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 ![]()
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
