Oxford's Gifts to the World
Not being from Oxford I can boast on its behalf unrestrained by any feigned modesty.

Oxford's name has been attached to an accent (supposedly posh), a colour (dark blue) and a symphony (by Haydn), as well as styles of shoe, shirting, trousers, cloth, chair, bath, picture-frame and philosophical discourse. In the 1830s the university was riven by me Oxford Movement. In die 1920s Frank Buchman's moralising mission became known as the Oxford Group, though it had little indeed to do with either the university or the city. (The university's extensive website is entirely devoid of reference to either Buchman or his group, later known as Moral Rearmament.) Oxford can fairly claim to be the birthplace/midwife/crucible/catalyst of: the Arthurian legends, the English Bible and die Douai Bible, Anglicanism and Methodism, the Royal Society, the Pre-Raphaelites and Aestheticism, Alice in Wonderland, The Chronicles ofNamia and The Lord of the Rings, the OED and the DNB, Oxfam and Mensa, penicillin, die sub-four minute mile and Inspector Morse. Oxford alumni include twenty-five British prime ministers and almost a hundred archbishops, plus four winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature (Galsworthy, Eliot, Golding and Naipaul) and three winners of the Nobel Peace Prize — which has also been awarded to two of its faculty. Christ Church alone has produced sixteen prime ministers, not to mention John Locke, Lord Shaftesbury and Lewis Carroll.

University College can boast prime ministers Atdee and Wilson of Britain, Dr K.A. Busia of Ghana, Bob Hawke of Australia and President William Jefferson Clinton of the United States.
The permanent academic community includes over seventy Fellows of the Royal Society and over a hundred Fellows of the British Academy. Oxford graduates account' for over a fifth of the entries in Britain's Who's Who. Its roll-call of international alumni includes Benazir Bhutto, Rupert Murdoch and the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Japan.

There are over 30,000 overseas Oxford alumni, a third in the USA, over 2,000 in Canada and the same number in Australia, plus more than a thousand in each of Germany and France.

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Whether or not Britain can claim to have a 'special relationship' with the United States, Oxford certainly has.

The Founding Fathers United States didn't go to Oxford but they read Locke and Blac - who did. Five founders of American states were Oxford men and it was an Oxford man who founded the Smithsonian. American generosity has made possible the founding of entire colleges — Ruskin, St Catherine's, Green and Templeton, not to mention funding the New Bodleian extension and the Law Library. The Rhodes Scholarship programme inspired the equally influential Fulbright programme and nowadays Americans account for some 10 per cent of all Oxford students.
Oxford as a city, rather than as a university, can claim credit for Frank Cooper's Oxford marmalade, the MG, the Morris Minor and the 'Mini' car. It is the birthplace of the thriller writer P.D. James and of master art forger Eric Hebborn.

Ironically, but perhaps inevitably, as an unanticipated 'Motopolis' Oxford was an early pioneer of the Park-and-Ride system. It followed York in producing a citizen's charter to improve the quality of public service delivery.

In Helen House, opened in 1982 in the grounds of All Saints' Convent, Leopold Street, the city established the first ever hospice specifically for children.