Queer Places:
University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3PA
The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university located in Oxford. While having no known date of foundation, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest surviving university. It grew rapidly from 1167 when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris. After disputes between students and Oxford townsfolk in 1209, some academics fled northeast to Cambridge where they established what became the University of Cambridge. The two ancient universities are frequently jointly referred to as Oxbridge. The university is made up of a variety of institutions, including 38 constituent colleges and a full range of academic departments which are organised into four divisions.
Notable queer alumni and faculty:
A.E. Housman (1859-1936), A.L. Rowse (1903–1997), Adrian Brown (1929-2019), Adrian Stokes (1902–1972), Adrienne Rich (1929-2012), Agnes Catherine Maitland (1850-1906), Agnes de Selincourt (1872–1917), Agnes Headlam-Morley (1902–1986), Alain LeRoy Locke (1885-1954), Alan Bennett (born 1934), Alan Hollinghurst (born 1954), Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton (1904-1983), Alan Pryce-Jones (1908–2000), Alastair Hugh Graham (1904-1982, Hypocrites' Club & Bright Young Things), Albrecht von Bernstorff (1890-1945), Aldous Huxley (1894-1963, Bloomsbury Group), Alexander James "A.J." Carlyle (1861-1943), Alfred Douglas (1870-1945), Alfred Duggan (1903–1964, Hypocrites' Club), Alfred W. Pollard (1859–1944), Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), Alice Bruce (1867–1951), Alix Kilroy (1903-1999), Ambrose St John (1815-1875), Amrit Kaur (1889–1964), Angus Wilson (1913-1991), Anthony Asquith (1902-1968), Anthony Blond (1928–2008), Anthony "Tony" Bower (1911-1972), Anthony Bushell (1904–1997, Hypocrites' Club), Anthony Crosland (1918–1977), Anthony Eden (1897–1977), Anthony Powell (1905-2000, Hypocrites' Club & Bright Young Things), Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent (1884-1940), Antony Copley (1937–2016), Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929), Arden Hilliard (1904-1976, Hypocrites' Club & Bright Young Things), Arthur Giardelli (1911–2009), Arthur Gore, 7th Earl of Arran (1903–1958), Arthur Helps (1813–1875), Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861), Arthur Sidgwick (1840-1920), Arthur Smith Graham (1871-1928), Augustus Hare (1834–1903), Barbara Hammond (1873-1961), Beau Brummell (1778-1840), Benedict Nicolson (1914-1978, Bloomsbury Group), Bernard Winthrop Swithinbank (1884-1958), Bertha Phillpotts (1877–1932), Bessie Charles (1869–1932), Beverley Nichols (1898–1983, Bright Young Things), Brian Howard (1905-1958, Hypocrites' Club & Bright Young Things), Brian Paddick, Baron Paddick (born 1958), Brigid Brophy (1929–1995), Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne (1905-1992, Bright Young Things), Bunny Breckinridge (1903–1996), Bunny Roger (1911–1997), C.H.B. Kitchin (1895-1967, Bloomsbury Group), C.V. Wedgwood (1910–1997), Carl Winter (1906-1966), Carlo Placci (1861-1941), Caroline Spurgeon (1869–1942), Catherine Pozzi (1882–1934), Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972), Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902), Charles Brasch (1909–1973), Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908), Charles Harold Curtis Prentice (1891-1949), Charles Holmes (1868–1936), Charles Kegan Paul (1828–1902), Charles Shorting (1841–1897), Charlotte Anne Moberly (1846–1937), Chips Channon (1897–1958), Christabel