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Articles from Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives about the university and people associated with it:
 * ... that after Evelyn Waugh (pictured) brought a priest to anoint lapsed Catholic Hubert Duggan on his deathbed, Duggan was reconciled to the church, an event Waugh fictionalised in Brideshead Revisited?
 * ... that for helping endow a professorship of botany at Oxford, James Sherard was granted a doctorate in medicine by the university in 1731?
 * ... that British journalist and Liberal politician Colin Coote was an editor of the The Daily Telegraph for 14 years?
 * ... that Sir Ian Anstruther, 8th Baronet, held two separate baronetcies which on his death went to different sons?
 * ... that George Hargreaves, Christian Party candidate in the 2008 Haltemprice and Howden by-election, has said that the dragon symbol on the Welsh flag is "nothing less than the sign of Satan"?

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