"simple grossness"". Piggate ""Piggate"" refers to an uncorroborated anecdote that during his university years former British prime minister David Cameron put a ""private part of his anatomy"" into a dead pig's mouth as part of an initiation ceremony for the Piers Gaveston Society. The anecdote was reported by Michael Ashcroft and Isabel Oakeshott in their unauthorised biography of Cameron, ""Call Me Dave"", attributing the story to an anonymous Member of Parliament who was a ""distinguished Oxford contemporary"" of Cameron's. Extracts from the book were published in the ""Daily Mail"" on 21 September 2015, prior to its publication. Downing Street sources"
"Oxford in 1579, but left the university without taking a degree. In 1584 he was elected Member of Parliament for Steyning. He went on military service with his father and brother in the Low Countries in 1585, and later saw some in Ireland. He was knighted at Kilkenny in Ireland by the lord deputy, Sir William Fitz-William, on 26 October 1589. Shirley later came to the court. In the summer of 1591 he made a secret marriage to one of Queen Elizabeth's maids of honour and when the queen heard of it, she promptly committed him to the Marshalsea Prison."
"the university of Oxford in 1624 when Pembroke College was named in his honour. Herbert's father negotiated a marriage between the young Herbert and Bridget de Vere, the granddaughter of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. Offered 3,000 pounds and an annuity to begin at Burghley's death, the prospective groom wanted immediate payment of the annuity. The negotiations failed, and he remained single. At the age of twenty, he had an affair with Mary Fitton (who has been suggested as a possible model for the Dark Lady of the sonnets), whom he impregnated. Admitting paternity, he refused to marry her and"
"Oxford. Pictures of her in attendance, which were posted on the university's website, have now been removed. The ceremony was also attended by an undercover reporter and actor from the BBC. The CMI ""severed all links"" to the IIU and that the University of Oxford banned the IIU from using its premises again. A Malaysian, described by the ""Sunday Star"" as a ""prominent public figure"" and ""leading academic"", who had received an honorary degree from Irish International University in 2001 was surprised to be told (in 2009) that the university was considered to be a scam. He told a newspaper"
"In 2014/15, ""Exeposé"" continued with its focus on investigative journalism, under the editorship of Harrison Jones and Gemma Joyce. In September 2014, the paper reported on undercover footage of a University Sports team participating in an initiation-style ceremony that took place on University premises. They reported that the footage showed first year students being intimidated, forced to down shots and kiss a dead eel at an event that appeared to break the Athletic Union's code of conduct on numerous counts. The story was picked up by the ""Daily Mail"" and chosen by the Huffington Post as one of their 'Student"
"university to approve of the King's divorce. A premature expression of Lutheran views is said to have caused his departure from Oxford and even his imprisonment, but the records are silent on these sufferings which do not harmonise with his appointment as Master of the Royal Foundation at Eton. In 1533 he appears as author of an ode on the coronation of Anne Boleyn, in 1535 he graduated B.D. at Cambridge, proceeding D.D. in 1537, and in the same year subscribing the ""Institution of a Christian Man"". In 1540 he was one of the fifteen divines to whom were referred"
"""private part of his anatomy"" into a dead pig's mouth as part of an initiation ceremony for the Piers Gaveston Society. The allegation was attributed to a Member of Parliament who was a ""distinguished Oxford contemporary"" of Cameron's. Ashcroft and Oakeshott failed to receive a response from the purported owner of an alleged photograph of the incident, and since the extract's publication no corroborating evidence has been produced to support the allegation. A spokesperson for the Prime Minister said that they did not ""need to dignify the book by offering any comment"", while friends reported him saying that the claim"
"naming.' ""1587? ""Massacre of St. Bartholomew (there is a mistake here in the book, in fact 1572)""! 1713? ""Treaty of Utrecht"" – 1520? ""Field of the Cloth of Gold""! and so on."" Orwell also claims that he was accepted as a boarder at St Cyprians—at half of the usual fees—so that he might earn a scholarship that would look good in the school's publicity, and that his training relied heavily on the use of beatings, while the rich boys received preferential treatment and were exempted from corporal punishment. The essay lashes out at the hypocrisy of the Edwardian society in"
