OXFORDSHIRE BLUE PLAQUES SCHEME

Plaques awarded

The following Oxfordshire Blue Plaques have been erected in the city and county (map). Biographical details are linked to the names below; or follow this pointer (which continues at the foot of each page) to view them all alphabetically Next


Oxford City
  • Ronnie BARKER (1929–2005), actor and comedian
    23 Church Cowley Road, Oxford
  • Richard Meux BENSON (1824–1915), Vicar of Cowley and benefactor,
         founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist

    Former Mission House, 16 Marston Street, Oxford
  • Sir Isaiah BERLIN (1909–1997), historian of ideas
    Headington House, Old High Street, Headington, Oxford
  • John Henry BROOKES (1891–1975), artist, craftsman, educationist
    195 The Slade, Headington, Oxford
  • Jane BURDEN (Mrs William Morris) 1839–1914, Pre-Raphaelite Muse
    St Helen’s Passage, off New College Lane, Oxford
  • Nirad C. CHAUDHURI (1897–1999), writer
    20 Lathbury Road, Oxford
  • Captain Noel Godfrey CHAVASSE (1884–1917), V.C. and Bar
    Magdalen College School, Oxford
  • Thomas COMBE (1796–1872) and Martha COMBE (1806–1893),
    founders of St Barnabas, philanthropists and patrons of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
    St Barnabas’ Church, Jericho, Oxford
  • Sarah Jane COOPER (1848–1932), marmalade maker
    83 High Street, Oxford
  • CUTTESLOWE WALLS (1934–1959)
    34 Aldrich Road, Oxford
  • Daniel EVANS (1769–1846) and Joshua SYMM (1809–1887), Oxford builders
    34 St Giles’, Oxford
  • Maureen GARDNER (1928–1974), Athlete, ballet teacher
    17 Maidcroft Road, Cowley
  • Gathorne Robert GIRDLESTONE (1881–1950), pioneering orthopaedic surgeon
    Nuffield Staff Accommodation, 72–74 Old Road, Headington, Oxford
  • J. S. HALDANE (1860–1936), physiologist
    11 Crick Road, Oxford
  • Norman HEATLEY (1911–2004), biochemist, key member of the Oxford penicillin team
    12 Oxford Road, Old Marston, Oxford
  • Cecil JACKSON-COLE (1901–1979), philanthropist, founding member of Oxfam
    17 Broad Street, Oxford
  • William KIMBER (1872–1961), Headington Quarry morris dancer and musician
    42 St Anne’s Road, Headington, Oxford
  • Sir Hans KREBS (1900–1981), biochemist and Nobel Laureate
    27 Abberbury Road, Iffley, Oxford
  • Edmund Arnold Greening LAMBORN (1877–1950),
    Headmaster, local historian, ‘Man of letters’, benefactor
    34 Oxford Road, Littlemore, Oxford
  • C. S. LEWIS (1898–1963), scholar and author
    The Kilns, Lewis Close, Headington Quarry, Oxford
  • Salvador de MADARIAGA, statesman, scholar and writer
    Box Tree House, 3 St Andrew’s Road, Old Headington, Oxford
  • William Richard MORFILL (1834–1909), first Professor of Russian and Slavonic Languages
    42 Park Town, Oxford
  • William MORRIS, Viscount Nuffield (1877–1963), car-maker and philanthropist
    16 James Street, Cowley, Oxford
  • MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) Scanner (1980)
    King’s Centre, Osney Mead, Oxford
  • Sir James MURRAY (1837–1915), Lexicographer and Editor of the OED
    78 Banbury Road, Oxford
  • Paul NASH (1889–1946), artist
    106 Banbury Road, Oxford
  • OXFORD PLAYHOUSE First auditorium (1923–1938) and former Big Game Museum
    12 Woodstock Road, Oxford
  • Walter PATER (1838–1894), author and scholar, and
    Clara PATER (1841–1910), pioneer of women’s education
    2 Bradmore Road, Oxford
  • Sir Francis SIMON (1893–1956), low-temperature physicist and philanthropist
    10 Belbroughton Road, Oxford
  • Felicia SKENE (1821–1899), prison reformer and friend of the poor
    34 St Michael’s Street, Oxford
  • John STANSFELD (1854–1939), parish priest, doctor
    Former Rectory, Paradise Square, St Ebbe’s, Oxford
  • STAR INN, Oxfordshire Yeomanry (1794)
    34 Cornmarket Street (Clarendon Centre), Oxford
  • SUB-FOUR MINUTE MILE (1954)
    Oxford University Sports Ground, Iffley Road, Oxford
  • Henry TAUNT (1842–1922), photographer
    393 Cowley Road, Oxford
  • John Ronald Reuel TOLKIEN (1892–1973), author and scholar
    20 Northmoor Road, Oxford
  • William TURNER ‘of Oxford’ (1789–1862), artist
    16 St John Street, Oxford
  • Mary Arnold WARD (Mrs Humphry WARD) (1851–1920), social reformer, novelist
    17 Bradmore Road, Oxford
  • Anthony à WOOD (1632–1695), antiquary
    Postmasters’ Hall, Merton Street, Oxford

