In 2019, the Oxford University Society of Washington, DC sponsored a talk on Oxford College Arms by the Oxbridge Pursuivant.
This will be repeated via Zoom on August 20, 2020. The event is sponsored by a joint North American team of the three capital-city branches of the Oxford University Society—Washington, D.C.; Ottawa, Canada; and Mexico City.
To get a copy, ahead of the talk, of the 4th Edition of the 112-page full-color printed book, go to Amazon or your favorite bookstore.
Amazon offers the book for $20, with free delivery. It also offers the Kindle version for $5.99. There is even a used-book market. Type "Oxford College Arms" in Google and you should get transported to the Amazon page for the book.
Or use this link to get to the same place: https://www.amazon.com/Oxford-College-Arms-Intriguing-Stories/dp/0984523235.
Meanwhile, here is a review of the book, by Kirkus Reviews: https://theoxbridgepursuivant.blogspot.com/2020/05/oxford-college-arms-kirkus-reviews.html.
You can get a flavor of the book by checking out the free pages posted on the Amazon site, or the Index to the 4th Edition here: https://theoxbridgepursuivant.blogspot.com/2020/05/oxford-college-arms-index-to-4th-ed.html.
Another way to fill your day as you hunker down to elude the Covid-19 disease is to look at the Oxonian Birthday List posted by the Oxford Pursuivant here: https://theoxbridgepursuivant.blogspot.com/2020/07/birthdays-oxonians-july-2020.html.
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Showing posts with label Oxford birthdays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oxford birthdays. Show all posts
Monday, July 27, 2020
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.
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
16 | Adam Smith (Balliol) 1723
17 | John Wesley (Ch.Ch.) 1703
July
10 | E. 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
29 | C. S. Lewis (Univ.) 1898
December
18 | Charles 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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