Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board plaques

This scheme was established in 1999. Under the chairmanship of Dr Kate Tiller, Deputy Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, it includes representatives of all areas of the county. The scheme is administered by the Oxford Civic Society.

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	Blue plaque № 12779 in Oxford	In this place the Royalist surrender of Oxford was negotiated with the Parliamentarians May-June 1646
	Blue plaque № 12538 in Oxford	Richard Meux Benson 1824–1915 Vicar of Cowley and benefactor, founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist in 1866 lived at this former Mission House
	Blue plaque № 12274 in Faringdon	Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson 14th BARON BERNERS 1883–1950 Composer, Writer, Artist, Eccentric lived at Faringdon House 1919–1950 and built this tower “Praise to the Lord. He seldom was bored”
	Ronnie Barker blue plaque in Oxford	Ronnie Barker, 1929-2005, actor and comedian, lived here, 1935-1949
	Blue plaque № 11472 in Ascott-under-Wychwood	Reginald Tiddy 1880–1916 collector of folk plays, benefactor and resident of this village 1909–1916
	Blue plaque № 10876 in Wallingford	Judge Sir William Blackstone 1723-1780 Presided here as Recorder of Wallingford 1749-1770 Author of Commentaries on The Laws of England
	Henry Taunt blue plaque in Oxford	Henry Taunt 1842-1922 photographer lived and worked here at 'Rivera' 1889-1922
	Anthony à Wood blue plaque in Oxford	Anthony à Wood 1632-1695 antiquary was born, lived and died at Postmasters' Hall
	Westfield House blue plaque in Aston	Westfield House (formerly St Joseph’s) from 1937 to 1939 during the Spanish Civil War this building was home to 30 refugee children from the Basque region of northern Spain who were cared for by local volunteers
	first superconducting magnet for MRI scanning blue plaque in Oxford	In this building the first superconducting magnet for MRI scanning was manufactured by Oxford Instruments in 1980
	Cutteslowe Walls blue plaque in Oxford	Here stood one of the two Cutteslowe Walls, erected 1934 and finally demolished on 9th March 1959
	Martha Combe and Thomas Combe blue plaque in Oxford	Thomas Combe 1796-1872 printer to the University, Martha Combe 1806-1893 founders of this church, philanthropists and patrons of the Pre-Raphaelite movement
	Joshua Symm and Daniel Evans blue plaque in Oxford	Daniel Evans (1769-1846) and his son-in-law Joshua Symm (1809-1877), designers and makers of many Oxford buildings, lived and worked here
	William Potts blue plaque in Banbury	William Potts 1868-1949 local author & editor of The Banbury Guardian for 54 years at the printing works here.
	John Alder blue plaque in Abingdon	John Alder (c.1712 - 1780) lottery winner and public benefactor lived here
	Oxfordshire Yeomanry blue plaque in Oxford	In 1794 at the Star Inn near this site The Oxfordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars) was formed
	William Morris blue plaque in Oxford	William Morris, later Lord Nuffield (1877-1963), carmaker and philanthropist, lived and built bicycles here (1896-1903)
	Jane Burden blue plaque in Oxford	Jane Burden (Mrs William Morris) 1839-1914 Pre-Raphaelite muse and embroiderer was born in a dwelling in this passage 19th October 1839
	Mont Abbott blue plaque in Enstone	Mont Abbott (1902-1989) carter, shepherd, storyteller lived here
	Roger Bannister blue plaque in Oxford	Here at the Iffley Road Track the first sub-four minute mile was run on 6th May 1954 by Roger Bannister
	Paul Nash blue plaque in Oxford	Paul Nash 1889-1946 artist lived here 1940-1946