"Brown started a major political row about higher education (referred to as the Laura Spence Affair) when he accused the University of Oxford of elitism in its admissions procedures. He described the University's decision not to offer a place to state school pupil Laura Spence as ""absolutely outrageous"" and implied its decision was based on her background rather than her academic potential. This started a major and hotly argued row in the media in which Oxford strongly denied these accusations. With his comments, Brown can arguably be credited with raising widening participation to higher education up the political agenda. However,"
"outside Croft's inauguration as Bishop of Oxford on 30 September 2016. One of them claimed he had told Croft three times in 2012 and 2013 when Croft was formerly Bishop of Sheffield of his rape by a serving priest, but the bishop and other senior figures had failed to respond or take action despite the abuser still being alive. The cover of the protest brochure handed out to the public pictured all six bishops who the survivor claimed had failed to respond, including John Sentamu, Archbishop of York. The survivor commented to the ""Church Times"" that he was angry that"
"described the interview as ""the hardest interview of [her] life"", and received an offer of AAA in her A Levels. In the same year, prospective Chemistry student Brian White faced deportation at the hands of the Home Office, but was able to take up his place at the college. Also in 2017, alumnus Paul McClean, a 24-year-old Financial Times journalist who had reported on the scale of treaty renegotiation necessitated by Brexit, was killed by a crocodile while on holiday in Sri Lanka. Lady Margaret Hall is the only Oxford college to offer a foundation year; the scheme recruits students"
"is relatively recent. In William Thackeray's novel ""Pendennis"", published in 1850, the main character attends the fictional Boniface College, Oxbridge. According to the ""Oxford English Dictionary"", this is the first recorded instance of the word. Virginia Woolf used it, citing Thackeray, in her 1929 essay ""A Room of One's Own"". By 1957 the term was used in the ""Times Educational Supplement"" and in ""Universities Quarterly"" by 1958. When expanded, the universities are almost always referred to as ""Oxford and Cambridge"", the order in which they were founded. A notable exception is Japan's Cambridge and Oxford Society, probably arising from the"
"Oxford Martyrs The Oxford Martyrs were Protestants tried for heresy in 1555 and burnt at the stake in Oxford, England, for their religious beliefs and teachings, during the Marian persecution in England. The three martyrs were the Anglican bishops Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The three were tried at University Church of St Mary the Virgin, the official church of the University of Oxford on the High Street. The men were imprisoned at the former Bocardo Prison near the extant St Michael at the Northgate church (at the north gate of the city walls)"
"Cameron, who at the time was British Prime Minister had placed a ""private part"" into the mouth of a dead pig as part of a university initiation rite. Brooker has called the event a ""coincidence, albeit a quite bizarre one"", and was quite perturbed when he first heard the allegations: ""I did genuinely for a moment wonder if reality was a simulation, whether it exists only to trick me"", he said in an interview. Several news reports compared Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign to ""The Waldo Moment"", a 2013 episode in the second series; later, in September 2016, Brooker also"
"Union. Throughout his time at Oxford, Driberg followed his passion for Anglican rituals by regularly attending Mass at Pusey House, an independent religious institution with a mission to ""[restore] the Church of England's Catholic life and witness"". In spite of the prevalent Oxford homoerotic ethos, his sexual energies were largely devoted to casual encounters with working-class men, rather than to relationships with his fellow undergraduates. He experienced sexual relations with only one don, whom he met outside the university, unaware of the latter's identity. One of Driberg's elaborate hoaxes was a concert called ""Homage to Beethoven"", which featured megaphones, typewriters"
"Jacob Barnet affair The Jacob Barnet affair occurred in 1612 when a Jewish teacher by the name of Jacob Barnet was arrested and imprisoned by officials of the University of Oxford for changing his mind about being baptised. Throughout the Middle Ages, and until the 1850s the University of Oxford required all students and the faculty staff to be Christians and members of the established church (the Church of England). In addition, Edward I's ban on Jews living in England remained in force until Cromwell overturned it. Nevertheless, a few visiting Jewish Hebrew teachers taught students at the university privately,"
"direction of the party. In 2015 Ashcroft released ""Call Me Dave"", an unauthorised biography of Cameron written with journalist Isabel Oakeshott, which attracted significant media attention for various lurid allegations about Cameron's time at university. The book includes an anonymous anecdote about Cameron, now referred to as Piggate. No evidence for the anecdote has been produced. Many commentators have described the accusations as a ""revenge job"" by Ashcroft, who was not offered a senior role in government when Cameron came to power in 2010. Ashcroft initially claimed the book was ""not about settling scores"", while Oakeshott said that they had"
