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<html> <head> <title>Oxford, Oxfordshire, England</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Oxford, Oxfordshire, England LOCATION Official Website: <a href="http://www.oxford.gov.uk/">http://www.oxford.gov.uk/</a> Population: 143,016 (2001 census)The town in which Oxford University is located. "Oxford had already seen five centuries of borough life before a student appeared within its streets... The university found Oxford a busy, prosperous borough, and reduced it to a cluster of lodging-houses. It found it among the first of English municipalities, and it so utterly crushed its freedom that the recovery of some of the commonest rights of self-government has only been brought about by recent legislation." (John Richard Greene, 19th c. historian). SCHOOLS <table border=1 class="bordered"> <tr><th>School</th><th>Founded</th></tr> <tr><td><a href="/edu/843/000111510/">Dragon School</a></td><td><center>1877</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/edu/486/000068282/">Oxford University</a></td><td><center> </center></td></tr></table> MUSEUM <table border=1 class="bordered"> <tr><th>Museum</th><th>Founded</th></tr> <tr><td><a href="/org/900/000117549/">Ashmolean Museum</a></td><td><center>1643</center></td></tr></table> BIRTHS <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_births"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/246/000173724/">Heather Angel</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Feb-1909</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Dec-1986</tt></td> <td>Lifeboat</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/945/000196357/">Lennox Berkeley</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-May-1903</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Dec-1989</tt></td> <td>Stabat Mater</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/037/000096746/">Sir William Davenant</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1606</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Apr-1668</tt></td> <td>Gondibert</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/355/000093076/">Orlando Gibbons</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1583</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jun-1625</tt></td> <td>Late Tudor composer and organist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/988/000030898/">Colin Greenwood</a></td> <td><center>Bassist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jun-1969</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Bassist for Radiohead</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/986/000030896/">Jonny Greenwood</a></td> <td><center>Guitarist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Nov-1971</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Guitarist for Radiohead</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/003/000100700/">J. B. S. Haldane</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Nov-1892</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Dec-1964</tt></td> <td>Haldane's principle</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/311/000130918/">Tom Hollander</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Aug-1967</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Gosford Park</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/856/000022790/">P. D. James</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Aug-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Nov-2014</tt></td> <td>Adam Dalgliesh series, etc.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/383/000350330/">Theo James</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Dec-1984</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Jed Harper on Bedlam</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/243/000396052/">Lisa Jardine</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Apr-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Oct-2015</tt></td> <td>Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/173/000160690/">Toby Jones</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Sep-1967</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Voice of Dobby the Elf</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/551/000100251/">John C. Kendrew</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Mar-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Aug-1997</tt></td> <td>Determined structure of myoglobin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/283/000051130/">Hugh Laurie</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jun-1959</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Jeeves and Wooster, House</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/526/000402317/">Yasmin Le Bon</a></td> <td><center>Model</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Oct-1964</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Fashion model, wife of Simon Le Bon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/779/000103470/">Mark Lester</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jul-1958</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Oliver!</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/205/000136794/">Miriam Margolyes</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-May-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Age of Innocence</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/987/000030897/">Ed O'Brien</a></td> <td><center>Guitarist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Apr-1968</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Guitar, shaky things for Radiohead</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/243/000099943/">"Legs" Larry Smith</a></td> <td><center>Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jan-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Hello Sausage</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/798/000113459/">E. P. Thompson</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Feb-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Aug-1993</tt></td> <td>The Making of the English Working Class</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/272/000103960/">Anthony à Wood</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Dec-1632</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Nov-1695</tt></td> <td>Oxford historian</td> </tr> </table> DEATHS <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_deaths"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/838/000396647/">Gerald Aylmer</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Apr-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Dec-2000</tt></td> <td>The King's Servants</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/582/000114240/">Roger Bacon</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1220</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1292</tt></td> <td>Doctor Mirabilis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/228/000100925/">John Bainbridge</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1582</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Nov-1643</tt></td> <td>Description of the late Comet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/080/000196489/">William Beveridge</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Mar-1879</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Mar-1963</tt></td> <td>Social Insurance and Allied Services</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/665/000115320/">Robert Bridges</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Oct-1844</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Apr-1930</tt></td> <td>Prometheus