Balliol College, Oxford
Balliol College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
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
- Herbert Asquith
- Hilaire Belloc
- William Beveridge
- Lionel Blue
- Grahame Greene
- Joe Grimond
- Harald V of Norway
- Denis Healey
- Edward Heath
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Aldous Huxley
- Roy Jenkins
- Cosmo Lang
- Harold Macmillan
- Olav V of Norway
- Chris Patten
- Siegfried Sassoon
- Nevil Shute
- Adam Smith
- Robert Southey
- Algernon Swinburne
- Frederick Temple
- William Temple
- John Wycliffe
(Dorothy L. Sayers attributes a Balliol undergraduateship to her fictional character, Lord Peter Wimsey)