College arms: "Per pale vert and argent, to the dexter two keys in saltire or surmounted by a triple towered castle argent masoned sable (representing Oxford Bailey) and on the sinister a cross gules surmounted by a mitre or between four martlets sable (for Chavasse), the whole within a bordure or"
ST PETER'S COLLEGE began in 1929 as St Peter's Hall, a permanent Private Hall founded by the Right Revd Francis James Chavasse, DD, Hon. Fellow of Corpus Christi College, formerly Bishop of Liverpool and sometime Principal of Wycliffe Hall and Rector of St Peter-le-Bailey. The Hall was in effect an outgrowth of the latter parish whose history goes back to 1122 at least: its first three Masters - the first was the Founder's son, Christopher Maude Chavasse, later Bishop of Rochester - were the last three rectors of the historic parish before diocesan reorganization took the latter into union with St Ebbe's; and church and rectory became the nucleus of the College as chapel and lodge and library, with as its hall the only remaining building of the adjacent New Inn Hall, founded by William of Wykeham as an annex of his New College in 1392. (New Inn Hall, where Alberto Gentili developed the new field of public international law in the sixteenth century, and its Principal Sir William Blackstone wrote his Commentary on the Laws of England in the eighteenth, merged with Balliol in 1887; its name was by a generous act of Balliol restored to its original site in 1992.)
In October 1947 St Peter's Hall was admitted to the privileges of a New Foundation and in November 1961 it became a full college. The University Statute of 7 February 1961 conferring this status took effect on 22 November, when a royal charter of incorporation was granted. The corporate designation of the College is 'The Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College of St Peter-le-Bailey in the University of Oxford'. The government of the College is vested in the Master and Fellows, but the Trustees appoint the Visitor. By the charter, as by the trust deeds of the Original Hall, the primary objects and principles of the College are to maintain and promote education, religion, and learning generally, and especially to assist students of limited means, to encourage candidates for Holy Orders and missionary work abroad and to diffuse sound information and teaching of and in Christian Principles and doctrine and particularly the Protestant and reformed teaching of the Church of England.
The College offers organ and choral scholarships at entrance and instrumental scholarships to undergraduates after entry. It awards scholarships and prizes for distguished performance in University examinations, including the Carl Albert award for the most meritorious performance in the final Honour Schools, and a number of scholarships for graduate students among which the Bodossaki and Gustav Born scholarships in Medicine and Life Sciences are available to new entrants. There are also prizes and travelling awards donated by, and in memory of, former Fellows of the College.
In addition to its tuition of undergraduates and graduates, the College maintains the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, for the study of intellectual property law in the context of economics and business.
In the following lists, the symbol
* after a person's name indicates that he or she is also a Fellow or Honorary Fellow of another college.
+ indicates the holder of a University or CUF post.
~ indicates the holder of a statutory professorship or readership.
Visitor Bennetts, The Rt Revd Colin James, MA (MA Camb.), Lord Bishop of Coventry
Trustees
Lomas, Harold Herbert, MA
Caine, Charles Allan, MA, D.Phil.
Reeves, The Most Reverend Sir Paul Alfred, GCMG, GCVO, QSO, MA, Hon. DCL
(MA New Zealand, Hon. LL.D. Vict., N.Z., Hon. DD Gen. Theol. Sem. NY, Hon. Dr. Edin.)
