Articles from Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives about the university and people associated with it:
- ... that Charles Ranken (pictured) and Lord Randolph Churchill founded the Oxford University Chess Club in April 1869, with Ranken becoming its first president?
- ... that John Verney became a Member of Parliament to gain contacts to help him in his career as a barrister?
- ... that W. G. Collingwood, John Ruskin's secretary and assistant, was a noted scholar of Norse history and art?
- ... that Rabbi Asher Lopatin supported a Chicago ban on foie gras on the grounds that the Torah prohibits cruelty to animals, noting that "chopped liver is good, but foie gras is bad"?
- ... that Alexander Wilkinson managed to play 74 more first-class cricket matches despite an injured hand that almost had to be amputated after World War I?