Portal:University of Oxford/Did you know/8

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

... that the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (pictured) was the site of a major debate in evolutionary biology?
... that despite being appointed to the usually profitable post of comptroller to Prince Charles in 1616, John Vaughan, 1st Earl of Carbery later claimed that serving the Prince had cost him £20,000?
... that Anglican clergyman Chad Varah founded the Samaritans, the world's first crisis hotline, in 1953, at a time when he was also writing for the Eagle comic?
... that British barrister Sir Tony Hetherington was the first head of the Crown Prosecution Service after it was founded in 1986?
... that the Welshmen Edward Edwards, Griffith Griffith, Owen Owen, Richard Richards, Robert Roberts and Thomas Thomas (and his son Thomas Thomas) were all educated at Jesus College?

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