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90 unusual facts about University of London


A Bibliographical Guide to the Law of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man

It was published by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London.

Abu Dhabi University

Abu Dhabi University has affiliations with the following institutions: ENPC MBA Paris, Al Maktoum Institute, Universitat Klinikumbonn, University of Westminster, University of London, and Thunderbird School of Global Management,.

Abubakar Rimi

He obtained a General Certificate of education from the University of London.

Aepyornis

A cast of the Aepyornis egg is preserved at the Grant Museum of Zoology at the University of London.

Alexander Lipmann-Kessel

After the war Kessel became a very successful surgeon based in London, and Emeritus Professor of Orthopaedics at the University of London.

Alfred P. Thorne

During WWII, he completed his extramural studies and earned a B.Com (Honors) from the London School of Economics at the University of London in 1941.

Allan Beckett

He read civil engineering at the University of London and was then apprenticed to Sanders and Forster, steelwork and structural engineers from 1930-33.

Álvaro Pombo

Born in Santander, Cantabria, he studied at the Complutense University of Madrid and received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he lived between 1966 and 1977.

Ammu Swaminathan

Her husband was a distinguished barrister of Madras who studied at Edinburgh and London Universities before obtaining a doctorate in law from the prestigious Harvard University.

Anstey College of Physical Education

Rhoda Anstey stepped down as principal in 1927, after having partially retired in 1920, though she remained a co-director until 1930, in which year the college gained the approval of the University of London to grant accredited diplomas.

Arthur Boyer

Born in Montreal, Canada East, the son of Louis Boyer and Marie-Aurélie Mignault, Boyer studied in Montreal and at the University of London.

Asperoris

NHMUK PV R36615 was discovered by a joint 1963 expedition of the Natural History Museum and the University of London to eastern Zambia and western Tanzania (then northern Rhodesia and Tanganyika, respectively).

Babar Ahmad

Before his imprisonment in August 2004, Ahmad was working in the IT department at Imperial College, University of London.

Basil Helmore

Helmore also edited four legal textbooks and qualified by correspondence for his Bachelor of Law (1933) and PhD (1955) from the University of London.

Betty Sue Flowers

Flowers is a native Texan and graduated from the University of Texas and the University of London.

Carel Weight

He studied at the Hammersmith School of Art and Goldsmiths College.

Charles Henry Hamilton Wright

He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1857, was Bampton lecturer at Oxford in 1878, Donnellan lecturer at Dublin 1880, Grinfield lecturer on the Septuagint at Oxford 1893-97, and vicar of Saint John's, Liverpool, 1891–98, examiner in Hebrew at the University of London 1897-99, at the University of Wales 1897-1901, and clerical superintendent of the Protestant Reformation Society in 1898-1907.

Clive Gillinson

He went to the University of London to study mathematics, but realizing that he wanted to make music his life, entered the Royal Academy of Music, where he gained a Recital Diploma and won the top cello prize.

Cory Collusion Inquiry

Also sitting on the inquiry are academic professor Andrew Coyle from the University of London and the former Bishop of Hereford, the Reverend John Oliver.

Daniele Archibugi

He currently works at the Italian National Research Council in Rome and at Birkbeck, University of London.

Dave Hazard

As a professional instructor Hazard taught a girl called Katy at Goldsmiths College karate club who was known as "Ee-ee" because of her squeaky kiai.

Delia Pemberton

Delia Pemberton (born 1954) is an author and lecturer in Egyptology, formerly with the British Museum and Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.

Demography of the United Kingdom

The UK has some of the top universities in the world with Cambridge, Oxford, London and Edinburgh ranked amongst the top 20 in the 2011 THES - QS World University Rankings.

Donald Tuzin

While studying at the University of London, Tuzin became interested in Sepik cultures and decided to go to the Australian National University's Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), where he worked with the famous and controversial social anthropologist Derek Freeman.

Đurđe Ninković

He graduated from the Belgrade Law School and completed his post-graduate studies at the University of London.

Ed Whitlock

He was the University of London champion at cross country and 3 miles on the track.

Eduardo García de Enterría

Later, he continued his studies at the Universities of London and Jena.

Edward R. Dalglish

He also went on to further postgraduate work at Harvard University, Episcopal Theological Seminary, University of London, and University of Heidelberg.

Eileif Kolsrud

In between he had several study trips and leaves, among others at the University of London.

Elinor Shaffer

Elinor Shaffer FBA is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, honorary reader at University College, London, editor of the Comparative Literature series of Legenda (imprint), and editor of Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe, a book series published by Continuum Books.

EPPI-Centre

The Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre (EPPI-Centre) is part of the Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London.

