Portal:University of Oxford/Did you know/5

Articles from Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives about the university and people associated with it:
 * ... that the Australian lamington cake (pictured) is believed to have been named after Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, the then-Governor of Queensland?
 * ... that William Havard, who was bishop of two Welsh dioceses (St Asaph, then St David's), once represented Wales in an international rugby union match?
 * ... that Robert Gentilis graduated from Oxford aged 12 and became a Fellow of All Souls College aged 17, below the minimum fellowship age of 18?
 * ... that cricketer Roger Kimpton also won an Oxford University tennis tournament and a golf blue, and was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross as a Second World War fighter pilot?
 * ... that when scholar Spencer Barrett’s tax return was challenged, he showed that to understand a text of Pindar he had to know how Mount Etna had appeared to a passing sailor?

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