Portal:University of Oxford/Did you know/28

Articles from Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives about the university and people associated with it:
 * ... that Seymour King, Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull Central for 25 years, was the first climber to reach the summits of Mont Maudit and Aiguille Blanche de Peuterey (pictured)?
 * ... that Andrew N. Meltzoff ' s research revealed that infants of only a few weeks of age can imitate facial expressions and hand gestures?
 * ... that civil engineer Robert Wynne-Edwards was the first President of the Institution of Civil Engineers to be elected while still working as a contractor?
 * ... that Irish cricketer and artist Robert Gregory was the subject of four poems by W. B. Yeats?
 * ... that when a rival took over an estate belonging to Sir Walter Clarges, Clarges used his position as a Member of Parliament to send the interloper to jail?

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