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12 unusual facts about university of Oxford


Alexander Ewing

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

Byrchall High School

Rodney Robert Porter, biochemist, won the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the structure of antibodies, Whitley Professor of Biochemistry from 1967-85 at the University of Oxford

Frederick VIII of Denmark

In 1863, Prince Frederick was sent to do studies at the University of Oxford but when his father ascended the throne in November that year, he became Crown Prince and returned to Denmark.

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.

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.

John Woodbridge

He studied at the University of Oxford, but, objecting to the oath of conformity, left the university and studied privately till 1634, when he immigrated to America.

Maltby Academy

It became Maltby Comprehensive School, being officially opened on 7 October 1967 by Alan Bullock, the Master of St Catherine's College, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.

Michael Proffitt

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

Riversimple Urban Car

The Riversimple Urban Car was designed and developed in the United Kingdom by teams at Cranfield and Oxford Universities.

Sfakia

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

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.


Ad Bax

He studied at Delft University of Technology where he got his engineer's degree in 1978, and Ph.D. degree in applied physics in 1981, after spending considerable time working with Ray Freeman at Oxford University.

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.

Camden Professor of Ancient History

The Camden Professorship of Ancient History at the University of Oxford was established in 1622 by William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms, and endowed with the income of the manor of Bexley.

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.

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.

Corallian Limestone

The outcrop known as Headington stone was quarried at Headington Quarry on the outskirts of Oxford and used for many of the historic University buildings there.

Cuthbert Tunstall

Cuthbert studied mathematics, theology, and law at Oxford, Cambridge, and Padua, where he graduated Doctor of Laws.

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.

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

Framing the early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean 400–800

Framing the early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean 400–800 (2005) is a history book by English historian Christopher Wickham at the University of Oxford.

French Wikipedia

According to a 2013 Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford study, Ségolène Royal (FR) and unidentified flying object (objet volant non identifié) were the most controversial articles on the French Wikipedia.

Grand Embassy of Peter the Great

On invitation of William III, Peter and part of the mission also went to England in January 1698, where the tsar, visited Gilbert Burnet and Edmond Halley in the Royal Observatory, the Royal Mint, the Royal Society the University of Oxford, and several shipyards and artillery plants.

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.

Hugh Allen Oliver Hill

Hugh Allen Oliver Hill FRSC FRS (born 1937), usually known as Allen Hill, is Emeritus Professor of Bioinorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford and Wadham College, Oxford.

Hugh Lygon

He was a friend of Waugh's at Oxford (A. L. Rowse believed the two to be lovers), where both were members of the Hypocrites' Club.

Iain Burnside

Following study at Oxford University, the Royal Academy of Music and the Chopin Academy in Warsaw he became a freelance pianist, specialising particularly in song repertoire.

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.

Joseph Treffry

He did not complete his education at Exeter College, Oxford and returned to Fowey and started the rebuild the ancestral home, Place.

JournalServer

The initiative was formed in the summer of 2001 with the support of the University of Oxford, BITS Pilani and the National Science Council of Taiwan, with seed-funding from the AIT Trust based in Imperial College London.

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.

Kings Manor Community College

Local newspaper The Argus commented upon the irony of the school's first pupil to go onto the University of Oxford in the same year that Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families Ed Balls threatened the school with closure.

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.

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.

Oxford Rewley Road railway station

Plans to construct new premises for the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford led to dismantling of the station building in 1999 with the financial support of the University.

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.

Paul Roos Gymnasium

The Rhodes Scholarship was instituted in 1903, and Paul Roos is one of four schools in South Africa entitled to award a Rhodes Scholarship annually to an ex-pupil to study at 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.

Reinhard Bendix

He held guest professorships at numerous universities, including at Columbia University, St. Catherine's and Nuffield Colleges at the University of Oxford, the Free University of Berlin, the University of Constance, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the University of Heidelberg.

Richard Sergeant

He took his degree at the University of Oxford (20 February 1570-1), and arrived at the English College, Reims, on 25 July 1581.

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.

Robert V. Jackson

He was raised in Nkana, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) where his father worked on the copper mines and was educated at Falcon College in Rhodesia and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he rose to the presidency of the Oxford Union.

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).

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.

The Business School

The University of Oxford Business School has been colloquially referred to as The Business School since 1999.

The North Ship

Some of the poems were composed while Larkin was an undergraduate at the University of Oxford, but the bulk were written in the period 1943 to 1944 when he was running the public library in Wellington, Shropshire and writing his second novel A Girl in Winter.

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.

Whitelands College

One of the oldest higher education institutions in England (predating every university except Oxford, Cambridge, London and Durham), Whitelands College was founded by the Church of England's National Society in 1841 as a teacher training college for women.

William W. Murdoch

After graduation, he headed to the University of Oxford to study insect population dynamics at the Bureau of Animal Population under Charles Sutherland Elton.

William Whitlock

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