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Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/September 1

Births

1606 – Nicholas Slanning (Exeter), Royalist army officer
1611 – William Cartwright (Christ Church), dramatist and clergyman
1827 – Sir George Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick, 3rd Baronet (Christ Church), landowner and developer
1832 – Thomas Fowler (Merton, Lincoln and Corpus Christi), President of Corpus Christi 1881–1904
1863 – Sir Rowland Whitehead, 3rd Baronet (University), barrister and politician
1875 – Cecil Clementi (Magdalen), Governor of Hong Kong
1901 – John Bannerman, Baron Bannerman of Kildonan (Balliol), Scottish rugby international and Liberal politician
1902 – Alec Horsley (Worcester), businessman and peace activist
1903 – Nathaniel L. Clapton (Hertford), teacher
1905 – Gervase Hughes (Corpus Christi), composer
1912 – Gwynfor Evans (St John's), Welsh nationalist and politician
1913 – Dan Davin (Balliol), New Zealand author
1920 – Rayson Huang, chemist and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong 1972–86
1921 – Daphne Park, Baroness Park of Monmouth (Somerville), diplomat and Principal of Somerville 1980–89
1941 – Leonard Ingrams (Corpus Christi), merchant banker and opera festival founder
1948 – Alastair Redfern (Christ Church), Bishop of Derby since 2005
1949 – Hew Strachan (All Souls), military historian and Chichele Professor of the History of War
1951 – Jeremy Black (Worcester and Wolfson), Assyriologist
1971 – Daniel Hannan (Oriel), Conservative politician

Deaths

1646 – Francis Windebank (St John's), Secretary of State 1632–40
1664 – Hannibal Potter (Trinity), President of Trinity 1643–48 and 1660–64
1685 – Leoline Jenkins (Jesus), Secretary of State for the Northern Department 1680–81, Secretary of State for the Southern Department 1681–84 and Principal of Jesus 1661–73
1729 – Richard Steele (Merton), Irish writer and politician
1819 – Sir Edward Knatchbull, 8th Baronet (Christ Church), politician
1938 – Churchill Julius (Worcester), first Archbishop of New Zealand 1922–35
1957 – Frederick S. Boas (Balliol), drama scholar

Other events

2004 – Leo Chamberlain (University and St Benet's Hall) becomes Master of St Benet's Hall.
2006 – Robin Ward (Magdalen and St Stephen's House) becomes Principal of St Stephen's House.

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Births

1675 – William Somervile (New College), poet
1702 – John Evans (Jesus), Welsh clergyman
1705 – Abraham Tucker (Merton), country gentleman and philosopher
1794 – John Boileau (Merton), archaeologist
1856 – Robert Lawrence Ottley (Pembroke, Christ Church and Magdalen), Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology
1859 – Edmund Powell (Trinity), Bishop of Mashonaland 1908–10
1877 – Frederick Soddy (Merton), radiochemist and Nobel Prize winner
1892 – Edmund Herring (New College), Australian soldier, judge and Lieutenant Governor of Victoria
1906 – Christopher Lloyd (Lincoln), naval historian
1926 – Wynne Godley (New College), economist
1928 – Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury (Balliol), Liberal Democrat politician
1931 – David Young (Balliol and Wycliffe Hall), Bishop of Ripon 1977–2000
1938 – Glyn Worsnip (St John's), journalist and presenter
1936 – Marrack Goulding (Magdalen and Wolfson), diplomat and Warden of Wolfson 1997–2006
1948 – Robert Wilkes (Trinity), Dean of Birmingham 2006–09
1955 – George Efstathiou (Keble and New College), astrophysicist and former Savilian Professor of Astronomy
1962 – Keir Starmer (St Edmund Hall), Director of Public Prosecutions 2008–13 and Labour politician

