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

Births

• 1751 – David Richards (Jesus), Welsh poet ("Dafydd Ionawr")
• 1779 – Charles O'Neill, 1st Earl O'Neill (Christ Church), Irish peer and politician
• 1840 – Ernest Wilberforce (Exeter), Bishop of Chichester 1896–1907
• 1843 – Mike Mitchell, cricketer
• 1853 – Charles Gore (Balliol and Trinity), Bishop of Oxford 1911–19
• 1857 – Sidney Low (Pembroke), journalist and historian
• 1894 – Charles Langbridge Morgan (Brasenose), playwright and novelist
• 1919 – John Russell (Magdalen), art critic
• 1937 – John Crow, Governor of the Bank of Canada 1987–94
• 1940 – Gillian Shephard (St Hilda's), politician

Other events

• 1901 – Edward VII (Christ Church) becomes king on the death of Queen Victoria

Deaths

• 1763 – John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville (Christ Church), Lord President of the Council 1751–63
• 1903 – Augustus Hare (University), writer
• 1920 –
  Provost of Eton
  (1909–18)
• 1960 – Peter Floud (Wadham), civil servant
• 1963 – Matthew Le Marinel (Jesus), Dean of Jersey 1937–59
• 1967 – Sir Idris Bell (Oriel), papyrologist
• 1992 – Sir Charles Hyde Villiers (New College), soldier and businessman
• 1994 –
  Benedictine
  monk
• 1995 – Sir John Waller, 7th Baronet (Worcester), poet
• 2001 – Anne Burns (St Hugh's), aeronautical engineer and glider pilot