"By the time the Queen had left Oxford, Campion had earned the patronage of the powerful William Cecil and also the Earl of Leicester, tipped by some to be future husband of the young Queen. When Sir Thomas White, the founder of the college, was buried in 1567, it fell to Campion to give the Latin oration. Religious difficulties then arose; but at the persuasion of Richard Cheyney, Bishop of Gloucester, although holding Catholic doctrines, he received Holy Orders in 1564 as a deacon in the Anglican Church. Inwardly """"he took a remorse of conscience and detestation of mind."""" Rumours"
"his continued championing of Wilde, a large photograph of whom decorated his rooms. He and his friends were suspected of conducting mock Masses and Confessions; After four terms the Master, John Mitchinson, a former bishop of Barbados, dismissed Wilkinson and his friends from the college on the grounds of supposed immorality and blasphemy. After the journalist and former Liberal MP Henry Labouchère had campaigned in his journal ""Truth"" against what he called ""the Varsity Star Chamber"", Wilkinson was admitted in 1902 to St John's College, Cambridge. His stay at Cambridge was happier and more fruitful; after his Oxford experiences he"
"that the scorch marks from the flames can still be seen on the doors of Balliol College (now rehung between the Front Quadrangle and Garden Quadrangle). Oxford Martyrs The Oxford Martyrs were Protestants tried for heresy in 1555 and burnt at the stake in Oxford, England, for their religious beliefs and teachings, during the Marian persecution in England. The three martyrs were the Anglican bishops Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The three were tried at University Church of St Mary the Virgin, the official church of the University of Oxford on the High Street."
"Oxford on 12 July 1580. He proceeded B.D. at Cambridge in 1587, was elected a college preacher at St. John's the same year, and was created D.D. in 1592. He became Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1593, was installed Archdeacon of Lincoln on 30 August 1595, and was collated to the prebend of Thorngate in the church of Lincoln on 11 December 1595. He was admitted Master of St. John's College, Cambridge, on 22 December 1595, in what as a highly politicised election manipulated by Lord Burghley: the Fellows had a shortlist including Henry Alvey, Clayton, John Ireton, John"
"and that as far as he was aware, all ORT participants were satisfied. The company defended its selection criteria, and reported that its disclaimer, which is on its website, uses ""the exact wording that was provided to us by the legal office of the University of Oxford several years ago."" A spokeswoman dismissed the critics as ""a few nameless bloggers."" The ORT sued Sloan Mahone, a lecturer in the history of medicine at Oxford, after she emailed invitees and posted on the ""Chronicle of Higher Education"" website. The ORT complained that Mahone had described the ORT as a ""scam, a"
"the Oxford movement, there gradually arose a much smaller group which tended towards submission to the supremacy of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1845, the university censured a tract entitled ""Ideal of a Christian Church"" and its author, the pro-Roman Catholic theologian W. G. Ward, on which basis was imputed the moniker ""Ideal Ward"". The year 1850 saw the victory of the Evangelical cleric George Cornelius Gorham in a celebrated legal action against church authorities. Consequently, some Anglicans of Anglo-Catholic churchmanship were received into the Roman Catholic Church, while others, such as Mark Pattison, embraced Latitudinarian Anglicanism, and yet others,"
"""purely malicious gossip"". Young and Cameron attended Oxford together. On 21 September 2015, James Kirkup in ""The Daily Telegraph"" wrote, ""Toby Young, a Telegraph writer, [...] has investigated Mr Cameron’s university antics and found no evidence of the pig incident. 'I think it’s a figment of someone’s imagination,' he says."" Within minutes of the ""Daily Mail"" posting an article about the anecdote, #piggate, #snoutrage and #hameron became trending topics on Twitter. The ""Piggate"" name was quickly accepted by the media reporting on it (scandals are often given a name suffixed with ""-gate""). This example of social media distraction was so"
"by American Methodists at the beginning of the 20th century. As is common with Oxford colleges, the College has a long-standing rivalry with neighbour Brasenose College (which was also founded by a later Bishop of Lincoln). The two colleges share a tradition revived annually on Ascension Day. The story goes that, centuries ago, as a mob chased students at the University through the town, the Lincoln porter allowed in the Lincoln students but refused entry to the Brasenose member, leaving him to the mercy of the mob. An alternative is that a Lincoln man bested a Brasenose man in a"