Epstein–Barr virus

The Epstein–Barr virus is named after Michael Anthony Epstein, a professor emeritus at the University of Bristol, and Yvonne Barr (born 1932 in London), a 1966 Ph.D graduate from the University of London, who together discovered and documented the virus.

F. E. Zeuner

Frederick Everard Zeuner FZS (1905-1963) was a German palaeontologist and geological archaeologist who was a contemporary of Gordon Childe at the Institute of Archaeology of the University of London.

Foster baronets

He was Provost of University College London between 1907 and 1929 and Vice-Chancellor of the University of London between 1928 and 1930.

Francis Darwin

He then went to study medicine at St George's Medical School, London, earning an MB in 1875, but did not practice medicine.

G. L. S. Shackle

Later becoming a teacher, he studied in his own time for a University of London B.A. degree which he took in 1931.

George Karakunnel

He also has a Master's Degree in the Philosophy of Religions from the University of London.

Gomionica Monastery

A silver-gilt cross formerly owned by the monastery, made in 1640, is now in the collection of the University of London, which acquired it from the private collection of Thomas Gambier Parry.

Harington baronets

Sir Charles Robert Harington (1897-1972), son of Reverend Charles Harington, second son of the eleventh Baronet, was Professor of Chemical Pathology at the University of London and Director of the National Institute for Medical Research.

Harold Harper Bennett

He later studied Economics and Political Science at the University of London.

Harry Nkumbula

From Makerere, Nkumbula went on to study for and received a diploma from the Institute of Education, University of London.

Henry Nathan, Jr.

The son of Henry Nathan, Nathan was educated at the London University School and became a wholesale merchant in Victoria, British Columbia.

Hill baronets

Rosalind Mary Theodosia Hill (1907-1977), daughter of the first Baronet, was Professor of History at the University of London.

Jock Marshall

He was Reader in zoology and comparative anatomy at St Bartholomew's Medical College, University of London, 1949–1960, and foundation professor of zoology and comparative physiology, then Dean of Science, at Monash University 1960-1967.

John Crosbie

He undertook postgraduate studies at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London and the London School of Economics in 1956-57 and was called to the Newfoundland Bar in 1957.

Joseph A. Rochford

Most recently, he presented at the Kisubi Brothers University Centre of Uganda’s Martyrs University on collaboration and at the University of London on introducing pre-service teaching into global virtual communities.

KCL

King's College London, a public research university in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the University of London

Lisa Tuttle

Tuttle has taught writing at several institutions, including Clarion West and the Citylit College at London University.

Lotus Mark I

The Lotus Mark I was the first car designed and built by Colin Chapman in 1948, while Chapman was still a student at the University of London.

Mallerstang

The grandson of one of these Quaker families, George Birkbeck, set up the “Mechanics Institute” in London, which later became Birkbeck College of the University of London.

Malone Society

The Society is a registered charity in the United Kingdom and its administrative base is at the University of London's Institute of English Studies.

Marjorie Bean

She attended Wilberforce University (in Ohio), Columbia University's Teachers College (in New York City) and the Institute of Education at the University of London.

Mark d'Inverno

He was awarded a PhD from University College London in Artificial Intelligence and is currently a professor of Computer Science at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Maurice Lebel

In 1932, he received a Diploma in language and English literature and a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1935 from the University of London.

Michael Avi-Yonah

He first studied at Gymnasia Rehavia in Jerusalem, then he went to England and studied history and archeology at the University of London.

Michel Loève

Having survived the Holocaust, after the liberation became between 1944–1946 chief of researches at the Institut Henri Poincaré at Paris University, then until 1948 worked at the University of London.

Mike Pittilo

Pittilo worked in research and education for most of his adult life, holding a number of positions at universities throughout the United Kingdom, notably as Foundation Dean of the Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences at Kingston University and St George's, University of London, and as Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire.

Osvaldo Reig

In 1973 he received his PhD in Zoology and Paleontology from the University of London.

P. Subbarayan

Subbarayan was born on 11 September 1889 in the family estate at Kumaramangalam, Salem district and had his education at Presidency College, Madras, University of Dublin, the University of London and Christ Church, Oxford.

Patricia Gaffney

She earned a bachelor's degree in English and Philosophy from Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York, and also studied literature at the Royal Holloway College at the University of London, at George Washington University, and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Peer Hultberg

He continued his studies of Slavic languages at the University of London and achieved a B.A. in 1963.

Petrine Archer-Straw

Her most recent degrees came from the Courtauld Institute at the University of London, where she earned an M.A. in Art History and Ph. D (Art History Modern, Negrophilia 1994-95).