Deaths

1701 – Robert Huntington (Merton), Bishop of Raphoe July to September 1701
1764 – Nathaniel Bliss (Pembroke), Savilian Professor of Geometry and Astronomer Royal
1783 – Edward Edwards (Jesus), Welsh clergyman and classicist
1823 – Thomas Winstanley (Brasenose, Hertford and St Alban Hall), Camden Professor of Ancient History and Laudian Professor of Arabic
1842 – John Ireland (Oriel), Dean of Westminster and founder of the Dean Ireland's Professorship of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture
1850 – Charles Williams-Wynn (Christ Church), politician
1920 – Charles James Lyall (Balliol), civil servant and Arabic scholar
1930 – Archibald Strong (Magdalen), Australian scholar and poet
1935 – A. C. Bradley (Balliol), literary scholar and Oxford Professor of Poetry
1936 – William Rees (Jesus), Welsh priest and writer
1953 – Christopher H. Gilkes (Trinity), schoolmaster
1955 – George Courthope, 1st Baron Courthope (Christ Church), Conservative politician
1965 – Harry Hylton-Foster (Magdalen), Speaker of the House of Commons 1959–65
1968 – Henry Bunbury (St John's), civil servant and accountant
1969 – Norman Manley (Jesus), Chief Minister of Jamaica 1955–62
1973 – J. R. R. Tolkien (Exeter, Merton and Pembroke), author and scholar
1979 – Felix Aylmer (Exeter), actor on stage and screen

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Births

1644 – Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford (Christ Church), politician
1823 – Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury (Merton), three-times Lord Chancellor
1823 – Nevil Story Maskelyne (Wadham), geologist
1830 – Lewis Campbell (Balliol and Queen's), classical scholar
1835 – George Stanton (Hertford), Bishop of Newcastle (New South Wales) 1891–1905
1847 – James Hannington (St Mary Hall), bishop and one of the Martyrs of Uganda
1868 – Ian Malcolm (New College), Conservative politician
1909 – Howard Nixon (Keble), librarian and bibliographer
1912 – James Fisher (Magdalen), naturalist and broadcaster
1920 – Ronald Robinson (Balliol), Beit Professor of Commonwealth History
1938 – Caryl Churchill (Lady Margaret Hall), playwright
1958 – Lance Price (Hertford), journalist and political adviser

Deaths

1721 – Sir William Glynne, 2nd Baronet, politician
1799 – William Thomas (Jesus, Oriel and Pembroke), Welsh clergyman and scholar
1885 – Frederick Bulley (Magdalen), President of Magdalen 1855–85
1901 – Evelyn Abbott (Balliol), classical scholar
1924 – Cyril Jackson (New College), educationalist
1937 – George John Sandys (Pembroke), Conservative politician
1963 – Louis MacNeice (Merton), Irish poet and playwright
1971 – Roundell Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne (University), Conservative politician
1979 – Gordon Rawcliffe (Keble), electrical engineer
1996 – Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleigh (Balliol), Conservative politician
2002 – Dirk ter Haar (Magdalen), physicist
2007 – Lord Michael Pratt (Balliol), historian
2007 – Alan Webster (Queen's), Dean of St Paul's 1978–1987

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Births

1580 – George Percy (Gloucester Hall), explorer and colonial governor of Virginia
1634 – Robert South (Christ Church), priest and Public Orator of the University
1672 – Hugh Boulter (Christ Church and Magdalen), Archbishop of Armagh 1724–42
1818 – Richard Congreve (Wadham), philosopher
1881 – Sir Albert Napier (New College), Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office 1944–54
1891 – Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin (St John's), German general
1900 – Cyril Hare (New College), judge and crime writer
1905 – Mary Renault (St Hugh's), writer of historial fiction
1915 – Roland Mathias (Jesus), poet and writer
1930 – Ann Dummett (Somerville), race relations campaigner
1944 – Sir Anthony Barnes Atkinson (Nuffield), economist and Warden of Nuffield 1994–2005

