Cuthbert Tunstall was an English humanist, bishop, diplomat, administrator and royal adviser. He served as Bishop of Durham during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I.
Sir James Fitzjames Duff was an English academic and Vice-chancellor of Durham University.
Durham College was a college of the University of Oxford, founded by the monks of Durham Priory in the late 13th century and endowed by Bishop Thomas Hatfield in 1381.
Thomas Wilson (1524–1581), Esquire, LL.D., was an English diplomat and judge who served as a privy councillor and Secretary of State (1577–81) to Queen Elizabeth I. He is remembered especially for his Logique (1551) and The Arte of Rhetorique (1553), which have been called "the first complete works on logic and rhetoric in English".
Charles Thorp, was an English churchman, rector of the parish of Ryton and, later, Archdeacon of Durham and the first warden of the University of Durham.
Robert Horne was an English churchman, and a leading reforming Protestant. One of the Marian exiles, he was subsequently bishop of Winchester from 1560 to 1580.
Ralph Brideoake (1612/13–1678) was an English clergyman, who became Bishop of Chichester.
Thomas Sampson was an English Puritan theologian. A Marian exile, he was one of the Geneva Bible translators. On his return to England, he had trouble with conformity to the Anglican practices. With Laurence Humphrey, he played a leading part in the vestments controversy, a division along religious party lines in the early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England.
Henry Cole was a senior English Roman Catholic churchman and academic.
Robert Skinner was an English bishop who served consecutively as Bishop of Bristol, Bishop of Oxford, and Bishop of Worcester.
Ralph Hamsterley was a Master of University College, Oxford, England.
George Ryves was an English academic administrator at the University of Oxford.
Martin Culpepper was an English clergyman, medical doctor, and academic at the University of Oxford.
Thomas Whyte was an English clergyman and academic at the University of Oxford.
Henry Bridgeman was an Anglican clergyman who served in the Church of England as the Bishop of Sodor and Man from 1671 to 1682.
Thomas Musgrave was Dean of Carlisle from 1684 until his death in 1686.
Ralph Eure, 3rd Baron Eure, of Ingleby and Malton, Yorkshire, was an English nobleman and politician. The surname, also given as Evers, was at that time probably pronounced "Ewry".
Richard Barber DCL was an English priest in 16th-century.
