Portal:University of Oxford/Did you know/29
Articles from Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives about the university and people associated with it:
- ... that the establishment of the Marshal Foch Professorship of French Literature at Oxford was announced a few days after Marshal Foch (pictured) signed the Armistice with Germany to end World War I?
- ... that British international rally driver Tony Ambrose was given an MG sports car by his father for winning a scholarship to Jesus College?
- ... that Bishop Graham Chadwick served as a naval intelligence officer in World War II and was expelled from South Africa for anti-apartheid activism?
- ... that Somerset cricketer Izzy Westbury made her senior international debut for the Netherlands aged 15?
- ... that it was speculated that J. K. Rowling based the Harry Potter character Albus Dumbledore on the "splendidly bearded" T. P. Wiseman, her classics professor at Exeter University?