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On this day
Births
1805 –
John David Edwards
(
Jesus
), Welsh cleric and hymn tune composer
1872 –
Henry Herbert Williams
(
Queen's
and
Hertford
) Principal of
St Edmund Hall
and
Bishop of Carlisle
1899 –
Thomas Iorwerth Ellis
(
Jesus
), Welsh classical scholar
1907 –
John Tilney
(
Magdalen
),
Conservative
politician
1928 –
Michael John Hurd
(
Pembroke
), British composer
1942 –
John Godfrey
(
Balliol
and
St Antony's
), Canadian academic and politician
Deaths
1813 –
David Hartley
(
Corpus Christi
and
Merton
), politician and scientist
1880 –
Francis Trevelyan Buckland
(
Christ Church
), surgeon and natural historian
1963 –
Alan Gardiner
(
Queen's
), Egyptologist
1979 –
Donald Creighton
(
Balliol
), Canadian historian
1984 –
Nigel Cornwall
(
Oriel
), Bishop of
Borneo
1949–1962
2005 –
Charles Brett
(
New College
), solicitor and author