Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/July 8

Births

• 1752 – Morton Eden, 1st Baron Henley (Christ Church), diplomat
• 1851 – Arthur Evans (Brasenose), archeologist
• 1888 – Henry Brougham, Olympic medal winner in rackets
• 1895 – Sir Gordon Touche, 1st Baronet (University), barrister and politician
• 1924 – Elaine Kellett-Bowman (St Anne's), Conservative politician
• 1926 – Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar (Balliol), Conservative politician
• 1932 – Brian Walden (Queen's and Nuffield), Labour politician and journalist
• 1964 – Graham Steele (St Edmund Hall), Canadian politician
• 1966 – Guto Harri (Queen's), former Communications Director for the Mayor of London

Deaths

• 1716 – Robert South (Christ Church), clergyman
• 1822 – Percy Bysshe Shelley (University), poet
• 1858 – Lennox Williams (St John's), Bishop of Quebec 1915–35
• 1881 – Henry Octavius Coxe (Worcester), Bodley's Librarian 1860–81
• 1900 – John Baird (Christ Church), Scottish politician
• 1904 – William Thomas Charley (St John's), politician and judge at the Old Bailey
• 1933 – Anthony Hope (Balliol), author of The Prisoner of Zenda
• 1935 – Guy Nickalls (Magdalen), Olympic gold medal winner in rowing
• 1944 – Thomas Strong (Christ Church), Vice-Chancellor of Oxford 1913–17 and Bishop of Oxford 1925–37
• 1957 – Henry Grattan Nolan, Canadian lawyer
• 1997 – Allen Winter (University), Bishop of St Arnaud 1951–73
• 2002 – Patrick Rodger (Christ Church), Bishop of Oxford 1978–86
• 2004 – Mike Woodin (Wolfson and Balliol), Principal Speaker of the Green Party of England and Wales 1997–2001
• 2008 – John Templeton (Balliol), stock market investor and philanthropist, commemorated in the name of Green Templeton College