Portal:University of Oxford/Did you know/16

Articles from Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives about the university and people associated with it:
 * ... that the reredos (pictured) installed in 1864 in the chapel of Jesus College, Oxford has been described variously as "handsome", "somewhat tawdry" and looking like "corned beef"?
 * ... that the first journal articles written by the entomologist Robert Perkins were published when he was a classics student at Oxford, with no scientific education?
 * ... that Vernon Erskine-Crum was appointed General Officer Commanding of the British Army in Northern Ireland in 1971, during the Troubles, but was relieved within a month after suffering a heart attack?
 * ... that Kingsley Fairbridge established the first child migration scheme for impoverished British children which over 68 years housed and educated 1,195 boys and girls at his farm school in Pinjarra, Western Australia?
 * ... that David Powel compiled and published the first printed history of Wales in 1584, which popularized the legend that Prince Madoc discovered America in about 1170?

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