Curated category
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
- Miranda KaufmannMiranda Kaufmann was born in 1982 to a Jewish family in London. She grew up surrounded by museums, galleries, and theatres that shaped her early perspective…
- Lewis CarrollCharles Lutwidge Dodgson was born on the 27th of January 1832 at All Saints' Vicarage in Daresbury, Cheshire, the third oldest of 11 children, and the world…
- John LockeJohn Locke composed his own obituary in Latin, and it begins with a command to a passerby. "Stay traveller: near this place lies JOHN LOCKE." The tablet, he…
- John WesleyOn the evening of the 24th of May 1738, John Wesley went very unwillingly to a religious society on Aldersgate Street in London.
- W. H. AudenW. H. Auden died on the 29th of September 1973 in a Vienna hotel room, a few hours after reading his poems aloud at the Palais Pálffy.
- William Forrest (poet)William Forrest was an English Catholic priest who stood close enough to the demolition of St Frideswide's Priory to watch Cardinal Wolsey's new college rise…
- Michael FlandersMichael Henry Flanders stood six feet three inches tall, was a fine oarsman and quarter-miler, and by the time he reached Oxford his contemporaries had no…
- William CamdenWilliam Camden was born in London on the 2nd of May 1551, into a city that had barely begun to reckon with its own past.
- Philip SidneyPhilip Sidney died on the 17th of October 1586, at the age of 31, from a wound to the thigh he had received at the Battle of Zutphen.
- John RuskinJohn Ruskin was born on the 8th of February 1819 at 54 Hunter Street, Brunswick Square, London, into a household where a wine importer father read Byron…
- John DowlandJohn Dowland was buried at St Ann's, Blackfriars, London, on the 20th of February 1626, and almost nothing of what he experienced in his final years found…
- Gabriel Turville-PetreGabriel Turville-Petre entered the world at Bosworth Hall in Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire on the 25th of March 1908.
- Donald SwannDonald Ibrahim Swann was born on the 30th of September 1923 in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales, the son of a Russian doctor and a Turkmen-Russian nurse who…
- A. J. AyerA. J. Ayer was 26 years old when he published a book that told most of philosophy to sit down and be quiet. Language, Truth, and Logic, which appeared in…
- Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron HollandHenry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland, inherited a barony before he could speak. In December 1774, at one year old, he became the 3rd Baron Holland…
- A. L. RowseA. L. Rowse was born on the 4th of December 1903 in Tregonissey, a village near St Austell in Cornwall, the son of a china clay worker.