Merton College (Oxford)

Merton College is one of the colleges constituting the Université of Oxford to the the United Kingdom. It is in particular known to have had as professor J.R.R. Tolkien.

Personalities

13th century

  • John Duns Scotus, theologist and philosopher

  • Walter de Merton, bishop of Rochester

14th century

  • William off Ockham, philosopher

  • John Wycliffe, theologist

16th century

17th century

19th century

20th century

  • Theodor Adorno, philosopher, sociologist, musicologist, and art critic

  • Sir Lennox Berkeley, type-setter
  • Sir Roger Bannister, neurologist
  • Sir Basil Blackwell, salesman of books
  • Edmund Blunden, professor of poetry
  • Frank Bough,
  • Leonard Cheshire, pilot and philanthropist
  • T.S. Eliot, poet
  • Mark Haddon, writer
  • Andrew Irvine,
  • Sir Jeremy Isaacs, business manager
  • Tim Jackson,
  • Alec Jeffreys, geneticist
  • Philip Jones, musician
  • Kris Kristofferson, actor
  • Professor Anthony Leggett, physicist
  • John Lucas, philosopher
  • Louis MacNeice, poet
  • Reginald Maudling, politician
  • HIH Naruhito, Prince of Japan
  • Airey Neave, politician
  • David Parkinson,
  • Reynolds Price, poet
  • Sir George Radda, scientist
  • Michael Ridpath, writer
  • Siegfried Sassoon, poet
  • Howard K. Smith, journalist
  • Frederick Soddy, physicist
  • Sir Howard Stringer, businessman
  • Mark Thompson,
  • Professor Niko Tinbergen,
  • J.R.R. Tolkien, writer
  • Professor Sir Andrew Wiles, mathematician
  • Angus Wilson, writer

References

  • Bott, A. (1993). Merton College: With History Shorts off the Buildings . Oxford: Merton College. ISBN 0952231409.
  • Martin, G.H. & Highfield, J.R.L. (1997). has History Merton College off. Oxford: Oxford University Near. ISBN 0199201838.

External bonds

  • Merton College, Oxford

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