Deaths

1417 – Robert Hallam, Chancellor of the University 1403–05 and Bishop of Salisbury 1407–17
1588 – Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, Chancellor of the University 1564–88
1753 – Sir Andrew Fountaine (Christ Church), antiquarian and art collector
1613 – John Williams (Corpus Christi, All Souls and Jesus), Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity and Principal of Jesus
1850 – James Ingram (Trinity), Rawlinson Professor of Anglo-Saxon 1803–08, Keeper of the Archives 1815–18 and President of Trinity 1824–50
1906 – William Bowen Rowlands (Jesus), politician and lawyer
1915 – Sir John Fuller, 1st Baronet (Christ Church), politician and Governor of Victoria 1911–13
1927 – Bernard Coleridge, 2nd Baron Coleridge (Trinity), politician and judge
1962 – Elwyn Brook-Jones (Jesus), actor
1989 – Sir Ronald Syme (Oriel, Trinity, Brasenose and Wolfson), Camden Professor of Ancient History 1949–70
1977 – E. F. Schumacher (New College), economist
1988 – Sir Leonard Huxley (New College), Australian physicist
1994 – Mark Bonham Carter, Baron Bonham-Carter (Balliol), publisher and politician

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Births

1802 – Frederick Oakeley (Christ Church), priest and translator into English of "O come all ye faithful"
1829 – William Odling (Worcester), chemist who helped to develop the periodic table
1834 – Robinson Ellis (Balliol and Trinity), classical scholar
1845 – George Kennion (Oriel), Bishop of Adelaide 1882–94 and of Bath and Wells 1894–1921
1861 – Sir Walter Raleigh (Merton), Merton Professor of English Literature 1904–22
1861 – Henry Tristram, rugby union international and cricketer
1862 – Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston (Trinity), President of Trinity 1907–38
1881 – John Parker (Brasenose), politician and barrister
1885 – Jenkin Alban Davies (Jesus), Welsh rugby union international
1888 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (All Souls), Spalding Professor of Eastern Religion and Ethics 1936–52 and President of India 1962–67
1887 – Charles Fairburn (Brasenose), railway engineer
1912 – Fredrick de Saram (Keble), Sri Lankan cricketer, lawyer and military coup plotter
1922 – Sir Denys Wilkinson, nuclear physicist
1934 – Russell Harty (Exeter), television presenter
1936 – Jonathan Kozol (Magdalen), American writer on education issues
1943 – David Atkinson (Corpus Christi), Bishop of Thetford 2001–09
1944 – Gareth Evans (Magdalen), Australian Labor politician
1954 – Christopher Prentice, diplomat
1962 – Peter Wingfield (Brasenose), Welsh actor

Deaths

1569 – Edmund Bonner (Broadgates Hall), twice Bishop of London in the 16th century
1929 – James Hozier, 2nd Baron Newlands (Balliol), Scottish civil servant and politician
1951 – Alexander McCulloch (University), Olympic rower
1952 – Roy Robinson, 1st Baron Robinson (Magdalen), forester and public servant
1999 – Alan Clark (Christ Church), Conservative politician and diarist

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Births

1767 – Thomas Bayly Howell (Christ Church), lawyer and writer
1785 – Francis Robert Bonham (Corpus Christi), politician and Storekeeper of the Ordnance
1860 – George Irby, 6th Baron Boston (Christ Church), scientist and politician
1863 – Walter Robberds (Keble), Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church 1908–34
1908 – Sir Anthony Wagner (Balliol), officer of arms and genealogist
1915 – Sir Derman Christopherson (University), engineering scientist, Vice-Chancellor of Durham University and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge
1921 – John Bickersteth (Christ Church), Bishop of Bath and Wells 1975–87
1932 – Sir Colin McColl (Queen's), Head of the Secret Intelligence Service 1989–94
1951 – David Moxon (St Peter's), one of the joint archbishops of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia since 2006
1952 – Simon Burns (Worcester), Conservative politician
1963 – John Laughland, journalist

