Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 22

Births
 * 1751 – David Richards (Jesus), Welsh poet ("Dafydd Ionawr")
 * 1779 – Charles O'Neill, 1st Earl O'Neill (Christ Church), Irish peer and politician
 * 1840 – Ernest Wilberforce (Exeter), Bishop of Chichester 1896–1907
 * 1843 – Mike Mitchell, cricketer
 * 1853 – Charles Gore (Balliol and Trinity), Bishop of Oxford 1911–19
 * 1857 – Sidney Low (Pembroke), journalist and historian
 * 1894 – Charles Langbridge Morgan (Brasenose), playwright and novelist
 * 1919 – John Russell (Magdalen), art critic
 * 1937 – John Crow, Governor of the Bank of Canada 1987–94
 * 1940 – Gillian Shephard (St Hilda's), politician

Other events
 * 1901 – Edward VII (Christ Church) becomes king on the death of Queen Victoria

Deaths
 * 1763 – John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville (Christ Church), Lord President of the Council 1751–63
 * 1903 – Augustus Hare (University), writer
 * 1920 – Edmond Warre (Balliol and All Souls), Headmaster (1884–1905) and Provost of Eton (1909–18)
 * 1960 – Peter Floud (Wadham), civil servant
 * 1963 – Matthew Le Marinel (Jesus), Dean of Jersey 1937–59
 * 1967 – Sir Idris Bell (Oriel), papyrologist
 * 1992 – Sir Charles Hyde Villiers (New College), soldier and businessman
 * 1994 – Columba Cary-Elwes (St Benet's Hall and Blackfriars), Benedictine monk
 * 1995 – Sir John Waller, 7th Baronet (Worcester), poet
 * 2001 – Anne Burns (St Hugh's), aeronautical engineer and glider pilot