hugh Corbrygge1340
Robert de Derby1356
John Wycliffe1360
John Hugate1366
Thomas Tyrwhit1371
Hamond Haskman1397
William Lambert1406
Thomas Chace1412
Robert Burley1428
Richard Stapilton1429
William Brandon1429
Robert Twaytes1450
William Lambton1461
John Segden1472
Robert Abdy1477
William Bell1496
Richard Barningham1504
Thomas Cisson1511
Richard Stubbys1518
William White1525
George Coote1539
William Wright1545
James Brooks1547Bishop of Gloucester (1554–1558)
William Wright1555
Francis Babington1559
Antony Garnet1560
Robert Hooper1563
John Piers1570
Adam Squier1571
Edmund Lilly1580
Robert Abbots1609Later Bishop of Salisbury
John Parkhurst1616
Thomas Laurence1637
George Bradshaw1646
Henry Savage1650
Thomas Good1672
John Venn1678
Roger Mander1687
John Baron1704
Joseph Hunt1721
Theophilus Leigh1726Longest incumbent in office
John Davey1785
John Parsons1798Bishop of Peterborough from 1813
Richard Jenkyns1819
Robert Scott1854Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at Oxford (1861 to 1870)
Dean of Rochester (1870 to 1887)
Benjamin Jowett1870
Edward Caird1893–1907Snell Exhibitioner 1860
Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow 1866
First lay Master.[2]
James Leigh Strachan Davidson1907–16 [3]
Arthur Lionel Smith1916–24[4]
Alexander Dunlop Lindsay1924–49Vice-Chancellor in 1935. Founder of the University of Keele[5]
David Lindsay Keir1949–65Fellow of University Coll. 1921
Vice-Chancellor, Queens University, Belfast 1939.[6]
Christopher Hill1965–78
Sir Anthony Kenny1978–89
Baruch Blumberg1989–94George Eastman Visiting Professor 1983
Co-recipient of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Colin Lucas1994–2001Vice-Chancellor (1997–2004)
Andrew Graham1997–2001 (acting)
2001–2011[7][8]
Drummond Bone2011–18Byron Scholar, Snell Exhibitioner 1968
Principal of Royal Holloway, University of London (2000 to 2002)
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool (2002 to 2008)[9]
Helen GhoshFrom April 2018

References

  1. Statute II "The Master", clause 1
  2. S. M. den Otter, ‘Caird, Edward (1835–1908)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2012 accessed 16 July 2013
  3. H. W. C. Davis, ‘Davidson, James Leigh Strachan- (1843–1916)’, rev. Richard Smail, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 July 2013
  4. R. L. Patterson, ‘Smith, Arthur Lionel (1850–1924)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 16 July 2013
  5. Gary McCulloch, ‘Lindsay, Alexander Dunlop, first Baron Lindsay of Birker (1879–1952)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 July 2013
  6. M. H. Keen, ‘Keir, Sir David Lindsay (1895–1973)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009 accessed 16 July 2013
  7. The Master of Balliol, Andrew Graham, announces that he will stand down on 30 September 2011, Balliol.ox.ac.uk
  8. Final broadcast by the outgoing Master, Andrew Graham
  9. "Election of New Master". Balliol College, Oxford. 18 March 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
  • Frances Paravicini (1891). Early History of Balliol College. Oxford.
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