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unusual facts about The University of Oxford



John Hedley Brooke

He was Gifford Lecturer at the University of Glasgow from 1995–96 and Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at The University of Oxford from 1999–2006, where he directed the Ian Ramsey Centre and was a Fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford.

Khan Abdul Ali Khan

Born into a political family, Abdul Ali Khan was the youngest son of Bacha Khan, he remained apolitical his whole life and completed his Bachelors degree from Peshawar University, before travelling to England to complete his postgraduate studies from the University of Oxford.


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Andrew Hamilton

Andrew D. Hamilton (born 1952), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford

Arthur West Haddan

In 1847 Haddan was one of the secretaries of William Ewart Gladstone's election committee, and supported him on the three other occasions when he sought election as a Member of Parliament for the University of Oxford; his support.

Bate Collection of Musical Instruments

The collection is named after Philip Bate who gave his collection of musical instruments to the University of Oxford in 1968, on the condition that it was used for teaching and was provided with a specialist curator to care for and lecture on it.

Carl Joachim Classen

He attained the B. Litt. at the University of Oxford in 1956 and worked as a lecturer of classics at the University of Ibadan for three years.

Cowbridge Grammar School

Evan Evans (1813–1891) — Master of Pembroke College; Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford

Frank Cross

Frank Leslie Cross (1900–1968), professor of divinity at the University of Oxford

Freedom of Information requests to the Climatic Research Unit

Jonathan A. Jones of the University of Oxford and Don Keiller of Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge made FOIA requests for the data that Jones had sent to Webster.

George Radda

Currently, Sir George is the new head of the merged departments of Physiology and Human Anatomy and Genetics at the University of Oxford and Chairman of the Singapore Bioimaging Consortium, a research institute of ASTAR in Singapore.

Graduate Theological Foundation

The Rev’d Andrew Linzey, Bergh Professor of Animal Ethics; also a Faculty of Theology member at the University of Oxford and director, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.

HCBC

Hertford College Boat Club, a rowing club at the University of Oxford, England

Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby

On 12 March 1622 he conveyed to the university of Oxford five acres of land, opposite Magdalen College, which had formerly served as a Jewish cemetery, for the encouragement of the study of physic and botany.

Mess of pottage

Terry Pratchett has his character Sergeant Colon say this in Feet of Clay, after Nobby of the Watch has guessed that the phrase is “a spot of massage.” Theodore Sturgeon had one of his characters say this about H. G. Wells in his 1948 short story Unite and Conquer; but Roger Lancelyn Green (in 1962) ascribed it to Professor Nevill Coghill, Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford.

Norrington

Norrington Table, an annual ranking that lists the colleges of the University of Oxford in order of the performance of their undergraduate students on that year's final examinations

OUBS

Oxford University Broadcasting Society, a student society at the University of Oxford, England

Patrick Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding

His grandfather, Frewen, was the first Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford from 1908 in the newly created Department of Engineering Science, and the namesake of the Jenkin Building at Oxford.

Rules and Meanings

Part Six, "Interpenetration of Meanings", provides an excerpt from D. R. Venables and R. E. Clifford, Academic Dress of the University of Oxford (1957), as well as from Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), from an anonymous 19th-century etiquette manual (1872), from Lucy Grace Allen's Table Service (1915), and from the 7th edition of Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described (1943) by Adrian Fortescue and John Berthram O'Connell.

St. Edmund's College

St Edmund Hall, Oxford, a constituent college of the University of Oxford

St. Irvyne

Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian, A Romance is a Gothic horror novel written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1810 and published by John Joseph Stockdale in 1811 in London anonymously as "by a Gentleman of the University of Oxford".

Teddy Hall

The nickname of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford

Theodore Besterman

Following Besterman’s death on 10 November 1976, the Voltaire Foundation was vested permanently in the University of Oxford.

Tonman Mosley, 1st Baron Anslow

He was educated at Repton School, Repton, Derbyshire, between 1862 and 1868, and at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, between 1868 and 1971 and graduated from the University of Oxford in 1872 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

University Press

Oxford University Press, the publishing house of the University of Oxford

Wheare

Degory Wheare (1573–1647), historian, the first Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford

William Jane

He shortly changed his opinion about passive obedience, and when James II's cause was hopeless, Jane sought William of Orange at Hungerford, and assured him of the support of the university of Oxford, hinting at his willingness to accept the vacant bishopric of Oxford.