Mount
Oxford

John Hart named the peak in 1925 for Oxford University in England, honoring the school his brother Stephen Hart and fellow climber Albert Ellingwood had both attended; Hart recorded the choice in a book he published that year. It was the last of the Collegiate Peaks to be named, decades after neighbors Harvard and Yale, named in 1869, and Columbia, named by Roger Toll in 1916 and adopted in 1922.

The summit was overlooked in earlier surveys of the area, which helps explain why it went unnamed for so long even though it clears 14,000 feet. Oxford's 653 feet of prominence is modest, and a low saddle joining it to taller Mount Belford means the two are almost always climbed together on a single long outing. No independent first-ascent record survives; like many Sawatch summits, it was likely reached by unrecorded parties long before it carried a name.