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Articles from Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives about the university and people associated with it:
- ... that Welsh politician David Lloyd George (pictured) said that he would prize no honour more highly than his Honorary Fellowship of Jesus College?
- ... that Thomas Johnes planted three million trees to make his Hafod Uchtryd estate picturesque?
- ... that the position of Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at Oxford was endowed by John Ireland, who was Dean of Westminster for more than 25 years?
- ... that deforestation in Staffordshire inspired contributions from Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward to a book of poetry about Needwood Forest by Francis Mundy?
- ... that medieval scholar Erika Cheetham interpreted Nostradamus' writings as prophecies of Napoleon, Hitler, and the establishment of modern Israel?