Portal:University of Oxford/Did you know/14

Articles from Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives about the university and people associated with it:
 * ... that the Scots American War Memorial (detail pictured) has a poetic line by Ewan Mackintosh who was killed while observing fighting at Cambrai?
 * ... that William David Davies was the first Welsh non-conformist to obtain a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Oxford?
 * ... that former Gloucestershire cricket captain Sir Derrick Bailey founded an airline and based the colour of its planes on the racing colours of his South African father?
 * ... that English mathematician and geographer Robert Hues served his master Thomas Grey, the last Baron Grey de Wilton, while Grey was imprisoned in the Tower of London?
 * ... that Rev William Cotton, vicar of Frodsham, Cheshire, introduced the skills of beekeeping to New Zealand in the 1840s?

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