Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/August 22

Births

• 1771 – John Rickman (Magdalen Hall and Lincoln), statistician and government official
• 1800 – Edward Bouverie Pusey (Christ Church and Oriel), Regius Professor of Hebrew and leading member of the Oxford movement
• 1813 – John Armstrong (Lincoln), bishop
• 1820 – William Lockhart (Exeter), Roman Catholic priest
• 1835 – William Edward Hall (University), lawyer and mountaineer
• 1869 – Claud Schuster, 1st Baron Schuster (New College), Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office 1915–44
• 1877 – Anthony Collett (Oriel), naturalist
• 1900 – Howard Marshall (Oriel), radio broadcaster
• 1912 – Sir John Aubrey-Fletcher, 7th Baronet (New College), soldier
• 1933 – Theodore Zeldin (Christ Church and St Antony's), historian of France
• 1938 – Keith Ward (Linacre and Christ Church), Regius Professor of Divinity 1991–2004
• 1944 – Roger Cashmore (Balliol, University and Brasenose), physicist and Principal of Brasenose since 2003
• 1959 – Mark Williams (Brasenose), actor and comedian
• 1964 – Julian King (St Peter's), diplomat

Deaths

• 1532 – William Warham (New College), Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor of the University
• 1643 – Sir William Pennyman, 1st Baronet (Christ Church), soldier and landowner
• 1667 – Alexander Hyde (New College), Bishop of Salisbury 1665–67
• 1709 – John Jones (Jesus), clergyman and physician
• 1881 – James Stuart-Wortley (Christ Church and Merton), politician
• 1903 – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (Christ Church), Prime Minister (three times) and Chancellor of the University 1869–1903
• 1905 – David Binning Monro (Brasenose, Balliol and Oriel), Provost of Oriel 1882–1905
• 1905 – Alfred Waterhouse, architect of parts of Balliol College and the Oxford Union
• 1918 – Oswald Cawley (New College), soldier and politician
• 1931 – Arthur Stanley, 5th Baron Sheffield (Balliol), Governor of Victoria 1914–20
• 1963 – William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, benefactor to the university and founder of Nuffield College

Other events

• 1912 – C. B. Fry (Wadham), England cricket captain, plays his final test match.