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10 unusual facts about University of Oxford


Alexander Ewing

In 1851 he received the degree of D.C.L. from the University of Oxford.

Amikam Aharoni

In 1971-1972, 1977–1978, and 1992 he was a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Metallurgy at the University of Oxford.

BTEC Extended Diploma

However, as it is mostly coursework based some of the more acclaimed universities such as the University of Cambridge or the University of Oxford will not accept it as a standalone qualification (unless combined with more traditional qualifications such as A-levels).

Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo

Dr Balakrishnar Manivannan, FRCP - Consultant Physician, National Health Service and Senior Clinical Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oxford

Hazel Hawke

Hawke acted as a prominent pro-choice advocate in Australia, often drawing on her personal experience of having an illegal abortion in 1952 so that her future husband Bob Hawke could further his education at the University of Oxford.

Maltravers Herald Extraordinary

The current Maltravers Herald of Arms Extraordinary is former Fitzalan Pursuivant John Martin Robinson, MA (St Andrews) DPhil (Oxford) FSA.

Manciple

The title still survives in some Oxford and Cambridge colleges, at the Charterhouse in the City of London, and in the name of Manciple Street in the borough of Southwark, London SE1.

Michael Proffitt

Raised in Edinburgh, Proffitt attend the University of Oxford, where he studied English language and literature.

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.

Sfakia

The archeology and history of Sfakia is the object of a field survey undertaken by the University of Oxford.


Andy Cato

Cato was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, an independent school for boys in Wakefield, followed by the University of Oxford (Merton College), where he studied history.

Anne Armstrong

She also served on the board of non profit organizations such as Center for Strategic and International Studies and was a member of the Founding Council of the Rothermere American Institute, and the University of Oxford.

Carol V. Robinson

She is a Royal Society Research Professor at the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Oxford, as well as the Dr. Lee's Professor of Chemistry-elect.

Cecil Howard Green

With his wife Ida Green, he was a philanthropist who helped found the University of Texas at Dallas, Green College at the University of British Columbia, St. Mark's School of Texas, and Green College at the University of Oxford.

Charles Knickerbocker Harley

The Arthur H. Cole Prize for the outstanding article in the Journal of Economic History, Sept. 1981-June 1982 for “British Industrialization Before 1841.He is a Professor of Economic History and an Emeritus Fellow at St Antony's College both at the University of Oxford.

Colin McGinn

He has held teaching posts and professorships at University College London, the University of Oxford, Rutgers University, and the University of Miami.

Constant Mews

He carried out doctoral study at the University of Oxford, followed by five years (1980–1985) teaching British civilisation at the Universite de Paris III, while pursuing studies in medieval thought (focusing on Peter Abelard) in connection with Jean Jolivet, at the École pratique des hautes études en sciences religieuses.

D. A. Clarke-Smith

He was educated at the University of Oxford, studying law and voice culture, and while there joined the Oxford University Dramatic Society.

Edward Pococke

At this time William Laud was both Bishop of London and chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Pococke was recognised as one who could help his schemes for enriching the university.

Farnham, Dorset

Following his donation of some 20,000 antiquities to the University of Oxford in 1884, forming the nucleus of the Pitt Rivers Museum, he continued to collect archaeological and ethnological specimens for his personal collection at Tollard Farnham, about a half-mile from Farnham village centre.

FIBA European Champions Cup and Euroleague history

Bradley, who was studying at Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, took advantage of his year in Europe, to give decisive help to Milano.

Genetically modified mouse

In 1981 the laboratories of Frank Ruddle from Yale, Frank Constantini and Elizabeth Lacy from Oxford, and Ralph Brinster and Richard Palmiter in collaboration from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Washington injected purified DNA into a single-cell mouse embryo utilizing techniques developed by Brinster in the 1960s and 1970s, showing transmission of the genetic material to subsequent generations.

Gerald Cohen

Born into a communist family in Montreal, Cohen was educated at McGill University, Canada (BA, philosophy and political science) and the University of Oxford (BPhil, philosophy) where he studied under Isaiah Berlin and Gilbert Ryle.

Henrietta Louisa Fermor

His statues, which had been part of the Arundelian collection, and had been purchased by his grandfather, were bought by his mother for presentation to the university of Oxford.

Himani Dalmia

She graduated with honours in English from St. Stephen's College and holds a Master's in South Asian Studies from the University of Oxford.

Jan Westerhoff

He was previously a Research Fellow in Philosophy at the City University of New York, a Seminar Associate at Columbia University, a Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College and a Junior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.

Janusz Kochanowski

During his academic career, Kochanowski was several times Visiting Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute für Ausländisches und Internationales Strafrecht in Freiburg, the University of Augsburg, Jesus College at the University of Oxford, numerous colleges at the University of Cambridge, including Wolfson College, Robinson College, where he became elected senior member, Clare Hall, where he became a life member, and Peterhouse College.

John Risman

Bev is father to another John Risman, who was the first open double Blue, achieved his double (Dark) Blue while at the University of Oxford, in the both the Rugby Union Varsity, and the 1984 Rugby League Varsity Matches.

Joseph Priestley and Dissent

Between 1660 and 1665, Parliament passed a series of laws that restricted the rights of dissenters: they could not hold political office, teach school, serve in the military or attend Oxford and Cambridge unless they ascribed to the thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England.

