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unusual facts about University Sporting Blue



Dimitri Obolensky

He was educated in Britain at Lynchmere Preparatory School, Eastbourne, and in France at the Lycée Pasteur in Neuilly-sur-Seine, before going up to Cambridge University (Trinity College), where he distinguished himself with a Blue for lawn tennis and graduated in 1940.

Robert Still

At Eton and Oxford he developed an interest in racquet games, winning a Blue and in later life playing real tennis for the Marylebone Cricket Club.

Tom Iremonger

Tom, son of Colonel Harold Iremonger and his wife Julia Quarry, was educated at King's College, Canterbury and Oriel College, Oxford, where he gained a sailing blue, then worked as a district officer in the Colonial Administrative Service in the Western Pacific.


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