Articles from Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives about the university and people associated with it:

... that Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker, a junior Foreign Office minister during the Suez Crisis in 1956, was sacked by new Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (pictured) in 1957 for his private opposition to the invasion of Egypt?
... that English headmistress Olive Willis founded Downe House School, where her chauffeur-architect-engineer slept in her bathroom?
... that Sir William Gregory was appointed Speaker of the House of Commons in 1679 after only a year in parliament?
... that Giles Clarke, chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, studied Arabic at the University of Damascus?
... that the Welsh Tractarian priest John David Jenkins, known as the "Rail men's Apostle", became President of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants?

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