Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/July 25

Births

• 1842 – Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley (Balliol and All Souls), Home Secretary 1895–1900
• 1894 – Norman McLeod Rogers (University), Canadian politician
• 1895 – Ifan ab Owen Edwards (Lincoln), founder of Urdd Gobaith Cymru (Welsh League of Youth)
• 1909 – Godman Irvine (Magdalen), Conservative politician
• 1921 – Arthur Cain (Magdalen and St Peter's), zoologist

Deaths

• 1643 – Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull (Oriel), Royalist nobleman killed in the English Civil War
• 1764 – Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 4th Baronet (New College), politician
• 1829 – John Roberts (Jesus), Anglican priest and writer
• 1876 – Robert Caesar Childers (Wadham), Orientalist scholar
• 1892 – Thomas Claughton (Trinity), Oxford Professor of Poetry 1852–57, Bishop of Rochester 1867–77, Bishop of St Albans 1877–90
• 1906 – Edward Chapman (Merton and Magdalen), Conservative politician
• 1908 – Peter Medd (University and Keble), Anglican priest and scholar
• 1910 – Robert Torrens O'Neill (Brasenose), Conservative politician
• 1952 – Herbert Murrill (Worcester), composer and organist
• 1956 – St John Evans (St John's), Bishop of St John's (S. Africa) 1951–56
• 1963 – Leonard Kempthorne (Queen's), Bishop of Polynesia 1922–62
• 1963 – Frederick Pitman (New College), Olympic rower
• 2003 – John Schlesinger (Balliol), actor and director