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Articles from Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives about the university and people associated with it:


 * ... that Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker, a junior Foreign Office minister during the Suez Crisis in 1956, was sacked by new Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (pictured) in 1957 for his private opposition to the invasion of Egypt?
 * ... that English headmistress Olive Willis founded Downe House School, where her chauffeur-architect-engineer slept in her bathroom?
 * ... that Sir William Gregory was appointed Speaker of the House of Commons in 1679 after only a year in parliament?
 * ... that Giles Clarke, chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, studied Arabic at the University of Damascus?
 * ... that the Welsh Tractarian priest John David Jenkins, known as the "Rail men's Apostle", became President of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants?

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