Saturday, March 7, 2015

BIRTHDAYS: Oxonians (Updated March 3, 2016)

Any Oxonian with a Wikipedia entry, dead or alive, belongs on the birthday list.

This post was opened March 7, 2015. It includes college and year of birth.

I have sprinkled in a few Cambridge people that I happen to have written up in relation to the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race Dinners.

If you have names to add to the list, please send them to me and I will add them in - jtmarlin@post.harvard.edu. See also Oxford Obits, by date of death.

January
03 | J.R.R. Tolkien, CBE (Exeter) 1892
27 Charles Dodgson, "Lewis Carroll" (Ch.Ch.) 1832
February
13 | Anna Watkins (Cambridge rower)
21 John Henry Cardinal Newman (Trinity) 1801
21 | W. H. Auden 
April
13 | Frederick Lord North (Trinity) 1732
May
10 | James Viscount Bryce (Trinity) 1838
29 Sir Basil "Gaffer" Blackwell (Merton) 1889
June 
04 Dan Topolski (New) 1945
05 | James Smithson (Pembroke) 1765
16Adam Smith (Balliol) 1723
17John Wesley (Ch.Ch.) 1703
July 
10E. Clerihew Bentley (Merton) 1875
28 | Senator Bill Bradley (Worcester) 1943
August
08 | Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (Trinity) 1605
10 | George Goodman, "Adam Smith" (BNC) 1930
16 | T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) (Jesus) 1888
September
07 | Peter Darrow (Trinity) 1950
October 
23 | Denis Woodfield (Lincoln) 1933
November
09 | Noel Godfrey Chavasse (Trinity) 1884
09 | Francis Chavasse (Trinity and St. Peter's) 1884
15 | William Pitt the Elder, Lord Chatham (Trinity) 1708
21 | Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, "Q" (Trinity) 1863
29C. S. Lewis (Univ.) 1898
December
18Charles Wesley (Ch.Ch.) 1707
22 | James Oglethorpe (Corpus), 1st Gov. of Georgia 1696

Birthdays Unknown
Euclid Tsakalotos (Queen's), Greek Minister of Finance, 1960
Leonard Calvert (Trinity), 1st Gov. of Maryland 1606
Rev. Lawrence Washington (BNC), GW's gggrandfather 1602
George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (Trinity) 1579

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