Hodgson, Robert Granville, The Rt Hon. Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, CBE, MA
Master
Silverman, Bernard Walter, MA, D.Phil., D.Sc. (B.Th. S'ton; MA, Ph.D., Sc.D. Camb.), FRS Professor of Statistics
Fellows
Southworth, Eric Alan, MA (MA Camb.) + Tutor in Spanish
Williams, Gavin Peter, MA, M.Phil. (BA Stellenbosch) + Tutor in Politics and Sociology
Bithell, John Francis, MA, D.Phil. + Tutor in Statistics and Vice-Master
Greenhalgh, Christine Anne (Mrs), MA (M.Sc. Lond.; Ph.D. Princeton) + TEPCO Fellow and Tutor in Economics, Reader in Economics
Hoad, Terence Frederick, MA + Tutor in English Language and Medieval Literature
Teddy, Peter Julian, BM, B.Ch., MA status, D.Phil., FRCS + Senior Research Fellow
Turnbull, Stuart Robert, MA (B.Sc., Ph.D. Newc.) + Robin Herd Fellow and Tutor in Engineering Science
Swyngedouw, Erik Achille Marie, MA (BA, MA Leuven; Ph.D. Johns Hopkins) + Tutor in Geography, Reader in Geography
Addison. Kenneth, MA, D.Phil. Supernumerary Fellow and Lecturer in Physical Geography
Hunt, Anthony Blair, B.Litt., MA (D.Litt. St. And.), FBA, FSA + Besse Fellow and Tutor in French
Hesselbo, Stephen Peter. MA (B.Sc. Aberd.; Ph.D. Brist.) + Perenco Fellow and Tutor in Earth Sciences
Goldman, Lawrence Neil. MA (MA, Ph.D. Camb.), F.R.Hist.S. + Tutor in Modern History, and Senior Dean
Moloney, Mark Gerard. MA (B.Sc., Ph.D. Svdney) + E. P. Abraham Fellow and
Tutor in Chemistry, Tutor for Graduates
Ripley, Brian David, MA. D.Phil. (MA. Ph.D. Camb.) ~ Professorial Fellow,
Professor of Statistics
Foot, Christopher John, MA. D.Phil. + Tutor in Physics, Professor of Physics
Dorkins, Huw Richard, MA, BM, B.Ch., MRCPath., MRCP E. P. Abraham Fellow
and Tutor in Medicine, Computer Curator
Sim, Edith, MA, D.Phil. (B.Sc. Edin.) + Tutor in Biochemistry, Professor of Pharmacology
Remedios, John Joseph, MA status, D.Phil. Research Fellow in Environmental Sciences
Sprague, Kenneth James (BA. M.Sc. Syracuse) Supernumerary Fellow
Jones, The Revd Christopher Mark, MA, Dip.Theol. (M.Phil. Camb.) Chaplain, St Augustine Fellow and Tutor in Theology, Senior Welfare Adviser
Mason, Lionel Jeremy, MA, D.Phil. + Tutor in Mathematics, Reader in Mathematics
Joyce, Paul Michael, MA, D.Phil. + Tutor in Theology
Rawlings, Steven Gregory, MA, D.Phil. (MA, Ph.D. Camb.) + Tutor in Physics, Reader in Physics
Bound, Mensun, MA status (BA Fairleigh-Dickinson, MA Rutgers) + Triton Senior Research Fellow in Marine Archaeology
Clark, Gordon Leslie, MA, D.Sc. (B.Econ., M.Arts Monash; Ph.D. McMaster) ~
Professorial Fellow, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography
Hilliard, Kevin Foster, MA, D.Phil. + Tutor in German and Senior Tutor
Daukes, Brigadier Clendon Douglas, MA (BA Open) Bursar
Leyser, Henrietta (Mrs), B.Litt., MA Tutor for Undergraduate Admissions and for International Students, Senior Welfare Adviser
Earle, Thomas Foster, MA, D.Phil. *~ Professorial Fellow, King John II Professor of Portuguese Studies
Vaver, David, MA (BA, LL B Auckland; JD Chicago) ~ Professorial Fellow, Reuters Professor of Intellectual Property and IT Law
Whittow, Mark, MA, D.Phil. + Tutor in Modern History and Fellow Librarian
Newman, Jonathan Adam, MA (BA, Ph.D. Albany) + Cephalosporin Fellow and Tutor in Biological Sciences
Pitkethly, Robert Hamilton, MA, D.Phil. (MBA INSEAD; M.Sc. Stirling) + Tutor in Management
Redgwell, Catherine Jean (BA Winnipeg, LL B UBC; M.Sc. LSE) + Yamani Fellow and Tutor in Law, Reader in Public International Law
