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Notable members
Listed alphabetically by surname (or peerage if best known by that).
Prime Ministers
- George Canning (1770—1827), Prime Minister
- Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799—1869), Prime Minister
- Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel (1903—1995), Prime Minister
- Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (1897—1977), Prime Minister
- William Ewart Gladstone (1809—1898), Prime Minister
- George Grenville (1712—1770), Prime Minister
- William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (1759—1834), Prime Minister
- Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770—1828), Prime Minister
- Sir Robert Peel (1788—1850), Prime Minister
- William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738—1809), Prime Minister
- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, (1847—1929), Prime Minister
- John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, (1792—1878), Prime Minister
- Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830—1903), Prime Minister
- William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (1737—1805), Prime Minister
Arts and media
- Sir Harold Acton (1904—1994) writer and scholar
- Sir Thomas Armstrong (1898—1994), musician
- W. H. Auden (1907—1973), poet
- Sir Adrian Boult (1889—1983), conductor
- Kenneth Barnes (1878—1957), Director of R.A.D.A.
- Robert Burton (1577—1640), writer of 'The Anatomy of Melancholy'
- Lewis Carroll (1832—1898), (real name, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), writer, clergyman and mathematician
- Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886—1959), Antarctic explorer and writer
- Laurence Cummings — conductor, organist, harpsichordist
- Richard Curtis (1956—), comedy writer
- David Dimbleby (1938—), broadcaster
- Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1938—1988), art patron
- Geoffrey Faber (1889—1961), publisher
- Michael Flanders (1922—1975), actor, writer and broadcaster
- Peter Fleming (1907—1971), traveller and writer
- Howard Goodall (1958—), composer and broadcaster
- Bryan Guinness 2nd Lord Moyne (1905—1992) poet and brewer.
- Desmond Guinness (1931—), conservationist and author.
- Richard Hakluyt (1552—1616), writer
- Anthony Howard (1934—), journalist and broadcaster
- Sir Ludovic Kennedy (1919—), broadcaster and writer
- Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775—1818), novelist and dramatist
- Harry Lloyd (1983—), actor
- S. P. B. Mais (1885—1975), author, journalist and broadcaster
- Sir John Masterman (1891—1977), academic, sportsman, author and spymaster
- Norman Painting (1924—), radio actor
- Hugh Quarshie (1954—), actor
- John Ruskin (1819—1900), critic, poet and artist
- Sir Philip Sidney (1554—1586), poet and soldier
- Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope(1805—1875), founder of the National Portrait Gallery
- J. I. M. Stewart (Michael Innes) (1906—1994), literary critic and novelist
- Donald Swann (1923—1994), composer, musician and entertainer
- John Taverner (1490—1545), composer
- Sir William Walton (1902—1983), composer
- James Twining (1972-), novelist
- Peter Warlock (1894—1930), composer and critic
- Auberon Waugh (1939—2001), author and journalist
Politics and government
- Sir Antony Acland (1930—), Head of the Diplomatic Service
- Jonathan Aitken (1942—), Conservative politician
- Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768—1854), soldier and politician
- Robert Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster (1927—), Head of the Civil Service
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928—1979), Pakistani statesman
- George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham (1753—1813), statesman
- Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (1886—1957), physicist and cabinet minister
- Alan Clark (1928—1999), politician and diarist
- Frederick Curzon, 7th Earl Howe, prominent Conservative Party statesman, was Defence Minister, Agriculture Minister, among others
- Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester (1757—1829), Speaker of the House of Commons
- William Dowdeswell (1721—1775), Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Tom Driberg, Baron Bradwell (1905—1976), politician and writer
- John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville (1690—1763), diplomat and statesman
- Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville (1815—1891), politician and Foreign Secretary
- Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone (1907—2001), Lord Chancellor
- Michael Hicks-Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn (1837—1916), Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Edward (Ted) Bigelow Jolliffe (1909—1998), Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
- John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley (1826—1902), politician and Foreign Secretary
- Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson (1932—), politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Francis Godolphin Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds (1759—1799), politician and Foreign Secretary
- Sir George Cornewall Lewis (1806—1863), writer, Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary
- Edward Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford (1902—1961)
- Francis Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford (1905—2001), politician and social reformer
- Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons (1817—1877), diplomat
- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705—1793), Lord Chief Justice and Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Sir Gilbert Murray (1866—1957), classical scholar and diplomat
