Beetham, Professor of Politics at the University of Leeds Isaiah Berlin, historian of ideas, Oxonian professor George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India and British Foreign Secretary Emma Dench, British ancient historian, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University Peter Geach, British analytic philosopher, Professor of Logic at the University of Leeds, husband of G E M Anscombe (above) John Murray Gibbon, Canadian writer Barbara Hammond, English social historian, first woman to take a double first R. M. Hare, English moral philosopher, Oxonian professor H. L. A. Hart, British legal philosopher Denis Healey, Labour politician Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet Alfred Edward Housman, English classical scholar and poet (failed in finals) Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2019-22) Ronald Knox, Catholic priest, theologian, writer and apologist Anthony Leggett, theoretical physicist and winner of Nobel Prize in Physics C.S. Lewis, novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, and Christian apologist Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1957-63), read mods (Latin and Greek), the first half of the four-year Oxford greats course, at Balliol from 1912 to 1914. He left to serve in the First World War and never returned to complete his degree. Reginald Maudling, Conservative politician Iris Murdoch DBE, novelist and philosopher Charles Prestwich Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian daily newspaper (now The Guardian) Katherine Parkinson, English actress Peter Snow CBE, British television and radio presenter, historian Reginald Edward Stubbs, British colonial governor Ronald Syme, New Zealand-born historian and classicist Oscar Wilde, Irish writer and poet, attained a double first Bernard Williams, British moral philosopher, attained a double first with formal congratulations in the second part Emily Wilson, British classicist, first woman to publish a translation of Homer's Odyssey into English. N. T. Wright, British Anglican bishop and academic Yang Xianyi, translator of Dream of the Red Chamber into English See also Philosophy, politics and economics Quadrivium Trivium References External links Academic courses at the University of Oxford Classical studies Terminology of the University of Oxford