Marshall (1871-1960), Christopher Hassall (1912–1963), Christopher Hollis (1902–1977, Hypocrites' Club), Christopher Strachey (1916–1975), Clara French (1863-1888), Claud Cockburn (1904–1981, Hypocrites' Club), Claude Delaval Cobham (1842-1915), Colin Turnbull (1924-1994), Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972), Constance Coltman (1889-1969), Cormell "Crom" Price (1835–1910), Cornelia Sorabji (1866–1954), Cyril Connolly (1903-1974), D.G. Champernowne (1912–2000), David Astor (1912–2001), David Carritt (1927–1982), David Cecil (1902–1986, Bright Young Things), David Frederick Case (1932–2005), David Hunter Blair (1853-1939), David Johnson (1902–1973), David Plunket Greene (1904-1941, Hypocrites' Club & Bright Young Things), David Shipman (1932–1996), Dennis Price (1915-1973), Derek Jackson (1906-1982, Bright Young Things), Derek Pattinson (1930–2006), Desmond Coke (1879–1931), Desmond Parsons (1910-1937, Bright Young Things), Desmond Shawe-Taylor (1907-1995), Diana Beck (1900–1956), Donald Gallup (1913-2000), Dorothea Beale (1831–1906), Douglas Cooper (1911–1984), Douglas LePan (1914–1998), E.E. Evans-Pritchard (1902–1973, Hypocrites' Club), E.J. Dent (1876–1957), Eardley Knollys (1902-1991, Bloomsbury Group), Edith Finch Russell (1900–1978), Edith Morley (1875–1964), Edith Olivier (1872–1948), Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet (1873–1944), Edmund Oldfield (1816–1902), Edmund Tracey (1927-2007), Édouard Roditi (1910–1992), Edvard Grieg (1843–1907), Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892), Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898), Edward Cracroft Lefroy (1855-1891), Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (1926-2015), Edward Gathorne-Hardy (1901–1978, Bright Young Things), Edward Heath (1916–2005), Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon (1661-1723), Edward James (1907-1984), Edward Lucie-Smith (born 1933), Edward Perry Warren (1860-1928), Edward Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville (1901–1965), Edward William Urquhart (1839-1916) Edwin Emmanuel Bradford (1860–1944), Eglantyne Jebb (1876–1928), Eleanor Constance Lodge (1869-1936), Eleanor Jourdain (1863–1924), Eleanor Rathbone (1872-1946), Eliza Marian Butler (1885–1959), Elizabeth Kimball Kendall (1855-1952), Elizabeth Wade White (1906–1994), Elizabeth Wordsworth (1840–1932), Elliot Morgan (1906-1999), Emily Davison (1872–1913), Emlyn Williams (1905-1987), Enid Marx (1902–1998), Eric Bentley (born 1916), Eric Stenbock (1860-1895), Ernest Dowson (1867-1900), Ernst Kantorowicz (1895–1963), Ethel Charles (1871–1962), Ethel Smyth (1858–1944), Eudora Welty (1909–2001), Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor (1879–1966), Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar (1893-1949, Bright Young Things), Evelyn Irons (1900-2000), Evelyn Sharp, Baroness Sharp (1903–1985), Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966, Bright Young Things), F.C.S. Schiller aka Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller (1864–1937), F.O. Matthiessen (1902-1950), Fabian S. Woodley (1888–1957), Felix Yusupov (1887–1967), Francis Beaumont (1584–1616), Francis Haskell (1928–2000), Francis Hervey (1846–1931), Francis King (1923–2011), Francis Turville-Petre (1901–1942), Francis William Bourdillon (1852–1921), Francis Whithed (1719-1751), Frank Podmore (1856–1910), Fred Shirley (1890–1967), Frederick Denison Maurice (1805-1872), Frederick Hankey (1833–1892), Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet (1845-1937), Frederick William Faber (1814–1863), Frith Banbury (1912–2008), G.H. Hardy (1877–1947), G.T. Lapsley (1871–1949), Garry Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford (1934–2020), Gavin Henderson, 2nd Baron Faringdon (1902-1977, Hypocrites' Club & Bright Young Things), Gavin Lambert (1924-2005), Gavin Maxwell (1914-1969), Geoffrey Scott (1884–1929), Geoffrey Thurlow (1895-1917), George Benson (1613–1692), George Butterworth (1885-1916), George Gabriel Scott Gillett (1873-1948), George Passmore (born 1942), George Pitcher (1925–2018), George Powell (1842-1882), George Rose (1920–1988), George Santayana (1863–1952), George Walter Wrangham (1804–1855), Georgy Adamovich (1892-1972), Gerald Caldwell Siordet (1885-1917), Gerald Heard (1889–1971), Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), Gerry Zammit (1930–1961), Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), Gervase Elwes (1866–1921), Giles Hibbert (1923-2013), Glyn Simon (1903–1972), Graham Pollard (1903–1976, Hypocrites' Club), Grant Allen (1848–1899), Gwendolen M. Carter (1906-1991), Gyles Isham (1903–1976), H. Montgomery Hyde (1907-1989), H.D. Ziman (1902-1983, Hypocrites' Club), Hallam Tennyson (1920–2005), Hamish St Clair-Erskine (1909-1973, Bright Young Things), Harold Acton (1904-1994, Hypocrites' Club & Bright Young Things), Harold Nicolson (1886–1968, Bloomsbury Group), Harry Dwight Dillon Ripley (1908-1973), Harry Fox-Strangways, 7th Earl of Ilchester (1905–1964), Henry James Sumner Maine (1822–1888), Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath (1905-1992, Bright Young Things), Henry William Greville (1801–1872), Henry Yorke (1905-1973, Bright Young Things), Hilda D. Oakeley (1867–1950), Hilda Matheson (1888–1940, Bloomsbury Group), Horatio Brown (1854–1926), Howard Hodgkin (1932–2017), Hugh Lygon (1904-1936, Hypocrites' Club & Bright Young Things), Hurrell Froude (1803–1836), Ian Buist (1930–2012), Ian Harvey (1914–1987), Ingram Bywater (1840-1914), Iris Murdoch (1919–1999), Ivor Novello (1893-1951), Jacqueline Hope-Wallace (1909-2011), Jaime Gil de Biedma (1929–1990), James B. Nelson (1930-2015), James Courage (1903-1963), James Elroy Flecker (1884–1915), James Joll (1918–1994), James Lees-Milne (1908-1997, Bright Young Things), James Pope-Hennessy (1916–1974), James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin (1903–1960), Jan Morris (1926-2020), Janet Ruth Bacon (1891–1965), Janet Vaughan (1899–1993), Janette Ranken (1877–1970), Jaquelin T. Robertson (1933–2020), Jeremy Thorpe (1929–2014), Jeremy Wolfenden (1934–1965), Jerone R. Hart (1946-2010), Joan Evans (1893–1977), Jocelyn Brooke (1908–1966), John Addington Symonds (1840-1893), John Beazley (1885–1970), John Betjeman (1906-1984, Bright Young Things), John Bramston (1832–1921), John Collins (1905–1982), John Conington (1825–1869), John Davies Knatchbull Lloyd (1900–1978, Bright Young Things & Hypocrites' Club), John Drake Moore (1924-2006), John Drury-Lowe (1905-1960, Bright Young Things), John Fothergill (1876–1957, Bright Young Things), John Francis Bloxam (1873-1928), John Gambril Nicholson (1866–1931), John Heath-Stubbs (1918–2006), John Henry Newman (1801-1890), John Marshall (1860-1928), John Nigel Richards (1908-1944), John Pope-Hennessy (1913-1994), John Ruskin (1819–1900), John Schlesinger (1926-2003), John Sparrow (1906–1992), John Sutro (1903–1985), John Swinton (1703–1777), John Temple Leader (1810–1903), John Thomas Claridge (1792–1868), John Tylney, 2nd Earl Tylney (1712–1784), John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden (1906–1985), Joseph Hardcastle (1815–1899), Joseph