Portal:University of Oxford/Did you know/12

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

... that Kenelm Hubert Digby was the proposer of the notorious 1933 "King and Country" debate in the Oxford Union (debating chamber pictured)?
... that the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club claims to be the second oldest ice hockey team in the world?
... that Christopher Elrington, general editor of the Victoria County History, was a professor at the University of London even though he never taught there?
... that the position of Laudian Professor of Arabic was established at Oxford by William Laud, the Archbishop of Canterbury?
... that Gwilym Davies was the first person to broadcast in Welsh, on Saint David's Day in 1923?

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