the Firegiver</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/315/000400112/">P. A. Brunt</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jun-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Nov-2005</tt></td> <td>Social Conflicts in the Roman Republic</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/194/000102885/">Robert Burton</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1577</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jan-1640</tt></td> <td>The Anatomy of Melancholy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/552/000114210/">Joyce Cary</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Dec-1888</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Mar-1957</tt></td> <td>The Horse's Mouth</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/863/000164371/">Anthony Crosland</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Aug-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Feb-1977</tt></td> <td>UK Foreign Secretary, 1976-77</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/055/000168548/">Richard Dalitz</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Feb-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jan-2006</tt></td> <td>Dalitz pairs and Dalitz plots</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/129/000399926/">R. R. Davies</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Aug-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-May-2005</tt></td> <td> Conquest, Coexistence and Change</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/369/000181823/">Francis Edgeworth</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1845</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Feb-1926</tt></td> <td>Pure Theory of Taxation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/790/000159313/">Richard Ellmann</a></td> <td><center>Critic</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Mar-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-May-1987</tt></td> <td>James Joyce</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/622/000117271/">Charles Elton</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Mar-1900</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-May-1991</tt></td> <td>Animal Ecology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/329/000099032/">Edward Evans-Pritchard</a></td> <td><center>Anthropologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Sep-1902</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Sep-1973</tt></td> <td>Theories of Primitive Religion</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/375/000401169/">Samuel E. 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James</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Aug-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Nov-2014</tt></td> <td>Adam Dalgliesh series, etc.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/957/000170447/">Leszek Kolakowski</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Oct-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jul-2009</tt></td> <td>Polish refugee philosopher</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/461/000108137/">Patrick Lichfield</a></td> <td><center>Photographer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Apr-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Nov-2005</tt></td> <td>Prominent British photographer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/029/000365928/">Garrett Mattingly</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-May-1900</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Dec-1962</tt></td> <td>Renaissance Diplomacy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/439/000104127/">Iris Murdoch</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jul-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1999</tt></td> <td>The Sea, the Sea</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/937/000113598/">Otto Neurath</a></td> <td><center>Sociologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Dec-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Dec-1945</tt></td> <td>Vienna Circle positivist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/622/000096334/">Walter Pater</a></td> <td><center>Critic</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Aug-1839</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jul-1894</tt></td> <td>Marius the Epicurean</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/198/000099898/">Rudolf Peierls</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jun-1907</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Sep-1995</tt></td> <td>Frisch-Peierls Memorandum</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/237/000113895/">Barbara Pym</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jun-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jan-1980</tt></td> <td>Some Tame Gazelle</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/948/000099651/">Abdus Salam</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jan-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Nov-1996</tt></td> <td>Electroweak Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/306/000111970/">Moira Shearer</a></td> <td><center>Dancer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jan-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jan-2006</tt></td> <td>The Red Shoes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/656/000396465/">Ronald Syme</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Mar-1903</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Sep-1989</tt></td> <td>The Roman Revolution</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/800/000113461/">Nikolaas Tinbergen</a></td> <td><center>Zoologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Apr-1907</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Dec-1988</tt></td> <td>Grand Master of Ethology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/599/000087338/">John Wallis</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Nov-1616</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Oct-1703</tt></td> <td>Arithmetica Infinitorum</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/141/000103829/">Thomas Warton</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jan-1728</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-May-1790</tt></td> <td>English Poet Laureate, 1785-90</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/834/000396643/">Penry Williams</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Feb-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Apr-2013</tt></td> <td>The Tudor Regime</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/272/000103960/">Anthony à Wood</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Dec-1632</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Nov-1695</tt></td> <td>Oxford historian</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/700/000117349/">John Zachary Young</a></td> <td><center>Zoologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Mar-1907</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jul-1997</tt></td> <td>British zoological neurologist</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=69653" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2017 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/284/000000284/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/284/284/s284.jpg" width=128> Buffalo Bills</a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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