Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/December 14

Births

• 1777 – Du Pre Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon (Christ Church), Governor of the Cape Colony
• 1807 – Thomas William Webb (Magdalen), priest and astronomer
• 1812 – Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning (Christ Church), Governor-General of India
• 1849 – Charles Buller Heberden (Balliol), Principal of Brasenose College
• 1860 – Robert Braddell (Brasenose), barrister and politician in Northern Ireland
• 1862 – Henry Yule Oldham (Jesus), geographer
• 1888 – Robert Braddell, cricketer
• 1915 – Anthony Kershaw (Balliol), barrister and Conservative MP
• 1919 – John Grindrod (Queen's), Archbishop of Brisbane 1980–1989
• 1930 – David R. Harris, archaeologist
• 1948 – Kim Beazley (Balliol), Leader of the Australian Labor Party
• 1960 – Stephen Hester (Lady Margaret Hall), Chief Executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group
• 1979 – Gwyneth Glyn (Jesus), Welsh musician and poet

Deaths

• 1710 – Henry Aldrich (Christ Church), Dean of Christ Church and architect
• 1716 – William Trumbull (St John's), lawyer and politician
• 1735 – Thomas Tanner (Queen's), Bishop of St Asaph 1732–1735
• 1776 – Francis Geary (Balliol), army officer
• 1887 – Alexander Heriot Mackonochie (Wadham), Anglican priest
• 1948 – Alfred Cochrane (Hertford), cricketer and writer
• 1948 – R. O. Morris (New College), composer and music professor
• 1952 – Francis Heiser (Jesus), Anglican priest and educator
• 1997 – Owen Barfield (Wadham), author and philosopher
• 2004 – Carsten Peter Thiede (Queen's), German biblical scholar

Other events

• 1955 – Hugh Gaitskell (New College) becomes Leader of the Opposition.
• 2001 – Iris, a film about Oxford academics Iris Murdoch and John Bayley, is released.