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On this day
Births
1885 –
Dornford Yates
(
University
), novelist
1924 –
Kenneth Kendall
(
Corpus Christi
), news broadcaster and television presenter
1926 –
John Woodcock
(
Trinity
), cricket journalist
1928 –
Dikran Tahta
(
Christ Church
), mathematician
1929 –
Andrew Graham
(
St John's
),
Bishop of Newcastle
1981–97
Deaths
1778 –
Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Baronet
(
Balliol
), lawyer and politician
1829 –
John Reeves
(
Merton
and
Queen's
), judge and political activist
1912 –
Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet
(
Balliol
and
St John's
), music theorist
1929 –
John Bain
, footballer for the university and England
1938 –
Robert Bourne
(
New College
), rower and politician
1980 –
Harold Loukes
(
Jesus
), educationalist
1998 –
Harry Tuzo
(
Oriel
), army officer