Cherwell
  • Janet Heatley BLUNT (1859–1950), folk song and morris dance collector
    Le Hall Place, Adderbury
  • William BUCKLAND (1784–1856), geologist, Dean of Westminster
    The Old Rectory, Islip
  • KNIBB clockmakers — Samuel (1625–c.1670), Joseph (1640–1711),
    John (1650– 1722) — at the Church Room, Claydon
  • Frank LASCELLES (1875–1934), Pageant Master
    Manor House, Temple Mill Road, Sibford Gower, near Banbury
  • William POTTS (1868–1949), author and editor of the Banbury Guardian
    16 Parson Street, Banbury
  • L. T. C. (Tom) ROLT (1910–1974), engineering historian, champion of Inland Waterways
    Towpath entrance to Tooley’s Boatyard, Banbury
  • Sir Bernhard SAMUELSON (1820–1905), industrialist and educationist
    Banbury Library (formerly The Mechanics Institute), Banbury

South Oxfordshire
  • Sir William BLACKSTONE (1723–1780), judge and jurist
    Wallingford Town Hall
  • Henry BODDINGTON (1813–1886), brewer
    14 (54) Wellington Street, Thame (site of former workhouse)
  • Alfred CAMPOLI (1906–1991), Violinist
    39 North street, Thame
  • Dame Agatha CHRISTIE (1890–1976) author, with her husband,
    Sir Max MALLOWAN
    (1904–1978), archaeologist
    Winterbrook House, Cholsey
  • James FIGG (1684–1734), Prize Fighter
    The James Figg Pub (formerly The Greyhound Inn), Cornmarket, Thame
  • Humphrey GAINSBOROUGH (1718–1776), innovative engineer
    Christ Church United Reformed Church, Reading Road, Henley-on-Thames
  • Elizabeth GOUDGE (1900–1984), writer
    Rose Cottage, Peppard Common, near Henley-on-Thames
  • Jethro TULL (1674–1741), agriculturalist and inventor of the seed drill
    19A The Street, Crowmarsh Gifford

Vale of White Horse
  • John ALDER (c.1712–1780), lottery winner and public benefactor
    39 Stert Street, Abingdon (formerly the Mitre Inn)
  • H. H. ASQUITH (1852–1928), Prime Minister
    The Wharf, 43 Church Street, Sutton Courtenay
  • Lord BERNERS, Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron (1883–1950), Composer, writer, artist, eccentric
    Faringdon Folly Tower, Folly Hill, Faringdon (access lane from Stanford Road)
  • Sir John BETJEMAN (1906–1984), poet, writer and broadcaster
    Garrards Farmhouse, Uffington
  • Kenneth GRAHAME (1859–1932), author
    Boham’s House, Westbrook Street, Blewbury
  • RIPON HALL, former Liberal Anglican Theological College (1933–1975)
    Foxcombe Hall, Boar’s Hill
  • Daniel TURNER (1710–1798), Baptist Minister, theologian, hymn writer
    35 Ock Street, Abingdon

West Oxfordshire
  • Mont ABBOTT (1902–1989), carter, shepherd, storyteller
    Biddy’s Bottom, Fulwell, Enstone
  • William CARTER (1852–1920), founder of Carterton
    Town Hall, Carterton
  • Sir Stafford CRIPPS (1889–1952), statesman and benefactor
    The Village Centre, Filkins
  • Charles EARLY (1824–1912), blanket manufacturer
    Witney Mill
  • Barbara PYM (1913–1980), novelist
    Barn Cottage, High Street, Finstock
  • James Allen SHUFFREY (1859–1939), artist
    7 Narrow Hill, Woodgreen
  • William SMITH (1815–1875), blanket manufacturer
    8 Bridge Street, Witney
  • Revd Edward STONE (1702–1768), discoverer of the active ingredient in aspirin
    Former Hitchman Brewery, West Street, Chipping Norton
  • General Sir Montagu STOPFORD (1892–1971), Burma Campaign
    Rock Hill, Chipping Norton
  • Reginald TIDDY (1880–1916), collector of folk plays, local benefactor
    Tiddy Hall (the Village Hall), Ascott-under-Wychwood
  • WESTFIELD HOUSE, refuge for Basque children (1937–1939)
    Aston, near Bampton

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