"non-degree courses there. Journalists confirmed that O'Donnell was never officially enrolled in the university and only took non-degree courses at Princeton, as she had claimed. Other criticisms involved profiles on LinkedIn and MySpace claiming she had studied at Oxford University in England (a spokesperson for O'Donnell confirmed it was a reference to a certificate she obtained from a course at Oxford overseen by the Phoenix Institute and denies it was presented ""as a course run by Oxford University"") and at the Claremont University in Southern California. O'Donnell's attendance at the Claremont Institute was confirmed, but critics confused this with the"
"an Anglican priest. She has never married nor had any children. In November 2007 on BBC Radio 4 she described how a journalist once produced a profile on her with the assumption that she had had at least ""one sexual relationship"", to which Widdecombe replied: ""Be careful, that's the way you get sued"". When interviewer Jenni Murray asked if she had ever had a sexual relationship, Widdecombe laughed ""it's nobody else's business"". In a 2001 report in ""The Guardian"" it was claimed that she had had a three-year romance while at the University of Oxford. Widdecombe herself confirmed the liaison"
"on the forums of the ""Chronicle of Higher Education"" website by people who said it was trading on the name of Oxford University, and failed to properly inform people invited that it had no formal academic links to the university. Other criticisms were that its selection criteria were poor and that it was a ""vanity conference."" The University told the newspaper that such external events were ""not, as such, authorised or endorsed by the university."" The principal of Harris Manchester College said that although the college provided the company with an office, ""we don't run the ORT in any sense,"""
"Oxford on 9 July 1575, and was incorporated in that degree at Cambridge in 1579. In 1571 he occurs as minister of Battle, Sussex. He was appointed headmaster of Tonbridge School, Kent, by the Skinners' Company of London, a position he held from 1578 to 1588. It is supposed that Sir Robert Heath was one of his pupils. He was a celebrated and powerful preacher, and obtained the vicarage of Tonbridge. He was one of the select groups of Puritans (with Laurence Chaderton, George Gifford, Laurence Humphrey, John Knewstub, Thomas Sampson, and Henry Smith) who preached at Paul's Cross. His"
"There he died the following year. Thomas Swinnerton Thomas Swinnerton (or Swynnerton; died 1554) was an evangelical preacher and author during the English Reformation. Swinnerton was one of the first Englishmen to study at Wittenberg University when he enrolled there in 1526. Later sources claim that he studied at Oxford or Cambridge, but this is unlikely and his contemporary, Bishop John Longland of Lincoln claimed in 1536 that he never attended an English university. By 1531, Swinnerton was back in England, where he was accused of abducting one Eleanor Wakefield, the servant of a wealthy London merchant. According to his"
"and lately publicly disgraced the university.' Although his candidacy was seen by many as a prank, in February, the ""Oxford Student"" editorial declared, 'The anti-establishment figure Andrew Malcolm is becoming the serious contender.' However, despite having the requisite number of Oxford graduate nominators, Malcolm was forced to withdraw from the contest because eight of his signatures had not 'conferred', or been officially given, their Oxford degrees, thereby invalidating his bid. Interviewed in ""Cherwell"", Malcolm said, 'It is puzzling and saddening to find this once-great university going to such extraordinary lengths to stifle free academic debate, especially at a time when"
"Oxford is unique in combining a college chapel and a cathedral in one foundation. Originally the Priory Church of St Frideswide, the building was extended and incorporated into the structure of the Cardinal's College shortly before its refounding as Christ Church in 1546, since when it has functioned as the cathedral of the Diocese of Oxford. The Oxford Martyrs were tried for heresy in 1555 and subsequently burnt at the stake, on what is now Broad Street, for their religious beliefs and teachings. The three martyrs were the bishops Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley, and the archbishop Thomas Cranmer. The"
"a Bachelor of Theology. In 1526, while Ferrar was in Cambridge, a number of students took an interest in the teachings of Martin Luther, and were later to become prominent as reformers and martyrs of the English church. These included Thomas Cranmer, Hugh Latimer, Thomas Bilney and Robert Barnes. They were bold enough to preach new doctrines publicly, but were accused of heresy and forced to conform with the traditional teaching. Also in 1528 the prior of St. Mary's college at Oxford was John Ramsey. Among his books was a copy of Erasmus's ""Enchiridion militis Christiani"" or ""Handbook of the"