Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/December 9

Births

• 1561 – Edwin Sandys (Corpus Christi), founder member of the Virginia Company of London
• 1839 – Frederick Halsey (Christ Church), Conservative MP
• 1846 – William Humble (Exeter), clergyman and cricketer
• 1863 – John Burnet (Balliol and Merton), classical scholar
• 1891 – Malcolm Mercer Hollett, member of the Canadian Senate
• 1905 – R. V. Vernède (Hertford and St Peter's), writer and colonial administrator in India
• 1909 – Andrew Way (Christ Church), police officer
• 1913 – Peter Smithers (Magdalen), Conservative MP
• 1926 – Peter Rees, Baron Rees (Christ Church), Chief Secretary to the Treasury
• 1929 – Bob Hawke (University), Prime Minister of Australia 1983–1991
• 1943 – Joanna Trollope (St Hugh's), novelist
• 1944 – Roger Short (University), diplomat
• 1948 – Jonathan Sumption (Magdalen), barrister and medieval historian
• 1963 – Crown Princess Masako (Balliol), Japanese princess
• 1969 – Raphaël Rouquier (Magdalen), Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics at Oxford

Deaths

• 1781 – Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (Christ Church), landowner in Virginia
• 1874 – Benjamin Bond Cabbell (Oriel), politician and philanthropist
• 1901 – Clement Walker Heneage (Christ Church), winner of the Victoria Cross during the Indian Mutiny
• 1925 – Cosby Godolphin Trench (Corpus Christi), army officer and magistrate in Ireland
• 1948 – Sir Tim O'Brien, 3rd Baronet (New Inn Hall), England international cricketer
• 1995 – Gillian Rose (St Hilda's), philosopher and sociologist
• 2004 – Peter Emery (Oriel), Conservative MP
• 2006 – Peter Derow (Wadham), classical scholar

Other events

• 1886 – Edmund Campion (St John's, and in whose honour Campion Hall is named) is beatified by Pope Leo XIII
• 1937 – Kenneth E. Kirk (Magdalen and Keble) is installed as Bishop of Oxford