List of masters of Balliol College, Oxford

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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.

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Benjamin Jowett
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Edward Caird
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James Leigh Strachan Davidson
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Baruch Samuel Blumberg
List of masters of Balliol
NameDateDetails
Walter de Fodringeye 1282
Hugh de Warkenby 1296
Stephen de Cornubia 1303
Richard de Chickwell 1309
Thomas de Waldeby 1321
Henry de Seton 1323
Nicholas de Luceby 1327
John Poclynton 1332
Hugh Corbrygge 1340
Robert de Derby 1356
John Wycliffe 1360
John Hugate 1366
Thomas Tyrwhit 1371
Hamond Haskman 1397
William Lambert 1406
Thomas Chase 1412
Robert Burley 1428
Richard Stapilton 1429
William Brandon 1429
Robert Twaytes 1450
William Lambton 1461
John Segden 1472
Robert Abdy 1477
William Bell 1496
Richard Barningham 1504
Thomas Cisson 1511
Richard Stubbys 1518
William White 1525
George Coote 1539
William Wright 1545
James Brooks 1547 Bishop of Gloucester (1554–1558)
William Wright 1555
Francis Babington 1559
Antony Garnet 1560
Robert Hooper 1563
John Piers 1570
Adam Squier 1571
Edmund Lilly 1580
Robert Abbots 1609Later Bishop of Salisbury
John Parkhurst 1616
Thomas Laurence 1637
George Bradshaw 1646
Henry Savage 1650
Thomas Good 1672
John Venn 1678
Roger Mander 1687
John Baron 1704
Joseph Hunt 1721
Theophilus Leigh 1726Longest incumbent in office
John Davey 1785
John Parsons 1798 Bishop of Peterborough from 1813
Richard Jenkyns 1819
Robert Scott 1854 Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at Oxford (1861 to 1870)
Dean of Rochester (1870 to 1887)
Benjamin Jowett 1870
Edward Caird 1893–1907 Snell Exhibitioner 1860
Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow 1866
First lay Master. [2]
James Leigh Strachan Davidson 1907–16 [3]
Arthur Lionel Smith 1916–24 [4]
Alexander Dunlop Lindsay 1924–49Vice-Chancellor in 1935. Founder of the University of Keele [5]
David Lindsay Keir 1949–65Fellow of University Coll. 1921
Vice-Chancellor, Queen's University Belfast 1939. [6]
Christopher Hill 1965–78
Sir Anthony Kenny 1978–89
Baruch Blumberg 1989–94 George Eastman Visiting Professor 1983
Co-recipient of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Colin Lucas 1994–2001Vice-Chancellor (1997–2004)
Andrew Graham 1997–2001 (acting)
2001–2011 [7] [8]
Drummond Bone 2011–18Byron 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 Ghosh From April 2018

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