Russell, Graham, DM (MB, Ch.B., MA Camb.; Ph.D. Leeds), FRCP, F.R.C.Path ~
Professorial Fellow, Norman Collinson Professor of Musculo-Skeletal Science
Lakin, Nicholas David, MA (B.Sc. Nottingham: Ph.D. Warwick) + Tutor in Biochemistry
Williams, Abigail, MA, M.Phil., D.Phil. + Lord White Fellow and Tutor in English
Brown, Matthew Arthur (MB, BS Sydney; MD New South Wales), FRACP ~
Senior Research Fellow in Medicine and O'Connor Fellow, Clinical Reader in Musculo-Skeletal Science
Mawson, Timothy James, MA, M.Phil., D.Phil. Supernumerary Fellow and Lecturer in Philosophy
Mayer, Hartmut, D.Phil. (MA Tufts; M.Phil. Camb.) Supernumerary Fellow and Lecturer in Politics
Taillefer, Rachel (Ph.D. Montpellier II) Junior Research Fellow in Mathematics
Antonini, Massimo (Laurea Econ. Politica, Venice; MA Middx.) Supernumerary Fellow and Lecturer in Economics
Kehoe, Sean, MA (MD Dub.), DCH, MRCOG Professor of Gynaecological
Cancer ~
Schnupp, Jan Wilbert Hendrick, MA, D.Phil. (B.Sc. Lond.; Dip. Math. Open) + Cephalosporin Fellow and Tutor in Medicine
McFarlane, Ben, BCL, MA + Tutor in Law
B1air, Kirstie, M.Phil., D.Phil. (MA Camb.) + Supernumerary Fellow and Lecturer in English
Demetriou, Olga (B.Sc., Ph.D. Lond.) Democracy 2500 Fellow in Aegean Studies
Dean of Degrees
Warner, Francis Robert Le Plastrier, MA, D.Litt. (MA Camb.)
Director of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre
Vaver, David, MA (BA. LL B Auckland; J D Chicago) ~
Director of Music
Allen, Roger. D. Phil. (BA, B.Mus. Liv.)
Emeritus Fellows
Vernede, Raymond Veveysan, MA
Bailey, Arthur Sydney, B.Sc., MA, D.Phil.
Burchfield, Robert William, CBE, MA (MA New Zealand; Hon. D.Litt. Liv., Vict. NZ)
Wernberg-Moller, Preben Christian Heiberg, MA, D.Phil. +
Armitage, Peter, CBE, MA (MA Camb.; Ph.D. Lond.) +
Woodgate, Gordon Kemble, MA, D. Phil., JP
Reading, Harold Garner, MA (Ph.D. Durh.)
Caine, Charles Allan, MA, D.Phil.
McKay, Gilbert Watt, N4A (MA Aberd.)
Watson, Revd William Lysander Rowan, MA (MA Dub.; MA Camb.)
Coe, Malcolm James, MA (B.Sc., Ph.D. Lond.)
Sanderson, Charles Denis, MA
Mayr-Harting, Henry Maria Robert Egmont, MA, D.Phil., FBA
Williams, Vivian, MA (BA Wales; Ph.D. Lond.)
Hayward, Peter Allan, MA (MA Camb.)
Warner, Francis Robert Le Plastrier, MA (MA Camb.)
Marson, Richard Benjamin, MA
O'Connor, John Joseph, MA, D.Phil. (BE NUI; Ph.D. Camb.)
Twyeross, Robert Geoffrey, MA, DM. FRCP
Kenyon, John David, MA, D.Phil. (MA, Ph.D. Camb.)
Newell, Peter Copeman, MA, D.Phil. D.SC.
Honorary Fellows
Matthews, Percy
Born, Gustav Victor Rudolf, MA, D.Phil. (MB, Ch.B. Edin.; Hon. D.Sc. Bordeaux, Paris, Loyola, Chicago; Hon. MD Miinster, Leuven, Edin., Brown, Providence, Rhode Is., Munich), FRS, FRCP, FKC
Latner, Albert J.
Reeves, The Most Revd Sir Paul Alfred, GCMG, GCVO, QSO, MA, Hon. DCL (MA New Zealand, Hon. LL D. Vict., NZ; Hon. DD Gen.Theol. Sem. NY; Hon. Dr. Edin.)
Herd, Robert (Robin) John, CBE, MA
Bloomfield, Sir Kenneth Percy, KCB, MA (Hon. LL D Belfast; Hon D.Univ. Open, Hon. D.Litt. Ulster)
Weldon, Anthony Henry David, FRCM
Gavron, Robert Israel, The Rt Hon. Lord Gavron, CBE, MA, Hon. FRCA
Dormand, John Donkin, The Rt Hon. Lord Dormand of Easington, MA
Foy, Peter, MA
Hollis, Anthony Barnard, The Hon. Sir, QC, MA
Kogelnik, Herwig Werner, D.Pliii. (Dip.Ing., Dr. Tech. Vienna)
Weidenfeld, Sir (Arthur) George, The Rt Hon. Lord Weidenfeld, Kt. (Hon. Ph.D Ben Gurion, Hon. D.Litt. Exe.)