Power (1798–1868), Julia Arnold Huxley (1862-1908), Julie Mullard (1912–1996), Kate Millett (1934–2017), Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929), Kathleen Chesney (1899-1976), Kathleen Courtney (1878–1974), Keith Winter (1906-1983), Kenneth Clark, Baron Clark (1903–1983), Kenneth Kendall (1924–2012), L.P. Hartley (1895–1972, Bright Young Things & Bloomsbury Group), Leigh Ashton (1897–1983), Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989), Leopold, Duke of Albanyy (1853-1884), Lilian Baylis (1874-1937), Lillian Penson (1896–1963), Lindsay Anderson (1923–1994), Lionel Blue (1930-2016), Lionel Johnson (1867–1902), Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946, Bloomsbury Group), Louis MacNeice (1907–1963), Lucile Council (1898-1964), Lucy Burns (1879–1966), Lucy Donnelly (1870–1948), Lyulph Stanley, 7th Baron Sheffield (1915-1971), Marc-André Raffalovich (1864–1934), Margaret Benson (1865–1916), Margaret Haig Thomas, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda (1883–1958), Margaret Jourdain (1876–1951), Margaret Lambert (1906-1995), Margery Fry (1874–1958), Mark Littman (1920-2015), Mark Ogilvie-Grant (1905-1969, Hypocrites' Club & Bright Young Things), Mark Twain (1835–1910), Martin Le Marchant Gosselin (1847-1905), Martin Stevens (1929–1986), Martyn Goff (1923–2015), Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920), Mary Renault (1905-1983), Mary Somerville (1780–1872), Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks (1891–1975), Matthew Arnold (1822–1888), Matthew Bourne (born 1960), Matthew Lewis (1775-1818), Matthew Ponsonby, 2nd Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede (1904–1976, Bright Young Things), Maude Royden (1876-1956), Maundy Gregory (1877–1941), Maurice Bowra (1898-1971), Maurice Oldfield (1915–1981), Michael Benthall (1919–1974), Michael Dillon (1915-1962), Michael Llewelyn Davies (1900-1921, Bloomsbury Group), Michael Montague, Baron Montague of Oxford (1932-1999), Michael Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse (1906–1979), Mildred Pope (1872–1956), Montague Haltrecht (1932–2010), Montague Summers (1880–1948), Mordaunt Shairp (1887–1939), Moses John Jackson (1858–1923), Neal Blewett (born 1933), Ned Sherrin (1931-2007), Nellie Benson (1863-1890), Nicholas Udall (1504-1556), Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (1664–1753), Nigel Nicolson (1917–2004, Bloomsbury Group), Noel Yvri Sandwith (1901-1965), Norman Moor (1851–1895), Norman R. Gale (1862–1942), Norman St John-Stevas (1929-2012), Oleg Kerensky (1930-1993), Olive Stevenson (1930–2013), Olive Willis (1877–1964), Oliver Sacks (1933–2015), Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Parker Lloyd Smith (1902-1931), Patrick Anderson (1915–1979), Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross (1904-1976, Bright Young Things), Paul Dehn (1912-1976), Paul Latham (1905–1955), Paul Walker (1952-1993), Percy Lancelot Osborn (1870-1951), Peter Burra (1909-1937), Peter Glenville (1913-1996), Peter Pears (1910–1986), Peter Quennell (1905–1993), Peter Rodd (1904–1968, Bright Young Things), Peter Warlock (real name Philip Arnold Heseltine, 1894–1930), Peter Watson (1908-1956), Peter Wildeblood (1923–1999), Peter Wilson (1913–1984), Philip Charles Thomson Ritchie (1899-1927, Bloomsbury Group), Philip Morrell (1870–1943, Bloomsbury Group), Philip Sassoon (1888-1939), Philip Sidney (1554-1586), Philip Stanhope Worsley (1835–1866), Philip Trower (1923-2019), Phillipa Foot (1920–2010), Quentin Bell (1910–1996), R.C. Robertson-Glasgow (1901-1965), Robert Cedric (R.C.) Sherriff (1896–1975), R.W. Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969), Ralph Partridge (1894-1960, Bloomsbury Group), Raoul Loveday aka Frederick Charles Loveday (1900-1923, Hypocrites' Club), Raymond Mortimer (1895–1980), Reginald Tiddy (1880–1916), Reginald Turner (1869-1938), Reynolds Price (1933– 2011), Richard Addinsell (1904-1977), Richard Barnfield (1574–1620), Richard Buckle (1916–2001), Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), Richard MacGillivray Dawkins (1871–1955), Richard Pares (1902–1958, Bright Young Things), Richard Plunket Greene (1901-1978, Bright Young Things), Richard Rive (1931–1989), Richard Rumbold (1913-1961), Richard Watson Dixon (1833–1900), Richard West (1716-1742), Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby (1900-1986), Robert Byron (1905–1941, Hypocrites' Club & Bright Young Things), Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset (1587–1645), Robert Flemyng (1912–1995), Robert Graves (1895-1985), Robert Herbert (1831-1905), Robert King, 4th Earl of Kingston (1796-1867), Robert Liddell (1908–1992), Robert Thistlethwayte (1690–1744), Robin Gandy (1919–1995), Roger D. Hansen (1936-1991), Sir Roger Hollis (1905–1973, Hypocrites' Club), Roger Senhouse (1899–1970, Bloomsbury Group), Ronald Eyre (1929–1992), Rose Macaulay (1881–1958), Rose Sidgwick (1877-1918), Roy Harrod (1900–1978), Roy Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead (1920–2003), Rupert Allan (1912-1991), Rupert Buxton (1900-1921), S.E. Cottam (1863–1943), Sacheverell Sitwell (1897-1988, Bright Young Things), Sandy Wilson (1924–2014), Selwyn Image (1849-1930), Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1938-1988), Stanley Addleshaw (1871-1951), Stella Browne (1880–1955), Stephen Spender (1909-1995), Stephen Tomlin (1901–1937, Bloomsbury Group), Stephen Toulmin (1922–2009), Stewart Mitchell (1892–1957), Susan Sontag (1933-2004), Sybil Thorndike (1882–1976), T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935), Terence Greenidge (1902-1970, Hypocrites' Club & Bright Young Things), Terence Rattigan (1911-1977), Theodore R. Sarbin (1911-2005), Thomas Baty (1869–1954), Thomas Bradney Shaw-Hellier (1836-1910), Thomas Legge (1535–1607), Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849), Thomas Painter (1905-1978), Tom Driberg (1905-1976, Hypocrites' Club), Tony Richardson (1928–1991), U.A. Fanthorpe (1929–2009), Vera Brittain (1893–1970), Vera Douie (1894-1979), Vida Dutton Scudder (1861-1954), W.H. Auden (1907-1973), Walter Clemons (1929-1994), Walter Hussey (1909–1985), Walter Pater (1839-1894), Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003), Wilfrid Israel (1899–1943), Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt (1901-1987), William A. Emboden (born 1935), William Acton (1906-1945, Bright Young Things), William Alexander Jackson (1905-1964), William Blake Richmond (1842–1921), William Dickey (1928–1994), William Douglas Home (1912–1992), William Fulford (1831–1882), William Gaskill (1930–2016), William Howard, 8th Earl of Wicklow (1902–1978, Hypocrites' Club), William II of the Netherlands (1792-1849), William Leonard Courtney (1850-1928), William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp (1872-1938), William Lygon, 8th Earl Beauchamp (1903–1979, Hypocrites' Club), William Money Hardinge (1854–1916), William Morris (1834–1896), William Walton (1902-1983, Bright Young Things & Bloomsbury Group), Winifred Holtby (1898–1935), Woldemar Graf Uxkull-Gyllenband (1898-1939).
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