- Edward Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans (1798—1877), politician
- Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury (1946—), Conservative politician
- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801–1885), politician and philanthropist
- Roger Mellor Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield (1904—1996), diplomat
- Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (Born 1988), Chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party, grandson of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and son of Benazir Bhutto
Philosophy
- Sir Alfred Ayer (1910—1989), philosopher
- John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683—1744), philosopher
- Sir Michael Dummett (1925—), philosopher
- John Locke (1632—1704), philosopher
- John Rawls, (1921—2002), philosopher
- Gilbert Ryle (1900—1976), philosopher
- John Searle (1932—), philosopher
- Daniel Dennett (1942-), philosopher
Theology
- Adam Blakeman (1596—1665), preacher and American settler
- Percy Dearmer (1867—1936), priest and liturgist
- Trevor Huddleston (1913—1998), Archbishop of Mauritius and anti-Apartheid campaigner
- Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800—1882), churchman and progenitor of the Oxford Movement
- John Macquarrie (1919—2007), Christian Existentialist
- Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499—1562), theologian
- Eric Lionel Mascall (1905—1993), Anglo-Catholic theologian
- Charles Wesley (1707—1788), Methodist preacher and hymnist
- John Wesley (1703—1791), leader of the Methodist movement
- Rowan Williams (1950—), Archbishop of Canterbury
Viceroys and Governors General
- William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (1773—1857), Governor-General of India
- George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland (1784—1849), politician and Governor-General of India
- Lord William Bentinck (1774—1839), soldier and Governor-General of India
- Charles John Canning, 1st Earl Canning (1812—1862), politician and Governor-General of India
- James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (1812—1860), politician and Governor-General of India
- Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826—1902), Governor-General of Canada and Viceroy of India
- James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811—1863), Governor-General of Canada and Viceroy of India
- Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881—1959), Foreign Secretary and Viceroy of India
- Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto (1751—1814), politician and Governor-General of India
- Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook (1826—1904), Viceroy of India and First Lord of the Admiralty
- Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760—1842), Foreign Secretary and Governor-General of India
Academia
- Robert Blake, Baron Blake (1916—2003), historian
- Robert Burchfield (1923—2004) scholar, writer, and lexicographer
- William Camden (1551—1623), antiquarian and historian
- Richard Carew (1555—1620), translator and antiquary
- Sir Raymond Carr (1919- ), historian
- Sir William Deakin (1913—2005), historian and diplomat
- Edmund Gunter (1581—1626), mathematician
- Sir Roy Harrod (1900—1978), economist
- Sir Michael Howard (1922—), historian
- Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1922- ) classical scholar
- Jan Morris (1926—), writer and historian
- Prince Dmitriy Obolensky (1918—2001), historian
- A. L. Rowse (1903—1997), historian
- Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre (1914—2003), historian
Science
- Sir Joseph Banks (1743—1820), botanist
- William Buckland (1784—1856), geologist, palaeontologist and omnivore
- Sir Richard Doll (1912—2005), epidemiologist
- Albert Einstein (elected to a 5-year research studentship in 1931)
- John Freind (1675—1728), physician and chemist
- Sir Archibald Garrod (1857—1936), physician and pioneer molecular geneticist
- Robert Hooke (1635—1703), scientist and inventor
- John Kidd (1775—1851), physician, chemist and geologist
- Sir John Maddox (1925—), science writer
- Sir Martin Ryle (1918—1984, radio astronomer
- Sir Francis Simon (1893—1956), physicist
- Sir Denys Wilkinson (1922—), nuclear physicist
- Thomas Willis (1621—1675), physician and neurologist
- Sir Martin Wood (1927—), engineer
Other
- John Boyd (1718-1800), art collector and sugar merchant
- James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797—1868), Soldier and Commander of the Light Brigade at Balaclava
- Edward VII of the United Kingdom (1841—1910), King-Emperor
- William Penn (1644—1718), founder of Pennsylvania
- Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford (1893—1971) Marshal of the Royal Air Force and Chief of the Air Staff, Second World War
See also Category: Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford and Students (i.e. Fellows) of Christ Church, Oxford
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References
- ^ Oxford College Endowment Incomes, 1973-2006 (updated July 2007)
- ^ Varley, Frederick John (1932). The Siege of Oxford: An Account of Oxford during the Civil War, 1642-1646. Oxford University Press, 128.
- ^ Adams, Reginald (1992). The college graces of Oxford and Cambridge. Perpetua Press, 62–64. ISBN 1-870882-06-7.
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External links
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History of the cathedral
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Other sites
- Christ Church Senior Common Room website
- Christ Church Graduate Common Room website
- Christ Church Junior Common Room website
- Christ Church Cathedral Choir website
- Mansfield, the Christ Church Law Society
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