Karen Bowerman

She was accepted at Wolfson College, Oxford, to study for a Ph.D in Theology but deferred her place for a year to try to fund it.

Leslie Orgel

Born in London, England, Orgel received his Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry with first class honours from the University of Oxford in 1949.

Manchester High School for Girls

Julia Bodmer, nee Pilkington, Manchester High School pupil: 1945 - 1953, discovered the details of the Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) with genetic differences causing transplant rejection, and was married to Sir Walter Bodmer, who was the first Professor of Genetics at the University of Oxford, Chancellor of the University of Salford from 1995 to 2005 and Principal from 1996 to 2005 of Hertford College, Oxford

Margaret Tyzack

In the 1990s, she played a major role in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles television series as the young Indiana Jones' strict Oxford-educated tutor, Miss Helen Seymour.

Michael Beschloss

He has served as a historian at the Smithsonian Institution, a Senior Associate Member at St. Antony's College (University of Oxford), a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard University Russian Research Center, a Senior Fellow of the Annenberg Foundation and a Montgomery Fellow and Dorsett Fellow at Dartmouth College.

Oriental Institute, Oxford

The Oriental Institute (commonly referred to as the O.I.) of the University of Oxford, England, is home to the university's Faculty of Oriental Studies.

Oxford Institute of Legal Practice

The Oxford Institute of Legal Practice was established by the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University in 1993 as an Oxford-based law school specialised in the delivery of the Legal Practice Course (LPC), which culminates in the award of the Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice.

Oxford University Lightweight Rowing Club

Oxford University Lightweight Rowing Club (OULRC) is the university rowing club for lightweight men at the University of Oxford which has the privilege of selecting crews to race against the Cambridge University Lightweight Rowing Club in the Henley Boat Races at the end of Hilary term.

Oxford, New Zealand

It is unclear whether the town is named after either Oxford in England, or more particularly after its university, but it is more probable that it was named after Samuel Wilberforce, who was the Bishop of Oxford from 1845 to 1870.

Phyllis Court

In the mid 17th century Phillis Court was the home of Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke (1605–1675), parliamentarian and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, who before his death gave it up to his son William Whitelock, later Tory member of parliament for the University of Oxford.

Prince Talal bin Muhammad

In 2008, Prince Talal joined the Advisory Board of Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, UK.

Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, Glasgow

Nichol had formerly been a coach at the University of Oxford, where along with A. V. Dicey, Vinerian Professor of English Law, philosopher Thomas Hill Green and poet Algernon Charles Swinburne he formed the Old Mortality Society, a literary discussion society.

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.

Roel Sterckx

Sterckx was a pupil at Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege Mol (Belgium) and was educated at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, National Taiwan University, University of Cambridge (Clare Hall; Ph.D 1997) and University of Oxford (Wolfson College).

Samuel Shem

Bergman was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford in 1966, and was tutored by Denis Noble FRS, cardiac physiologist and later head of the Oxford Cardiac Electrophysiology Group.

Shlomo Avineri

Avineri has had numerous visiting appointments including Yale University, Wesleyan University, Australian National University, Cornell University, University of California, The Queen's College, Oxford, Northwestern University, Cardozo School of Law, and Oxford and, most recently, the University of Toronto.

Smuts Hall

The result was the design of cloisters giving access to a number of "entries", "staircases" or "flats" modeled on the Oxford and Cambridge Colleges.

St Botolph's Church, Botolphs

Most of the priory's holdings, including the advowson, were transferred to Magdalen College at the University of Oxford in the late 15th century, and except for a few years from 1475 this institution nominated the rector until 1953, when the right of presentation was voluntarily surrendered to the Bishop of Chichester.

Stephen Oppenheimer

From 1979 he moved into medical research and teaching, with positions at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Oxford University, a research centre in Kilifi, Kenya, and the Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang.

Stranded asset

The Stranded Assets Programme at the University of Oxford's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment broadly defines 'stranded assets' as, 'assets that have suffered from unanticipated or premature write-downs, devaluations or conversion to liabilities'.

Stubbs Society

The Stubbs Society was the oldest historical society in the University of Oxford, named in honour of the Victorian historian, William Stubbs.

Temasek Junior College

TJC students have been admitted to universities including MIT, Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, Oxford, Duke, LSE, University of Toronto, McGill, UCLA, Berkeley, Caltech, Stanford, Peking University and Amherst.

Terence Lucy Greenidge

He was a first generation Barbadian born in England and second son of Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge (who came up to study and remained at Oxford as an academic) and his wife Edith Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of William Lucy, at that time the sole owner of Lucy Ironworks, previously known as the Eagle Ironworks, in Walton Well Road, Jericho, Oxford.

Warwick Sabin

In 1997 he won the Harry S. Truman Scholarship, and in 1998 he was named to the USA Today Academic All-Star Team and won the Marshall Scholarship for study at the University of Oxford.

Wellington Square, Oxford

In the centre of the square is a small park, Wellington Square Gardens, owned by the University of Oxford.

William Whitlock

William Whitelock, also spelt Whitlock (died 22 November 1717), an English gentleman and member of parliament for the University of Oxford