	Sarah Cooper blue plaque in Oxford	Sarah Cooper 1848-1932 first made Oxford marmalade here in 1874
	Noel Chavasse blue plaque in Oxford	Captain Noel Chavasse, Royal Army Medical Corps VC and BAR, 1884-1917, was born in Oxford and attended this school
	John Ronald Reuel Tolkien blue plaque in Oxford	J. R. R. Tolkien author of The Lord of the Rings lived here 1930-1947
	Blue plaque № 1019 in Oxford	Ripon Hall liberal Anglican theological college was housed here 1933-1975
	Cecil Jackson-Cole and Oxfam blue plaque in Oxford	Cecil Jackson-Cole 1901-1979 entrepreneur and philanthropist helped establish the first Oxfam shop and office here in 1947
	C. S. Lewis blue plaque in Oxford	C. S. Lewis 1898-1963 scholar and author lived here 1930-1963
	Jethro Tull blue plaque in Oxford	Jethro Tull 1674-1741 agriculturist and inventor of the seed drill lived here 1700-1710
	Frank Lascelles blue plaque in Banbury	Frank William Thomas Charles Lascelles 1875–1934 pageant master, writer, painter, sculptor. The man who staged the Empire. Built and lived here
	Felicia Skene blue plaque in Oxford	Felicia Skene 1821-1899 prison reformer and friend of the poor lived here 1869-1899
	Francis Simon blue plaque in Oxford	Sir Francis Simon (1893-1956) low temperature physicist and philanthropist lived here
	Clara Pater and Walter Pater blue plaque in Oxford	Walter Pater 1839-1894 author and scholar Clara Pater 1841-1910 pioneer of women's education lived here 1869-1885
	Humphrey Gainsborough blue plaque in Henley-on-Thames	Humphrey Gainsborough 1718-1776 innovative engineer and for 27 years Minister at the Independent Chapel on this site is buried nearby.
	James A. H. Murray blue plaque in Oxford	Sir James Murray editor of the Oxford English Dictionary lived here 1885-1915
	Gathorne Robert Girdlestone blue plaque in Oxford	Professor Gathorne Robert Girdlestone "GRG" 1881-1950 Pioneering surgeon and founder of the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre lived in the Red House on this site 1919-1948
	John Betjeman blue plaque in Uffington	John Betjeman 1906-1984 poet lived here 1934-1945
	James Allen Shuffrey blue plaque in Witney	James Allen Shuffrey 1859-1939 artist was born and lived here 1859-1877
	Edward Stone blue plaque in Chipping Norton	Revd Edward Stone 1702-1768 discoverer of the active ingredient in Aspirin whilst living near here from 1745-1768
	Isaiah Berlin blue plaque in Oxford	Sir Isaiah Berlin O.M. 1909-1997 historian of ideas lived here 1956-1997
	William Blackstone blue plaque in Wallingford	Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780), judge and jurist
	William Richard Morfill blue plaque in Oxford	William Richard Morfill 1834-1909 first Professor of Russian and Slavonic Languages lived here 1863-1909
	Nirad C. Chaudhuri blue plaque in Oxford	Nirad C. Chaudhuri 1897-1999 writer lived here 1982-1999
	Hans Krebs blue plaque in Oxford	Professor Sir Hans Krebs FRS (1900-1981), biochemist, Nobel laureate, lived here (1954-1981)
	J. S. Haldane blue plaque in Oxford	J. S. Haldane CH FRS 1860-1936 physiologist lived and conducted experiments here 1891-1899
	Agatha Christie and Max Mallowan blue plaque in Wallingford	Dame Agatha Christie 1890-1976 author lived here 1934-76 with her husband Sir Max Mallowan 1904-1978 archaeologist
	Norman Heatley blue plaque in Oxford	Norman Heatley DM 1911-2004 biochemist, key member of the Oxford penicillin team 1939-42 lived here 1946-2004
	William Smith blue plaque in Witney	William Smith 1815-1875 blanket manufacturer, founder of the steam-powered Bridge Street Mill lived in this house next to his mill c.1850-1875
