Portal:University of Oxford/Did you know/31

Articles from Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives about the university and people associated with it:
 * ... that John Prideaux Lightfoot commissioned the Adoration of the Magi tapestry (detail pictured) from Morris & Co. for the Gothic revival chapel at Exeter College, but died before it was completed?
 * ... that special trains were laid on for voters returning to Oxford for the 1860 election of the Boden Professor of Sanskrit?
 * ... that William Morfill was the first professor of Russian in Britain?
 * ...that a scathing obituary of British author Lord Michael Pratt in The Daily Telegraph called him "an unabashed snob and social interloper on a grand scale", who habitually outstayed his welcome?
 * ... that one 16th-century Registrar of the University of Oxford was dismissed after neglecting his duties for a year, then imprisoned and fined after throwing a punch when the debate had ended?

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