Portal:University of Oxford/Did you know/17

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

... that it was the British geologist Joseph Prestwich (bust pictured) who confirmed the findings of Boucher de Perthes?
... that a Regius Professor of Civil Law was elected to parliament, gaoled, exiled, re-elected, kidnapped, put in the Tower, tortured, hanged, drawn and quartered, then beatified?
... that Mike Woodin was the Principal Speaker of the Green Party of England and Wales for six years and a city councillor for Oxford for 10 years?
... that A.W. Lawrence, the former Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge University, was the brother of "Lawrence of Arabia"?
... that the winners of the university's Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse include the fictional Duke of Dorset in Max Beerbohm's 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson?

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