Famous Alumni of the Oxford Colleges

I have picked three famous alumni from each college of the University of Oxford. Use the clues to guess who they are.
Some colleges excluded owing to their alumni being potentially too obscure.
Not including Permanent Private Halls.
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Alumnus
Balliol College
Author of Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
 
Scientist and vehement atheist
Richard Dawkins
 
PM between 1908 and 1916
Herbert Henry Asquith
Brasenose College
PM between 2010 and 2016
David Cameron
 
Author of Lord of the Flies
William Golding
 
Travel writer and Python
Michael Palin
Christ Church
Founder of Pennsylvania
William Penn
 
Author of Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
 
Composer of Crown Imperial
William Walton
Corpus Christi College
Leader of the Labour Party 2010-15
Ed Miliband
 
Brother of the above
David Miliband
 
The last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury
Reginald Pole
Exeter College
First runner of the sub-four-minute mile
Roger Bannister
 
Author of The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
 
Famous for wallpaper designs
William Morris
Hertford College
Author of Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
 
Composer of the Warsaw Concerto
Richard Addinsell
 
Author of Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
Jesus College
Archaeologist and military officer
T.E. Lawrence
 
Icelandic presenter of Mastermind
Magnus Magnusson
 
PM between 1964 and 1970, and 1974-76
Harold Wilson
Keble College
Author of Millions
Frank Cottrell Boyce
 
Tenor and partner of Benjamin Britten
Peter Pears
 
Archbishop of York 1942-1955
Cyril Garbett
Lady Margaret Hall
MP for Maidstone 1987-2010
Ann Widdecombe
 
Former Education Secretary (2010-14)
Michael Gove
 
Food writer and presenter
Nigella Lawson
Lincoln College
Author, real name David Cornwell
John le Carre
 
Clerk of the House of Commons 2011-14
Robert Rogers
 
English composer (1565-1638)
Francis Pilkington
Magdalen College
Author of The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
 
Composer of Phantom, Cats, Joseph etc
Andrew Lloyd Webber
 
King, abdicated in 1936
Edward VIII
Mansfield College
MP for Rhondda since 2001
Chris Bryant
 
Author of In Defense of Food
Michael Pollan
 
Artistic director of London Sinfonia (1988-94)
Paul Crossley
Merton College
Scientist and presenter
Adam Hart-Davis
 
Author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Mark Haddon
 
Poet and playwright (1888-1965)
T.S. Eliot
New College
Comic actor, eg Bridget Jones
Hugh Grant
 
Author of Dream Children
A.N. Wilson
 
Comedian, comedy partner of Gryff Rhys Jones
Mel Smith
Oriel College
Lord Chancellor of Great Britain between 1733 and 1737
Charles Talbot
 
Historian, author of The Origins of the Second World War
A.J.P. Taylor
 
Explorer and tobacco enthusiast
Walter Raleigh
Pembroke College
Deputy PM under John Major
Michael Heseltine
 
Current King of Jordan
Abdullah II
 
Writer whose biography was written by Boswell
Samuel Johnson
The Queen's College
Actor in Mr Bean and Blackadder
Rowan Atkinson
 
King of England and leader at Agincourt
Henry V
 
Inventor of the World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee
St Anne's College
Author of the Bridget Jones books
Helen Fielding
 
Principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic
Simon Rattle
 
Author of Moon Tiger
Penelope Lively
St Catherine's College
Actress in Silent Witness, Merlin etc.
Emilia Fox
 
Author of Catch-22
Joseph Heller
 
Co-creator of "New Labour"
Peter Mandelson
St Edmund Hall
India's Minister of External Affairs
Salman Khurshid
 
Bishop of Calcutta, 1832-58
Daniel Wilson
 
MP for Holborn; formerly Director of Public Prosecutions
Keir Starmer
St Hilda's College
Author of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
 
Author of Quartet in Autumn
Barbara Pym
 
Author of Troy, Ithaka etc
Adele Geras
St Hugh's College
Current UK Prime Minister
Theresa May
 
Author of romantic novels eg A Village Affair
Joanna Trollope
 
Secretary of State for Education, 2014-16
Nicky Morgan
St John's College
PM between 1997 and 2007
Tony Blair
 
Inventor of the horse-drawn seed drill
Jethro Tull
 
Author of The Whitsun Weddings
Philip Larkin
St Peter's College
Writer of the screenplay for Slumdog Millionnaire
Simon Beaufoy
 
First woman bishop appointed by the Church of England
Libby Lane
 
Washington correspondent for the BBC
Ben Wright
Somerville College
Author of The Children's Book
A.S. Byatt
 
First female PM of the UK
Margaret Thatcher
 
First female PM of India
Indira Gandhi
Trinity College
British PM known as "the Elder"
William Pitt
 
Composer of The Banks of Green Willow
George Butterworth
 
Director of final four Harry Potter films
David Yates
University College
PM of the UK from 1945-51
Clement Attlee
 
Author of The Chronicles of Narnia
C.S. Lewis
 
Physicist suffering from ALS
Stephen Hawking
Wadham College
Architect of St Paul's Cathedral
Christopher Wren
 
Author of The Hired Man
Melvyn Bragg
 
Poet and author of We're Going On A Bear Hunt
Michael Rosen
Worcester College
Screenwriter and producer who revived Doctor Who
Russell T. Davies
 
Actress who portrayed Hermione Granger
Emma Watson
 
Author of Watership Down
Richard Adams
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Apr 17, 2017
Excellent quiz.