EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Durham, England

Founding Date:
1832

Motto:
Fundamenta eius super montibus sanctis

Enrollment:
14,000

Official Website:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Pat Barker	Novelist	8-May-1943		Regeneration
David I. Goulden	Business	c. 1960		CFO of EMC
Gavin Hewitt	Journalist	1951		BBC News Europe Editor
James Holland	Historian	27-Jun-1970		Fortress Malta
Mo Mowlam	Politician	18-Sep-1949	19-Aug-2005	Former Labour MP
Fred Peart	Politician	30-Apr-1914	26-Aug-1988	Leader, House of Commons, 1968-70
Donald J. Pease	Politician	26-Sep-1931	28-Jul-2002	Congressman from Ohio, 1977-93
Earl Pomeroy	Politician	2-Sep-1952		Congressman from North Dakota, 1993-2011
Ernest Raymond	Novelist	31-Dec-1888	14-May-1974	Tell England
Malcolm Sargent	Conductor	29-Apr-1895	3-Oct-1967	Conductor, BBC Symphony, 1950-57
Edward Shortt	Politician	10-Mar-1862	10-Nov-1935	UK Home Secretary, 1919-22
Alison Smithson	Architect	22-Jun-1928	14-Aug-1993	New Brutalist
Peter Denham Smithson	Architect	18-Sep-1923	3-Mar-2003	New Brutalist
James Wilby	Actor	20-Feb-1958		Maurice

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Norman Cohn	Historian	25-Jan-1915	31-Jul-2007	The Pursuit of the Millennium
Lawrence Gowing	Art Historian	21-Apr-1918	5-Feb-1991	Biographer of Vermeer
Norman Haworth	Chemist	19-Mar-1883	19-Mar-1950	Carbohydrates and vitamin C
Raymond Hide	Physicist	17-May-1929		Earth's rotation
Arthur Holmes	Geologist	14-Jan-1890	20-Sep-1965	Father of the geological timescale
Anne W. Orde	Historian	1924	25-Feb-2015	The Eclipse of Great Britain

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Stuart Corbridge	Geographer	11-Apr-1957		Debt and Development
Margot Fonteyn	Dancer	18-May-1919	21-Feb-1991	Exceptional British ballerina
G. M. Trevelyan	Historian	16-Feb-1876	21-Jul-1962	England under Queen Anne

Copyright ©2025