Portal:University of Oxford/Did you know/10

Articles from Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives about the university and people associated with it:

... that endocrinologist Sir Raymond Hoffenberg was forced to leave South Africa in 1968 due to his opposition to apartheid, and was later President of the Royal College of Physicians and of Wolfson College (pictured)?
... that Christopher Chavasse was an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, a Bishop of Rochester, and an Olympic athlete?
... that, in 1987, Bolaji Akinyemi proposed the development of nuclear weapons by Nigeria?
... that historian Henry William Carless Davis once served as a member of the British contingent to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919?
... that future Canadian Senator John Gilbert Higgins hung black crêpe paper on his door in mourning the day that Newfoundland joined Canada?

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