Portal:University of Oxford/Did you know/4

Articles from Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives about the university and people associated with it:
 * ... that Harrison Oxley was the youngest cathedral organist in Britain when he became organist of St Edmundsbury Cathedral (pictured) at age 24?
 * ... that the Rev. George W. Bridges libelled anti-slavery activists Escoffery and Lecesne when he said they wanted to "sheath their daggers in the breasts of their white inhabitants"?
 * ... that Ian Harvey, a Conservative junior minister in the United Kingdom, resigned his seat in 1958 after a sex scandal?
 * ... that English musician and poet Robert Wydow is the earliest known recipient of a Bachelor of Music degree from the university?
 * ... that, after being defrocked as a Church of England priest, Harold Davidson became a seaside entertainer and was killed in 1937 by a lion when he trod on its tail?

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