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* '''[[16 December|16]]''' – In an annual Christmas rugby match at [[King Edward's School]], alumni at [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and Cambridge play against the School's First XV. This year, the alumni [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], [[Christopher Wiseman]], [[Thomas Kenneth Barnsley|T.K. Barnsley]], [[Robert Gilson]], [[Geoffrey Bache Smith|G.B. Smith]] and [[Sidney Barrowclough]] lose 14-10. | * '''[[16 December|16]]''' – In an annual Christmas rugby match at [[King Edward's School]], alumni at [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and Cambridge play against the School's First XV. This year, the alumni [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], [[Christopher Wiseman]], [[Thomas Kenneth Barnsley|T.K. Barnsley]], [[Robert Gilson]], [[Geoffrey Bache Smith|G.B. Smith]] and [[Sidney Barrowclough]] lose 14-10. | ||
* '''?''' - ''[[From the many-willow'd margin of the immemorial Thames]]'' is published in the [[Stapledon Magazine]]. | * '''?''' - ''[[From the many-willow'd margin of the immemorial Thames]]'' is published in the [[Stapledon Magazine]]. | ||
* '''?''' - "Oxford Letter", [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s report on former King Edward's pupils at [[University of Oxford|Oxford]], is published in ''[[The King Edward's School Chronicle#June 1911|The King Edward's School Chronicle]]''. | |||
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* '''?''' - Tolkien contacts [[Edith Tolkien|Edith Bratt]], who subsequently breaks off her engagement with another man. | * '''?''' - Tolkien contacts [[Edith Tolkien|Edith Bratt]], who subsequently breaks off her engagement with another man. |
Revision as of 15:39, 26 July 2011
Tolkien-related events that took place in 1913.
January
- 3 - J.R.R. Tolkien's twenty-first birthday.
- 7 - Actor Francis de Wolff is born.
October
- 11 - Actor John Bryning is born.
November
- 19 - Exeter College Smoker, featuring a cover illustration by J.R.R. Tolkien, is published.
December
- 1 - J.R.R. Tolkien is elected president of Stapledon Society, a student body at Exeter College.
- 16 – In an annual Christmas rugby match at King Edward's School, alumni at Oxford and Cambridge play against the School's First XV. This year, the alumni J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Wiseman, T.K. Barnsley, Robert Gilson, G.B. Smith and Sidney Barrowclough lose 14-10.
- ? - From the many-willow'd margin of the immemorial Thames is published in the Stapledon Magazine.
- ? - "Oxford Letter", J.R.R. Tolkien's report on former King Edward's pupils at Oxford, is published in The King Edward's School Chronicle.
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- ? - Tolkien contacts Edith Bratt, who subsequently breaks off her engagement with another man.
- ? - Tolkien takes a Second Class in exams and transfers from classics to English, with emphasis in philology, and formally studies Old Norse.
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