Polly Swann

As of 2013 she is studying in her spare time for a degree in global health policy at the University of London.

Reading path

According to Kress, a professor of English Education at the University of London, a reading path is the way that the text, or text plus other features, can determine or order the way that we read it.

Regent High School

He became a Fellow, Scholar and gold medallist in Sanitary Science and in Obstetrics at the University of London and received Honours in Physiology, Forensic Medicine and Surgery.

Robert Lethbridge

He then moved to Royal Holloway, University of London to take a Chair in French Language and Literature and was successively Head of Department, Dean of the Graduate School and Vice-Principal.

Roland Michel Tremblay

He studied one year at La Sorbonne in Paris and finished his Master Degree in French Literature at Birkbeck, University of London in 1999.

Rosebud Kurwijila

She holds a Bachelors degree in Agriculture from Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania (1976), Master degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of London (1983) as well as a Master of Philosophy in Development Economics from the University of East Anglia (UK) (1994).

Sanger Brown

In his experiments with E. A. Schäfer at University College, London, in 1886–1887, he was the first to demonstrate conclusively that in monkeys the centre of vision is located in the occipital lobe.

Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan

Born in Hurnamera, a village of District Poonch of Kashmir, Sardar Ibrahim obtained his LLB from the University of London in 1943, and began his practice as a prosecutor in 1943 at Mirpur.

St. George's Hospital Medical School RFC

St. George’s Hospital Medical School RFC was founded in 1863 for the students of the St. George’s Hospital Medical School.

Stephen Henighan

From 1996 to 1998 Henighan taught Latin American literature at Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London.

Suzanne Tremblay

She then completed a certificate in educational studies at the Université de Lyon and a certificate in child care studies at the University of London.

Takashi Ishizeki

A native of Isesaki, Gunma and graduate of Waseda University, he worked at the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications from 1994 to 1998, during which time he studied at the University of London.

The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham

The series was published from 1968 until 1981 by the Athlone Press (the University of London's publishing house); and since 1983 by Oxford University Press under its Clarendon Press imprint.

The Skeptic

Skeptic - A University of London literary magazine in the late 1950s under the editorship of Wen Su-Tung

Tufyal Choudhury

In 1996, Choudhury graduated from School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London with a degree with a BA in Law with Bengali Studies.

University of London Observatory

In 1951, UCL took over management of the Observatory from the University of London, and over the next ten years added library, lecture, and laboratory space.

The Observatory was opened on 8 October 1929 by the then Astronomer Royal Frank Watson Dyson, initially to house the 24-inch reflector from Dr W.E. Wilson's observatory at Daramona, Ireland, which was donated to the University of London after his death.

University of the West Indies cricket team

The university was founded as the University College of the West Indies (UCWI) in 1948, originally serving as a constituent college of the University of London.

Upādāna

Professor Richard F. Gombrich has pointed out in several publications, and in his recent Numata Visiting Professor Lectures at the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), that the literal meaning of upādāna is "fuel".

Victoria County History

Since 1933 the project has been coordinated by the Institute of Historical Research in the University of London.

Viscount Mountmorres

He was the son of James Edward Geoffrey de Montmorency, Quain Professor of Comparative Law at the University of London.

Walter Flowers

In 1957-58, Flowers continued his graduate studies in international law as a fellow at the University of London.

Walter Muir Whitehill

He then went to England where he received a Ph.D. from the University of London.

William Bowring

William S. B. Bowring, born 1949, barrister, human rights activist and professor at Birkbeck, University of London

William Stewart Agras

Agras received his MD from the Middlesex Hospital Medical School now University College of the University of London in 1955.

Winnington baronets

His son Reginald Pepys Winnington-Ingram was Professor of Greek at the University of London.

Winston Saunders

Having attended the Bahamas Teachers’ College, Saunders obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Classics from the University of London in 1964.

Yongle Encyclopedia

Further, there are 41 books of the encyclopedia at the Library of Congress in the United States; 51 books in the United Kingdom held at the British Library, the Bodleian Library in Oxford, the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London, and Cambridge University Library; and 5 books held in various libraries in Germany.


Abdolkarim Soroush

It was after receiving a Masters degree in Analytical Chemistry from University of London that he went to Chelsea College, (a constituent college of the University of London which was merged with two other constituent colleges: Queen Elizabeth College and Kings College in 1985) for studying history and philosophy of science.

Al-ssadiq Al-raddi

Al-ssadiq contributed by recited his poetry in Abu Dhabi International for Book Fair in April 2004.Al-ssadiq has poetry translated to English by The Centre of Poetry Translation CPT, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and the translation had done by Sudanese poet Hafiz Kheir, poet Sarah Maguire and poet Mark Ford.

