Portal:University of Oxford/Did you know/26

Articles from Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives about the university and people associated with it:
 * ... that Charles Ranken (pictured) and Lord Randolph Churchill founded the Oxford University Chess Club in April 1869, with Ranken becoming its first president?
 * ... that John Verney became a Member of Parliament to gain contacts to help him in his career as a barrister?
 * ... that W. G. Collingwood, John Ruskin's secretary and assistant, was a noted scholar of Norse history and art?
 * ... that Rabbi Asher Lopatin supported a Chicago ban on foie gras on the grounds that the Torah prohibits cruelty to animals, noting that "chopped liver is good, but foie gras is bad"?
 * ... that Alexander Wilkinson managed to play 74 more first-class cricket matches despite an injured hand that almost had to be amputated after World War I?

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