Portal:University of Oxford/Did you know/30

Articles from Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives about the university and people associated with it:
 * ... that Clement, Bishop of Dunblane, (pictured) was the first Dominican friar to obtain a bishopric in the British Isles?
 * ... that Sir William Fortescue was prompted to become a barrister by the death of his wife?
 * ... that one of Bodley's Librarians at Oxford had been in the King's African Rifles, another wrote about French anarchy, another had sixteen siblings, another used boys for routine library tasks, and another later died of a "surfeit of cherries"?
 * ... that Lord Nolan was the first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life?
 * ... that Welsh lawyer Edward Wynne was, in 1714, the first landowner to grow turnips on Anglesey?

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