Portal:University of Oxford/Did you know/31

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

... that John Prideaux Lightfoot commissioned the Adoration of the Magi tapestry (detail pictured) from Morris & Co. for the Gothic revival chapel at Exeter College, but died before it was completed?
... that special trains were laid on for voters returning to Oxford for the 1860 election of the Boden Professor of Sanskrit?
... that William Morfill was the first professor of Russian in Britain?
...that a scathing obituary of British author Lord Michael Pratt in The Daily Telegraph called him "an unabashed snob and social interloper on a grand scale", who habitually outstayed his welcome?
... that one 16th-century Registrar of the University of Oxford was dismissed after neglecting his duties for a year, then imprisoned and fined after throwing a punch when the debate had ended?

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