Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/February 5

Births

• 1788 – Robert Peel (Christ Church), Prime Minister and creator of the modern police force
• 1853 – Henry Seton-Karr (Corpus Christi), explorer and politician
• 1855 – Thomas Ashton, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde (University), industrialist and politician
• 1856 – Frank Podmore (Pembroke), author and psychic researcher
• 1856 – Douglas Sladen (Trinity), historian and author
• 1862 – Thomas Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe (Balliol), nobleman and Olympic rifle shooting competitor
• 1892 – Anthony Williams (Exeter), Bishop of Bermuda
• 1904 – Sir Antony Hornby (New College), stockbroker
• 1904 – Frederick Gordon-Lennox, 9th Duke of Richmond (Christ Church), motor racing driver and promoter
• 1910 – John Rathbone (Christ Church), politician and fighter pilot
• 1916 – Patrick Gibson, Baron Gibson (Magdalen), Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain and the National Trust
• 1924 – Anthony Besch (Worcester), opera director
• 1931 – Michael Kauffmann (Merton), art historian
• 1937 – John Barnard Bush (Balliol), farmer and landowner
• 1938 – Colin Semper (Keble), Provost of Coventry Cathedral
• 1945 – Douglas Hogg (Christ Church), lawyer and politician
• 1951 – Sir Mark Jones (Worcester and St Cross), Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum then Master of St Cross

Deaths

• 1917 – Francis Foljambe (Christ Church), politician
• 1917 – Paul Rubens (University), songwriter and librettist
• 1917 – Charles Stanhope, 8th Earl of Harrington (Christ Church), nobleman and polo player
• 1940 – Sir Francis Blake, 1st Baronet, of Tillmouth Park (University), landowner and politician
• 1963 – Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel (Balliol), Home Secretary 1931–32
• 1974 – Alistair Campbell (Balliol and Pembroke), Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon 1963–74
• 2010 – Peter Calvocoressi (Balliol), historian and publisher