Editing Lincoln College, Oxford (section)

==People associated with Lincoln==
{{main|List of people associated with Lincoln College, Oxford|List of Honorary Fellows of Lincoln College, Oxford}}
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File:Sir Edmund Anderson from NPG.jpg|[[Edmund Anderson (judge)|Sir Edmund Anderson]], Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
File:Nathaniel Crew, 3rd Baron Crew from NPG.jpg| [[Bishop of Oxford]], [[Bishop of Durham]], Rector of Lincoln College
File:Peter Durack(1948).jpg|[[Peter Durack]], former [[Attorney-General of Australia]]
File:Howard Walter Florey 1945.jpg|[[Howard Florey|Lord Florey]], Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist and physiologist
File:John le Carre.jpg|[[John le Carré]], author
File:DavidLewis1944.jpg|[[David Lewis (Canadian politician)|David Lewis]], former leader of the [[New Democratic Party]]
File:Rachel Maddow in Seattle cropped.png|[[Rachel Maddow]], television host
File:Emily Mortimer 2011 Shankbone.JPG|[[Emily Mortimer]], actress and screenwriter
File:John Radcliffe.jpg|[[John Radcliffe (physician)|John Radcliffe]], physician
File:Ted Geisel NYWTS 2 crop.jpg|[[Dr. Seuss]], author and illustrator
File:Official Portrait of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (cropped).jpg|[[Rishi Sunak]], former [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]
File:Edward Thomas.jpg|[[Edward Thomas (poet)|Edward Thomas]], poet killed in action during the First World War
File:Egon Wellesz (1885–1974) 1927 © Georg Fayer (1892–1950).jpg|[[Egon Wellesz]],  composer, teacher, and musicologist
File:John Wesley. Mezzotint by J. Faber, junior, 1743, after J. Wellcome L0008198.jpg|[[John Wesley]], cleric and theologian
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Notable former students of the college have progressed to careers in academia, business, politics and sports. Alumni include; [[Philip May]] (husband of former Prime Minister [[Theresa May]]), [[Steph Cook]] (Olympic gold medalist), [[William Davenant]] (poet), [[J. A. Hobson|John Hobson]] (economist and influential theorist of imperialism), [[John le Carré]] (author), [[Rachel Maddow]] (political commentator and author), [[Dr. Seuss]] (author and illustrator), [[Rishi Sunak]] (British [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]]), [[Adebayo Ogunlesi]] (lawyer and investment banker) and [[Edward Thomas (poet)|Edward Thomas]] (poet). Between 1998 and 2002, five future Parliamentarians studied at Lincoln at overlapping times: MPs  [[Rishi Sunak]], [[Lee Rowley]], [[Miatta Fahnbulleh (politician)|Miatta Fahnbulleh]], [[Shabana Mahmood]] and life peer [[Charles Banner]]. [[Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant|Princess Elisabeth of Belgium]], heir apparent to [[Philippe of Belgium|King Philippe]], started to read history and politics in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hola.com/us/royals/20211004g2z5ssqdg9/princess-elisabeth-belgium-starts-school-oxford/|title = Princess begins studies at university in England|date = 4 October 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Belgian Royal Family park on pavements at Oxford University |url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24480231.belgian-royal-family-park-pavements-oxford-university-graduation/ |website=www.oxfordmail.co.uk}}</ref>

Past fellows include [[John Radcliffe (physician)|John Radcliffe]] (physician after whom the [[Radcliffe Camera]], [[Radcliffe Infirmary]], [[Radcliffe Observatory]] and [[John Radcliffe Hospital]] are named), [[Howard Florey]] (awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] in 1945 for his role in large scale production of [[penicillin]]), [[Edward Abraham]] and [[Norman Heatley]] (biochemists also instrumental in the development of penicillin)[[Nevil Sidgwick]] (chemist) and [[John Wesley]] (theologian).

Lincoln was the first college in Oxford (or Cambridge) to admit a Jewish Fellow, the Australian-born [[philosopher]] [[Samuel Alexander]] (appointed 1882).<ref>John Laird, ‘[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30372 Alexander, Samuel (1859–1938)]’, rev. Michael A. Weinstein, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, Retrieved 2 March 2009</ref>

In 1955, [[Paul Shuffrey]], the civil servant and editor, and a former Lincoln student, endowed a fellowship in memory of his father, the leading architect and architectural designer, [[Leonard Shuffrey]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Lincoln College Oxford Annual Report 2018 |url=https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=2&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&p_p_resource_id=%2Faccounts-resource&p_p_cacheability=cacheLevelPage&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_objectiveId=A10161512&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_priv_r_p_mvcRenderCommandName=%2Ffull-print&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_priv_r_p_organisationNumber=3994726 |website=Charity Commission |access-date=18 November 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Shuffrey |first1=Margaret |title=Notes on the Shuffrey Family |date=1985 |page=86}}</ref>

===Rectors===
Novelist and Lincoln graduate [[John le Carré]], himself a one-time spy, revealed that fictional spymaster [[George Smiley]] was partly modelled on former Lincoln rector [[Vivian H. H. Green]]. At least one other recent Lincoln Rector, Sir [[Maurice Shock]], enjoyed a prior career in British intelligence, although there is little evidence to substantiate the college's reputation as a recruiting ground for spies.<ref>Paul Langford, ‘[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/94873 Green, Vivian Hubert Howard (1915–2005)]’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edition, Oxford University Press, January 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2009</ref>

From 1954 to 1972, the Rector of the college was [[Walter Fraser Oakeshott]], most famous for discovering the [[Winchester Manuscript]] of [[Sir Thomas Malory]]'s [[Le Morte d'Arthur]] in 1934 while an Assistant Master at [[Winchester College]]. Lincoln College's largest performance space is named after him.

The academic [[Mark Pattison (academic)|Mark Pattison]] was elected as Rector of the college in 1861 and is thought to have been the inspiration for the character of Dr. Casaubon in [[George Eliot]]'s novel [[Middlemarch]].

The current Rector is [[Nigel Clifford]] who assumed the position in 2024.