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This scheme was established in 1999 and continues to be very active today. It includes representatives of all areas of the county. The scheme is administered by the Oxford Civic Society.
117 out of 120 (97%) plaques have been curated
137 subjects all or unphotographedGender Diversity
Henry Taunt 1842-1922 photographer lived and worked here at 'Rivera' 1889-1922
393 Cowley Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Anthony à Wood 1632-1695 antiquary was born, lived and died at Postmasters' Hall
Postmasters’ Hall, Merton Street, Oxford, United Kingdom
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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
Bampton Road, Aston, United Kingdom
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In this building the first superconducting magnet for MRI scanning was manufactured by Oxford Instruments in 1980
The King's Centre, Osney Mead, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Here stood one of the two Cutteslowe Walls, erected 1934 and finally demolished on 9th March 1959
34 Aldrich Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Thomas Combe 1796-1872 printer to the University, Martha Combe 1806-1893 founders of this church, philanthropists and patrons of the Pre-Raphaelite movement
St Barnabas' Church, Cardigan Street, Jericho, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Daniel Evans (1769-1846) and his son-in-law Joshua Symm (1809-1877), designers and makers of many Oxford buildings, lived and worked here
34 St Giles', Oxford, United Kingdom
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William Potts 1868-1949 local author & editor of The Banbury Guardian for 54 years at the printing works here.
16 Parson Street, Banbury, United Kingdom
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John Alder (c.1712 - 1780) lottery winner and public benefactor lived here
39 Stert Street, formerly the Mitre Inn, Abingdon, United Kingdom
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In 1794 at the Star Inn near this site The Oxfordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars) was formed
34 Cornmarket Street (Clarendon Centre), Oxford, United Kingdom
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William Morris, later Lord Nuffield (1877-1963), carmaker and philanthropist, lived and built bicycles here (1896-1903)
16 James Street, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Jane Burden (Mrs William Morris) 1839-1914 Pre-Raphaelite muse and embroiderer was born in a dwelling in this passage 19th October 1839
St Helen's Passage, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Montague Abbott "Old Mont" 1902-1989 carter, shepherd and storyteller lived here 1961-1989
Biddy's Bottom, Fulwell, Enstone, United Kingdom
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Here at the Iffley Road Track the first sub-four minute mile was run on 6th May 1954 by Roger Bannister
Oxford University Sports Ground, Iffley Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Sarah Cooper 1848-1932 first made Oxford marmalade here in 1874
83 High Street, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Captain Noel Chavasse, Royal Army Medical Corps VC and BAR, 1884-1917, was born in Oxford and attended this school
Magdalen College School, Cowley Place, Oxford, United Kingdom
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J. R. R. Tolkien author of The Lord of the Rings lived here 1930-1947
20 Northmoor Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Ripon Hall liberal Anglican theological college was housed here 1933-1975
Foxcombe Hall, Boar's Hill, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Cecil Jackson-Cole 1901-1979 entrepreneur and philanthropist helped establish the first Oxfam shop and office here in 1947
17 Broad Street, Oxford, United Kingdom
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C. S. Lewis 1898-1963 scholar and author lived here 1930-1963
The Kilns, Lewis Close, Headington Quarry, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Jethro Tull 1674-1741 agriculturist and inventor of the seed drill lived here 1700-1710
19A The Street, Crowmarsh Gifford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Frank William Thomas Charles Lascelles 1875–1934 pageant master, writer, painter, sculptor. The man who staged the Empire. Built and lived here
The Manor House, Sibford Gower, Banbury, United Kingdom
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Felicia Skene 1821-1899 prison reformer and friend of the poor lived here 1869-1899
34 St Michael’s Street, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Sir Francis Simon (1893-1956) low temperature physicist and philanthropist lived here
10 Belbroughton Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Walter Pater 1839-1894 author and scholar Clara Pater 1841-1910 pioneer of women's education lived here 1869-1885
2 Bradmore Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Humphrey Gainsborough 1718-1776 innovative engineer and for 27 years Minister at the Independent Chapel on this site is buried nearby.