Deaths

1727 – George Hooper (Christ Church), Bishop of St Asaph 1703–04 and of Bath and Wells 1704–27
1748 – Edmund Gibson (Queen's), Bishop of Lincoln 1716–23 and of London 1723–48
1866 – Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook (Christ Church), politician
1935 – John Bede Dalley (University), Australian journalist
1950 – Olaf Stapledon (Balliol), philosopher and science fiction writer
1972 – Dyneley Hussey (Corpus Christi), war poet and journalist
1973 – Sir William Henry Harris (New College and Christ Church), organist and composer
1974 – Sir Adrian Holman (New College), diplomat
1990 – E. F. Watling (University), classics teacher

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Births

1804 – Thomas Thomas (Jesus), Welsh clergyman
1805 – Samuel Wilberforce (Oriel), Bishop of Winchester
1814 – William Butterfield, architect of Keble College
1830 – Charles Henry Pearson (Oriel), historian
1893 – Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha (St John's), Minister of Transport and Secretary of State for War
1905 – Kathleen Coburn (St Hugh's), Canadian academic of English literature
1912 – Gwynno James (Keble), Dean of Brecon 1964–67
1914 – Billy Hughes (Balliol), Labour politician
1914 – Mandy Mitchell-Innes (Brasenose), England test cricketer
1917 – Leonard Cheshire (Merton), RAF pilot and charity worker
1917 – John Cornforth (St Catherine's), Australian winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
1943 – Chris Green (Oriel), railway manager
1947 – Peter Wheatley (Queen's), Bishop of Edmonton since 1999
1949 – Martin Kettle (Balliol), journalist
1956 – Robert Reed, Lord Reed (Balliol), Scottish judge

Deaths

1665 – Adam Blakeman (Christ Church), first minister of the church in Stratford, Connecticut
1696 – John Powell (Jesus), Welsh judge
1700 – William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford (Magdalen), civil war soldier
1719 – John Harris (Trinity), encyclopaedia writer
1850 – David Williams (Jesus), geologist
1897 – Lewis Cave (Lincoln), High Court judge
1929 – Frederic Weatherly (Brasenose), author and lyricist ("Danny Boy")
1933 – Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (Balliol), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1905–1916
1952 – Claude Blagden (Corpus Christi), Bishop of Peterborough 1927–49
1956 – C. B. Fry (Wadham), cricketer and polymath
1969 – Gavin Maxwell (Hertford), naturalist and author
1980 – Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne (Magdalen), Lord Chancellor 1962–64
1985 – Ellis Waterhouse (New College), art historian
1990 – A. J. P. Taylor (Oriel and Magdalen), historian
2006 – Cornelius O'Leary (Nuffield), historian and political scientist

Other events

1972 – Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt (Magdalen) retires as Governor-General of New Zealand.
2002 – Simon Rattle (St Anne's) gives his first concert as Principal Conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Births

1499 – Peter Martyr Vermigli, Regius Professor of Divinity 1548–54
1639 – William Trumbull (St John's), politician and diplomat
1833 – John Nichol (Balliol), Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow 1862–89
1857 – Charles Clerke (Christ Church), scored the only goal in the 1879 FA Cup Final
1857 – Sir John Wood, 1st Baronet (Magdalen), barrister and politician
1907 – William Wentworth, Australian politician
1910 – Lewis Clive (Christ Church), British Olympic rower
1912 – Angus Maude (Oriel), Conservative politician
1916 – David Anderson (Pembroke), Solicitor General for Scotland 1960–64
1927 – Alf Bøe, Norwegian art historian
1931 – John Garrett (University), Labour politician
1931 – Desmond Guinness (Christ Church), author on art and architecture
1934 – Bernard Donoughue, Baron Donoughue (Lincoln and Nuffield), businessman and politician
1964 – Victor Ubogu (St Anne's), English rugby union international
1979 – Simon Danielli (Trinity), Scottish rugby union international

