Sunday, July 15, 2012

Good Company




What draws me to Oxford is its sense of history and the incredible people who have studied there.

Famous Oxford graduates include:
Nicole DeClerck's J R R Tolkien

Authors
Jonathan Swift
Lewis Carroll
C.S. Lewis
J R R Tolkien
Aldous Huxley
Joseph Heller
William Golding



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Unknown Artist John Donne (1595)
Poets 
John Donne
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mathew Arnold
T.S. Eliot
W.H. Auden







Playwright Oscar Wilde
Lexicographer Dr. Samuel Johnson
Physicist Stephen Hawking
Explorer Sir Walter Raleigh


If you want to see a more complete list, check out:

http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/oxford_people/famous_oxonians/index.html

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