Christ Church United Reformed Church, Reading Road, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
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Sir James Murray editor of the Oxford English Dictionary lived here 1885-1915
78 Banbury Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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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
The Nuffield Staff Accommodation, 72-74 Old Road, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom
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John Betjeman 1906-1984 poet lived here 1934-1945
Garrards Farmhouse, Uffington, United Kingdom
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James Allen Shuffrey 1859-1939 artist was born and lived here 1859-1877
7 Narrow Hill, Woodgreen, Witney, United Kingdom
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Revd Edward Stone 1702-1768 discoverer of the active ingredient in Aspirin whilst living near here from 1745-1768
Hitchman Brewery, West Street, Chipping Norton, United Kingdom
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Sir Isaiah Berlin O.M. 1909-1997 historian of ideas lived here 1956-1997
Headington House, Old High Street, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Judge Sir William Blackstone 1723-1780 presided here as Recorder of Wallingford 1749-1770 Author of Commentaries on The Laws of England
Wallingford Town Hall, 9 St Martin's Street, Wallingford, United Kingdom
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William Richard Morfill 1834-1909 first Professor of Russian and Slavonic Languages lived here 1863-1909
42 Park Town, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Nirad C. Chaudhuri 1897-1999 writer lived here 1982-1999
20 Lathbury Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Professor Sir Hans Krebs FRS (1900-1981), biochemist, Nobel laureate, lived here (1954-1981)
27 Abberbury Road, Iffley, Oxford, United Kingdom
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J. S. Haldane CH FRS 1860-1936 physiologist lived and conducted experiments here 1891-1899
Crick Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Dame Agatha Christie 1890-1976 author lived here 1934-76 with her husband Sir Max Mallowan 1904-1978 archaeologist
Winterbrook House, Cholsey, Wallingford, United Kingdom
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Norman Heatley DM 1911-2004 biochemist, key member of the Oxford penicillin team 1939-42 lived here 1946-2004
12 Oxford Road, Old Marston, Oxford, United Kingdom
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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
8 Bridge Street, Witney, United Kingdom
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Edmund Arnold Greening Lamborn 1877–1950 Headmaster Local historian and benefactor Man of Letters lived here 1911–1950
34 Oxford Road, Littlemore, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Oxford Playhouse began here, 1923-1938, in the former Big Game Museum built in 1906
12 Woodstock Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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John Henry Brookes 1891–1975 artist, craftsman, inspirational educator after whom Oxford Brookes University is named lived here 1929–1975
195 The Slade, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Elizabeth Goudge 1900-1984 writer lived here 1952-1984
Rose Cottage, Dog Lane, Rotherfield Peppard, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
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Henry Boddington 1813–1886 brewer born in Thame and lived on this site 1826–1832
14 Wellington Street, Thame, United Kingdom
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Alfredo Campoli 1906–1991 violinist lived here 1986–1991
39 North Street, Thame, United Kingdom
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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
42 St Anne's Road, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Salvador de Madariaga 1886–1978 statesman, scholar and writer lived here 1929–1931 : 1940–1973
Box Tree House, 3 St Andrew’s Road, Old Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom
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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
Rock Hill, Chipping Norton, United Kingdom
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William Carter (1852-1920) founder of Carterton lived here
Carterton Town Hall, Carterton, United Kingdom
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Sir Bernhard Samuelson MP FRS 1820-1905 industrialist and educationist lived here
Banbury Library (formerly The Mechanics Institute), Marlborough Rd, Banbury, United Kingdom
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The Revd Canon John Stansfeld 1854-1939 parish priest, doctor, philanthropist, lived here as Rector of St Ebbe's 1912-1926
Paradise Square, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Janet Heatley Blunt 1859-1950 folk song and morris dance collector lived here 1896-1950
Le Hall Place, Adderbury, United Kingdom
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Daniel Turner 1710–1798 baptist minister, theologian, hymn writer, lived here 1748–1798
35 Ock Street, Abingdon, United Kingdom
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Barbara Pym 1913-1980 writer lived here 1972-1980
Barn Cottage, High Street, Finstock, United Kingdom
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James Figg 1684–1734 Champion of England for trials of skill born in Thame and associated with this inn then called The Greyhound
James Figg Pub, Cornmarket, Thame, United Kingdom
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William Buckland 1784-1856, geologist, Dean of Westminster
Old Rectory, Islip, United Kingdom
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Sir Stafford Cripps 1889-1952 statesman and benefactor to this village
The Village Centre, Filkins, United Kingdom
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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.