Deaths

1539 – John Stokesley (Magdalen Hall and Magdalen College), Bishop of London 1530–39
1637 – Robert Fludd (St John's), physician, mathematician and astrologer
1654 – Sir Robert Brerewood (Brasenose), politician
1678 – Arthur Owen (Hart Hall), politician
1690 – Sir William Glynne, 1st Baronet (Jesus), Welsh politician
1792 – Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington (Christ Church), politician
1863 – Henry Lygon, 4th Earl Beauchamp (Christ Church), soldier and politician
1980 – John Traill Christie (Jesus), Principal of Jesus 1949–67

Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/September 9

Births

1747 – Thomas Coke (Jesus), Welsh Methodist minister and bishop
1798 – Cosmo Innes (Balliol), Scottish historian
1858 – Claude Wilson (Exeter), represented Oxford University in the 1880 FA Cup Final
1898 – Beverley Nichols (Balliol), author
1911 – John Gorton (Brasenose), Prime Minister of Australia 1968–71
1922 – Sir Anthony Parsons (Balliol), diplomat
1938 – Richard Sharp (Balliol), England rugby union international
1940 – Colin Bennetts (Jesus), Bishop of Coventry 1998–2008
1947 – Bryan Sykes (Wolfson, human geneticist
1960 – Hugh Grant (New College), actor
1968 – Chris Alexander (Balliol), Canadian Conservative politician
1972 – Natasha Kaplinsky (Hertford), television presenter
1975 – Anton Oliver (Worcester), New Zealand rugby union international
1981 – Jamie Schroeder (Christ Church), American rower

Deaths

1680 – Henry Marten (University), politician and one of the regicides of King Charles I
1880 – Charles Lowder (Exeter), Anglican priest and founder of the Society of the Holy Cross
1890 – Henry Liddon (Christ Church and St Edmund Hall), Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture 1870–82
1907 – Eugene Lee-Hamilton (Oriel), poet
1907 – Ernest Wilberforce (Exeter), Bishop of Newcastle 1882–96, Bishop of Chichester 1896–1907
1972 – Sir Harold Hartley (Balliol), physical chemist
1997 – John Hackett (New College), British army general
2000 – Sir Julian Critchley (Pembroke), Conservative politician

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Births

Deaths

1397 – Adam Easton (Gloucester College), English Cardinal

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Births

Deaths

1999 – Sir John Rigby Hale (Jesus), historian of the Renaissance

Other events

1954 – Lord of the Flies, the first novel by William Golding (Brasenose), is published.

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Births

1801 – Andrew Bloxam (Worcester, clergyman and naturalist
1807 – Henry William Wilberforce (Oriel), Anglican clergyman who became a Roman Catholic
1834 – William Des Vœux (Balliol), British colonial governor of Fiji, Newfoundland and Hong Kong
1837 – Thomas Charles Edwards (Lincoln), first principal of University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
1879 – Warren Fisher (Hertford), civil servant
1881 – Ridley Duppuy (Keble), Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong 1920–32
1915 – Samuel Finer (Trinity and Balliol), political historian
1915 – Thomas Williams (St Catherine's), Labour politician and judge
1919 – Robin Gandy (Wolfson), mathematician and logician
1920 – Nathaniel Fiennes, 21st Baron Saye and Sele (New College), businessman
1931 – Andrew Saunders (Magdalen), Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings 1973–89
1931 – George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie (New College), politician and banker
1939 – Deborah Lavin (Lady Margaret Hall), historian
1968 – Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu (St Cross), Romanian politician and historian

Deaths

1906 – Griffith Arthur Jones (Jesus), Welsh priest
1919 – Benjamin Bickley Rogers (Wadham), classical scholar
1956 – Frederick Soddy (Merton), radiochemist
1990 – Michael Swann (Oriel), molecular and cell biologist, and Provost of Oriel
1995 – Albert Goodwin (Jesus), historian
2003 – Hugo Young (Balliol), journalist
2007 – Richard Hornby (Trinity), Conservative politician and businessman