Arthur Powell Davies

In London, he met George Bernard Shaw, who urged him to go into politics; instead, he chose to attend Richmond Theological College, a Methodist seminary affiliated with the University of London, and to join the Methodist ministry.

Blanc Wan

He is currently working on his PhD project with the renowned cellist and musicologist Alexander Ivashkin at the Research Centre for Russian Music, University of London.

Carolyn McCall

She then gained a Master’s degree in politics from the University of London, and on graduation joined construction group Costain.

Dagmar Berne

She sat the exams of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in 1891 and passed with excellent marks in anatomy and physiology, and proceeded on to the final portion her studies at the University of London.

Dan Sanker

Sanker received an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA, and studied at the University of London, IES in Vienna, and Kansai Gaidai University in Hirakata City, Japan.

English 31

At the age of fifteen/sixteen, pupils are entered for English GCSE which are organised by the Edexcel (University of London).

Harvey N. Middleton

Middleton took short courses for additional training at Harvard University; the University of London, England; the University of Michigan; Indiana University; and Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago.

Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan

He held a number of chairmanships, including the Committee on Finance and Industry in 1929-31, the Canadian Royal Commission on Banking and Currency in 1933, the Pilgrim Trust from 1935–52, the Political Honours Committee from 1935–52, the court of the University of London from 1929–43, and the BBC Advisory Council from 1936-46.

Jerrold Levinson

He has also held visiting appointments in other countries, such as England (University of London and University of Kent), New Zealand (University of Canterbury), France (Université de Rennes), Belgium (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Portugal (Universidade de Lisboa) and Switzerland (Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana).

Kahn Lectures

The next two series of lectures in the series were held in January 1931 by Herbert Joseph Spinden, the expert in pre-Columbian American archaeology who had already been considered twice before, and in the fall of 1931 by Edward Denison Ross, director of (what was still known as) the School of Oriental Studies of the University of London, who talked about Persian art.

Laurence Cecil Bartlett Gower

Laurence Cecil Bartlett Gower MBE (27 January 1913- 25 December 1997), universally known as "LCB Gower" in his writings, was the Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at the University of London and sometime visiting Professor at Harvard University.

Louis George Alexander

A British author of EFL course books, Louis Alexander was born in London and educated at Godalming Grammar School and the University of London, he taught English in Germany (1954–56) and Greece (1956–65) where he was head of English at the Protypon Lykeion, Athens (what is now the Scholi Moraïti).

M. G. S. Narayanan

He held academic positions in MG University, Kottayam and Mangalore University in India and also served abroad in various foreign universities, notable among them being the Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow University, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

Monica Oliphant

She has a Masters Degree in Physics from the University of London and worked for almost 20 years as an Energy Research Scientist in the Electricity Trust of South Australia, but since 2000 has been an independent consultant specialising in residential energy efficiency and renewable energy.

Nelson Chia

Nelson studied at The Chinese High School and Hwa Chong Junior College He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Studies from National University of Singapore and a Master's degree in Theatre Arts (Directing) from Goldsmiths College, University of London.

No. 6 Air Experience Flight RAF

From 26 November 1995 it was parented by London University Air Squadron but when London UAS moved to RAF Wyton, 6 AEF remained at RAF Benson with parenting being taken over by Oxford University Air Squadron, both units being equipped with Grob Tutor T Mk 1s.

Oliver Millar

Millar was educated at Rugby School and the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London, graduating with an Academic Diploma in the History of Art.

Patricia Broadfoot

She spent the following year obtaining a Postgraduate Certificate in Education at the University of London, before beginning her career in education by teaching in Wolmer's Boys High School, Jamaica (1971–73).

R. K. Sinha

Randolph Quirk, Former Vice-Chancellor University of London, It, commemorative volume is a thoroughly worthy objective, for the eminent Professor R K Sinha.

Roger Wingate

Educated at Clifton College, Bristol and the University of London, he took over the Chairmanship of Chesterfield Properties PLC in the mid 1960s.

Veronica Buckley

In 1979 she graduated from the University of Canterbury with first class honours in French with philosophy, and was awarded a postgraduate scholarship in cultural and social history at the University of London.

Zygmunt Szkopiak

Liberated by the British Eighth Army, he and his family received refugee status and were sent to England where he entered the Polish College of the University of London at Battersea, received a doctorate in the physics of metallurgy and joined the staff of Battersea College of Advanced Technology which, in 1968, became the University of Surrey.