Portal:University of Oxford/Did you know/26

Articles from Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives about the university and people associated with it:

... that Charles Ranken (pictured) and Lord Randolph Churchill founded the Oxford University Chess Club in April 1869, with Ranken becoming its first president?
... that John Verney became a Member of Parliament to gain contacts to help him in his career as a barrister?
... that W. G. Collingwood, John Ruskin's secretary and assistant, was a noted scholar of Norse history and art?
... that Rabbi Asher Lopatin supported a Chicago ban on foie gras on the grounds that the Torah prohibits cruelty to animals, noting that "chopped liver is good, but foie gras is bad"?
... that Alexander Wilkinson managed to play 74 more first-class cricket matches despite an injured hand that almost had to be amputated after World War I?

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