of Scotland (1999–2005) Francis Walsingham (King's), Principal Secretary to Elizabeth I of England (1573–1590), "Spymaster" William Whitelaw (Trinity), British Home Secretary (1979–1983) and Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party (1975–1991) William Wilberforce (St John's), slavery abolitionist Roger Williams (Pembroke), founder of Rhode Island, advocate of Native Americans Yeo Bee Yin |Corpus Christi|, Minister of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change (Malaysia) Clergy and spiritual leaders Sri Aurobindo (King's) Richard Bauckham (Clare/Ridley Hall) Edward White Benson (Trinity) William Brewster (Peterhouse) Arthur Buxton (Trinity/Ridley Hall) Donald Coggan (St John's) Frederick Cornwallis (Christ's), Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer (Jesus) Timothy Dudley-Smith (Pembroke/Ridley Hall) Saint John Fisher (Michaelhouse) Sir James George Frazer (Trinity) Edmund Grindal (Christ's), Archbishop of Canterbury Nicky Gumbel (Trinity) Anne Hollinghurst (Hughes Hall), Bishop of Aston Fenton John Anthony Hort (Trinity/Emmanuel) George Joye (Christ's/Peterhouse) Nicky Lee (Trinity) Dick Lucas (Trinity/Ridley Hall) J. B. Lightfoot (Trinity) F. D. Maurice (Trinity/Trinity Hall) Handley Moule (Trinity/Ridley Hall), Bishop of Durham Michael Nazir-Ali (Ridley Hall/Fitzwilliam), Bishop of Rochester Mike Ovey (Ridley Hall/Trinity) Arthur Peacocke (Clare), Templeton Prize winner William Perkins (Christ's), Puritan theologian Sogyal Rinpoche (Trinity) Jonathan Sacks (Caius) Solomon Schechter (unknown) John Sentamu (Selwyn/Ridley Hall) David Sheppard (Trinity Hall/Ridley Hall), Bishop of Liverpool Shimun XXI Eshai (Westcott House) William Robertson Smith (Christ's) John Stott (Trinity/Ridley Hall) Eckhart Tolle (Caius) William Tyndale (unknown) Terry Waite (Trinity Hall) Brooke Foss Westcott (Trinity) Philip William Wheeldon (OBE), Bishop of Whitby and Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman (Clifton/Downing) William Whewell (Trinity) Archbishop John Whitgift (Queens'/Pembroke/Trinity) Roger Williams (Pembroke) Richard Williamson (Clare) Archbishops of Canterbury Thomas Langton (Clare/Pembroke), 1501-1501 Thomas Cranmer (Jesus), 1533-1555 Matthew Parker (Corpus), 1559-1575 Edmund Grindal (Christ's), 1576-1583 John Whitgift (Queen's/Pembroke/Peterhouse), 1583-1604 Richard Bancroft (Christ's/Jesus), 1604-1610 William Sancroft (Emmanuel), 1677-1690 John Tillotson (Clare), 1691-1694 Thomas Tenison (Corpus), 1696-1715 Thomas Herring (Jesus), 1747-1757 Matthew Hutton (Jesus), 1757-1758 Frederick Cornwallis (Christ's), 1768-1783 Charles Manners-Sutton (Emmanuel), 1805-1828 John Bird Sumner (King's), 1848-1862 Edward White Benson (Trinity), 1883-1896 Michael Ramsey (Magdalene), 1961-1974 Donald Coggan (St John's), 1974-1980 Robert Runcie (Trinity Hall), 1980-1991 Rowan Williams (Christ's/Clare), 2002-2012 Justin Welby (Trinity), 2013- Literature Fiction writers A–G Peter Ackroyd (Clare) Douglas Adams (St John's) Sir Kingsley Amis (Peterhouse), Booker Prize winner Mulk Raj Anand (unknown) Kwame Anthony Appiah (Clare) Martin Armstrong (Pembroke) John Bale (Jesus) J. G. Ballard (King's) Catherine Banner (Fitzwilliam) David Benedictus (Churchill) Gregory Benford (Jesus) Sir Walter Besant (Christ's) E. R. Braithwaite (Caius) Howard Brenton (St Catharine's) Anita Brookner