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The Oxford Union Society, commonly referred to as the Oxford Union, is a debating society in the city of Oxford, England, whose membership is drawn primarily from the University of Oxford. Founded in 1823, it is one of Britain's oldest university unions and considered [ by whom? ] one of the world's most prestigious private students' societies ...
The 3rd Marquess of Salisbury was Union Secretary in Michaelmas 1848. Harold Macmillan was Secretary of the Union in Hilary 1914, then Junior Treasurer (elected unopposed, which was then very unusual) in Trinity 1914; but for the war he would "almost certainly" have been President. [155] S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike was Treasurer in Trinity 1924. [156]
G. James Galbraith (British politician) Cyril Garbett; Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner; Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury; James Milnes Gaskell
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The Oxford Union debating chamber. The King and Country Debate was a debate on 9 February 1933 at the Oxford Union Society. The motion presented, "That this House will under no circumstances fight for its King and country", passed with 275 votes for the motion and 153 against it. [1] The motion would later be named the Oxford Oath or the Oxford ...
The University of Oxford is the setting for numerous works of fiction. Oxford was mentioned in fiction as early as 1400 when Chaucer, in Canterbury Tales, referred to a "Clerk [student] of Oxenford". [311] Mortimer Proctor argues the first campus novel was The Adventures of Oxymel Classic, Esq; Once an Oxford Scholar (1768). [312]
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The family name changed from Oxnam to Oxenham in 1834, when Henry was four years old. From Harrow, Oxenham went to Balliol College, Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford Union in Trinity term, 1852. [citation needed] He took Anglican orders in 1854, but became a Roman Catholic in 1857. [2]