" Francis Christopher Oakley, Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of the History of Ideas, was inducted President of Williams on October 5, 1985. "

" Oakley has been a member of the college faculty since 1961, was Dean of the Faculty from 1977 to 1984, and resumed teaching after retiring from the presidency at the end of 1993 "

https://specialcollections.williams.edu/williams-history/presidents/oakley-francis-christopher/

" Born in England in 1931 of Irish immigrant parents and raised in Liverpool, Professor Oakley has vivid memories of the World War II wartime Blitz there and, while his elementary school was closed because of the bombing, of being homeschooled by his mother whose own education in a tiny village on the edge of Connemara had ended at the age of 14.  "

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Christopher_Oakley