Condon, Sir Paul Leslie, The Rt Hon. Lord Condon, KBE. QPM, DL, MA
Angel, James Roger Prior, MA, D.Phil., FRS, FRAS
Loach, Kenneth Charles, MA
Nicholson, The Revd Professor Ernest Wilson, DD, FBA * (MA Dub.; Ph.D. Glas.; BD, DD Camb.)
Hanson, Sir James Edward, The Rt Hon. Lord Hanson (Hon. LL D. Leeds), FRSA, CBM
Sheppard, David Stuart. The Rt Revd and Rt Hon. Lord Sheppard of Liverpool (MA, Hon. DD Camb.; Hon. LL D Liv.)
Jacob, Sir Robert Raphael Hayim, The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Jacob (MA Camb.;
LL B Lond.)
Lau, William W.
Yamani, HE Sheikh Ahmed Zaki (BA Cairo; MA New York; MA Harvard)
Mackerras, Sir Charles, CH, AC, CBE, Hon. D.Mus. (Hon.D.Mus. Hull, York,
Nott., Brisbane)
Godfray, Professor Hugh Charles, MA (Ph.D. Lond.), FRS
Hodgson, Robert Granville, The Rt Hon. Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, CBE,
MA
Eastwood, David Stephen, MA, D.Phil., ER.Hist.S.
Dorfman, Lloyd
Befl, Graham Arthur Charlton, MA, D.Phil., FRSC, FLS
Cairncross, Frances Anne, MA (MA Econ. Brown Univ., Rhode Is. USA)
Fiddes, The Revd Paul Stuart, MA, D. Phil.
Lecturers
Ellory, John Clive, MA (B.Sc. Brist.; Ph.D. Camb. *+ Physiology
Clark, Carol Elizabeth (Mrs), MA (Ph.D. Lond.) *+ French
Gunn, Steven John, MA, D.Phil. *+ Modern History
Cooper, Clara (Mrs) (Dott. Lett. Turin) Italian
Hancock, Graham, MA (MA Dub.; Ph.D. Camb.) *+ Physical Chemistry
Egdell, Russell George, MA, D.Phil. *+ Inorganic Chemistry
Mackridge, Peter Alexander, MA, D.Phil. *+ Modern Greek
Farrant, Timothy John, MA, D.Phil. *+ French
Parkinson, Stephen Robert, MA (MA, Ph.D., Camb.) Portuguese
Juskaitis, Rimas (Ph.D. Moscow) Engineering Science
Hirschon, Renee, D.Phil. (BA Cape Town) Anthropology
Baines, Jennifer, MA, D.Phil. Russian
Hruda, Karel, BA Computation
Lauro-Taroni, Laura (Dott. Fis. Genoa) Physics
Edwards, Cyril, MA, D.Phil. German
Nixon, Lucia (MA British Columbia; M.Museol. Toronto) Archaeology
Seghers, Benoni Hendrik, MA Status (B.Sc., Ph.D. British Columbia Biological Sciences
Dorigatti, Marco, D.Phil. (Dott. Lett. Florence) Italian
Allen, Roger, D.Phil. (BA, B.Mus. Liverpool) Music
Allen, Sophie Rebecca (MA Glas.; Ph.D. Lond.) Philosophy
Kelly, Richard, MA Law
Morrison, Zoe, D.Phil. (BA Adelaide) Geography
Scataglini Belghitar, Giovanna (Laurea, Trieste) Mathematics
Dean Ashbourn, Joanna Maria Antonia, MA (MA Camb.; Ph.D. South Bank, Lond.), ERAS, FRSA, C. Phys., M. Inst.P., MILTHE
College Secretary and Registrar Henley, Olivia Rosalyn (BA Brist.)
Librarian Johnson, David Paul, D.Phil. (BA Nott.; MA Lond.)
Accountant Haward, Penelope Anne (B.Sc. Herts.; M.Sc. Lond.), ACCA