	Edmund Arnold Greening Lamborn blue plaque in Oxford	Edmund Arnold Greening Lamborn 1877–1950 Headmaster Local historian and benefactor Man of Letters lived here 1911–1950
	Oxford Playhouse blue plaque in Oxford	Oxford Playhouse began here, 1923-1938, in the former Big Game Museum built in 1906
	William Turner blue plaque in Oxford	William Turner artist, lived here 1833-1862
	John Henry Brookes blue plaque in Oxford	John Henry Brookes 1891–1975 artist, craftsman, inspirational educator after whom Oxford Brookes University is named lived here 1929–1975
	Elizabeth Goudge blue plaque in Henley-on-Thames	Elizabeth Goudge 1900-1984 writer lived here 1952-1984
	Henry Boddington blue plaque in Thame	Henry Boddington 1813–1886 brewer born in Thame and lived on this site 1826–1832
	Alfredo Campoli blue plaque in Thame	Alfredo Campoli 1906–1991 violinist lived here 1986–1991
	William Kimber blue plaque in Oxford	William Kimber 1872-1961 Headington Quarry morris dancer and musician. Key figure in the English Morris Dance & Folk Music Revival lived here at Merryville 1908-1961
	Salvador de Madariaga blue plaque in Oxford	Salvador de Madariaga 1886–1978 statesman, scholar and writer lived here 1929–1931 : 1940–1973
	Montagu Stopford blue plaque in Chipping Norton	General Sir Montagu Stopford GCB KBE DSO MC DL The Rifle Brigade 1892-1971 who commanded 33 Indian Corps in Burma 1943-45 and received the Japanese surrender on 24 October 1945 lived at Rock Hill 1950-1971
	Carterton and William Carter blue plaque in Carterton	William Carter (1852-1920) founder of Carterton lived here
	Bernhard Samuelson blue plaque in Banbury	Sir Bernhard Samuelson MP FRS 1820-1905 industrialist and educationist lived here
	John Stansfeld blue plaque in Oxford	The Revd Canon John Stansfeld (1854-1939), parish priest, doctor, philanthropist, lived here as Rector of St Ebbe's (1912-1926)
	Janet Heatley Blunt blue plaque in Banbury	Janet Heatley Blunt 1859-1950 folk song and morris dance collector lived here 1896-1950
	Daniel Turner blue plaque in Abingdon	Daniel Turner 1710–1798 baptist minister, theologian, hymn writer, lived here 1748–1798
	Barbara Pym blue plaque in Finstock	Barbara Pym 1913-1980 writer lived here 1972-1980
	James Figg blue plaque in Thame	James Figg 1684–1734 Champion of England for trials of skill born in Thame and associated with this inn then called The Greyhound
	William Buckland blue plaque in Islip	William Buckland 1784-1856, geologist, Dean of Westminster
	Stafford Cripps blue plaque in Filkins	Sir Stafford Cripps 1889-1952 statesman and benefactor to this village
	Charles Early blue plaque in Witney	Charles Early 1824-1912 blanket manufacturer expanded the family business here at Witney Mill. Earl'y traded here until 2002. This was the town's last blanket mill.
	L. T. C. Rolt blue plaque in Banbury	L. T. C. Rolt 1910-1974 engineering historian, champion of inland waterways began his historic "Cressy" cruise here in 1939
	Samuel Knibb, Joseph Knibb, and John Knibb blue plaque in Claydon	Samuel Knibb 1625–c.1670 Joseph Knibb 1640–1711 John Knibb 1650–1722 eminent clockmakers born and bred in Claydon
	Mary Arnold Ward and Humphry Ward blue plaque in Oxford	Mary Arnold Ward (Mrs Humphry Ward) 1851-1920 social reformer lived here 1872-1881
	Herbert Henry Asquith blue plaque in Sutton Courtenay	H. H. Asquith 1852–1928 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith Prime Minister 1908–1916 lived here 1912–1928
	Maureen Gardner blue plaque in Oxford	Maureen Gardner 1928-1974 athlete, ballet teacher, Olympic hurdles silver medallist 1948, lived here 1930-1948
	Kenneth Grahame blue plaque in Blewbury	Kenneth Grahame 1859-1932 author lived here 1910-1920