OXFORDSHIRE BLUE PLAQUES SCHEME

Plaques awarded

The following Oxfordshire Blue Plaques have been erected in the city and county. The locations are shown on the map on the international Open Plaques website.

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Oxford City
  • Sir Isaiah BERLIN (1909–1997), historian of ideas
    Headington House, Oxford
  • John Henry BROOKES (1891–1975), artist, craftsman, educationist
    195 The Slade, Headington
  • 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
  • Gathorne Robert GIRDLESTONE (1881–1950), pioneering orthopaedic surgeon
    Nuffield Staff Accommodation, 72–74 Old Road, Headington
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • Sir John BETJEMAN (1906–1984), poet, writer and broadcaster
    Garrards Farmhouse, Uffington
  • 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
  • WESTFIELD HOUSE, refuge for Basque children (1937–1939)
    Aston, near Bampton

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Last updated: 15 October, 2011