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Christ Church, Oxford
This article is about the Oxford college. For other uses, see Christ Church or Christchurch (disambiguation).
Christ Church (Latin: Ædes Christi, the temple or house of Christ, and thus sometimes known as The House), is one of the largest constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England....
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Robert Cooke
Robert Gordon Cooke (29 May 1930 - 6 January 1987) was a British Conservative Party politician.
Cooke was educated at The Downs School, Wraxhall, Harrow School and Christ Church, Oxford. He served as a councillor on Bristol City Council 1954-57 and...
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Michael Moritz
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
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Humphrey Sutherland
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Sir Thomas Smith QC
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Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
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John Wesley
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Anthony Howard
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James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin
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Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
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Fredric Warburg
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William Ewart Gladstone
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George Waldegrave, 7th Earl Waldegrave
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Richard Carew
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Archibald Garrod
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William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
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Robert Carew, 1st Baron Carew
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William Cureton
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Colin Matthew
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Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
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Michael Dummett
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Ian Blair
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John Robert Godley
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Edward Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans
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John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch
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Gabriel Turville-Petre
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George Cornewall Lewis
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Robin Bourne-Taylor
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Philip Purser-Hallard
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George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall
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George Anthony Denison
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Charles Edward Henry Hobhouse
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William Penn
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Hugh Quarshie
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Crispin Tickell
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Charles Williams, Baron Williams of Elvel
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Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning
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William Deakin
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Deakin was educated at Westminster School, then at Christ Church, Oxford, where he began to develop a reputation as one of the most...
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Gareth Evans
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Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
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Lancelot Blackburne
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Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond
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Nigel Lawson
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Sir George Warrender, 4th Baronet
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George Smalridge
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George Smalridge was born at Lichfield, where he received his early education, this being completed at Westminster School and at Christ Church, Oxford.
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Sir Coplestone Bampfylde, 3rd Baronet
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Robert Hooke
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William Douglas-Hamilton, 12th Duke of Hamilton
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Herbert Westfaling
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Peter Warlock
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Peter Fleming
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Martin Mansergh
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Richard Bagot
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Edward Bouverie Pusey
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Radu Florescu
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Michael Flanders
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Anthony Eden
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Adam Blakeman
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Blakeman matriculated (entered college) at Christ Church, Oxford, May 28...