former Witney Mill, Mill Street, Witney, United Kingdom
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L. T. C. Rolt 1910-1974 engineering historian, champion of inland waterways began his historic "Cressy" cruise here in 1939
Tooley’s Boatyard, Banbury, United Kingdom
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Samuel Knibb 1625–c.1670 Joseph Knibb 1640–1711 John Knibb 1650–1722 eminent clockmakers born and bred in Claydon
The Church Room, Claydon, United Kingdom
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Mary Arnold Ward (Mrs Humphry Ward) 1851-1920 social reformer lived here 1872-1881
17 Bradmore Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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H. H. Asquith 1852–1928 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith Prime Minister 1908–1916 lived here 1912–1928
The Wharf, 43 Church Street, Sutton Courtenay, United Kingdom
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Maureen Gardner 1928-1974 athlete, ballet teacher, Olympic hurdles silver medallist 1948, lived here 1930-1948
17 Maidcroft Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Kenneth Grahame 1859-1932 author lived here 1910-1920
Boham’s House, Blewbury, United Kingdom
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Judge Sir William Blackstone 1723-1780 Presided here as Recorder of Wallingford 1749-1770 Author of Commentaries on The Laws of England
Town Hall, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Reginald Tiddy 1880–1916 collector of folk plays, benefactor and resident of this village 1909–1916
Tiddy Hall (the Village Hall), Ascott-under-Wychwood, United Kingdom
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Ronnie Barker 1929-2005 actor and comedian lived here 1935-1949
23 Church Cowley Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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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”
Faringdon Folly Tower, Folly Hill, Faringdon, United Kingdom
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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
former Mission House, 16 Marston Street, Oxford, United Kingdom
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In this place the Royalist surrender of Oxford was negotiated with the Parliamentarians May-June 1646
Cromwell House, 17 Mill Lane, Old Marston, Oxford, United Kingdom
William Logsdail 1859-1944 artist lived here 1922-1944
The Manor House, Noke, United Kingdom
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Samuel E. Saunders 1857-1933 boat builder and engineer born at The Swan, Streatley. Pioneer of air and marine craft. Founder of Saro Ltd of Cowes built and sold boats here and at Withymead 1894-1911
Former boathouse and showroom, Goring, United Kingdom
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Robert Graves 1895-1985 poet and writer lived here 1921-1926
World's End, Collice Street, Islip, United Kingdom
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Larcum Kendall 1719–1790 celebrated watchmaker appointed by the Board of Longitude to make chronometers used by Captain Cook and Bligh in the South Seas lived near here as a child
Post Office, 8 Market Street, Charlbury, United Kingdom
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The Countryman was published here 1949-2003. The magazine was the creation of J. W. Robertson Scott. Champion of rural causes and editor 1927-1947.
Greyhounds, Sheep Street, Burford, United Kingdom
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Alfred White 1804-1876 innkeeper, church bellhanger, founder of the family business lived and worked here 1850-1876
The Greyhound, Besselsleigh, United Kingdom
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Cecil Kimber 1888-1945 Creator of the MG Marque lived here 1933-1938 MG Car Club Abingdon
Oxford Road, Abingdon, United Kingdom
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Elizabeth Bowen 1899-1973 writer lived here 1925-1935
The Coach House (formerly Waldencote), The Croft, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom
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William Penney 1909–1991 Baron Penney of East Hendred OM mathematical physicist, public servant, Rector of Imperial College lived here 1963-1991
Orchard House, Cat Street, East Hendred, United Kingdom
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John Chessell Buckler, 1793-1894, artist, architect, antiquary, lived here, 1861-1889
58 Holywell Street, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Olive Gibbs (née Cox), 1918-1995, Lord Mayor of Oxford, Chairman of Oxfordshire County Council, defender of Oxford's urban landscape, tireless champion of social causes, Honorary Freeman, National Chair of CND, was born and lived here 1918-1942
Christ Church Old Buildings, Osney Lane, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin OM FRS 1910-1994 Crystallographer Nobel Laureate in Chemistry lived here 1957-1968
94 Woodstock Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Sir Edward Poulton FRS 1856-1943 Evolutionary biologist Hope Professor of Zoology. Ronald Poulton Palmer 1889-1915 Rugby football hero. This was the family home 1881-1943
Wykeham House, 56 Banbury Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Sarah Angelina Acland 1849-1930 pioneer of colour photography lived here 1901-1930
10 Park Town, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Anne Ridler, 1912-2001, poet, Vivian Ridler, 1913-2009, printer, lived here from 1948
14 Stanley Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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William Wilkinson 1819-1901 architect of the Randolph Hotel and designer of North Oxford Victorian suburb lived and practised here 1860-1886
5 Beaumont Street, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Percy Manning 1870-1917 Antiquary and folklorist The Man Who Collected Oxfordshire lived here 1912-1917
300 Banbury Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Alan John Villiers DSC 1903-1982 Master of square-rigged ships, Captain of Mayflower II, writer and photographer of the last days of sail lived here 1967-1982
1A Lucerne Road, Marston, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Sir Richard Doll CH, 1912-2005, Regius Professor of Medicine, epidemiologist who discovered the main hazards of smoking, lived here 1983-2004
12 Rawlinson Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Edward Brooks VC 1883-1944 Company Sergeant Major 2/4th Bn Oxford & Bucks LI. Awarded the Victoria Cross for valour at Fayet on 18 April 1917 lived here 1915-1030
16 Windsor Street, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Wytton Perowne d'Arcy Dalton 1893-1981 champion and protector of public rights of way lived at The Limes (formerly Wyverns) 1961-1981
The Limes, Great Milton, United Kingdom
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Sir Terry Frost RA 1915-2003 abstract artist lived here 1963-1974
2 Old Parr Road, Banbury, United Kingdom
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Wytham Woods were given in 1942 to the University of Oxford for education, research and recreation by Raymond and Hope ffennell in memory of the daughter Hazel 1905-1939
Keepers’ Hill Car Park, OX2 8QQ, Wytham, United Kingdom
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George Claridge Druce FRS 1850-1932 botanist pharmacist Mayor and Alderman lived here at his shop 1879-1905
118 High Street, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Professor James Legge, 1815-1897, missionary and Sinologist, translator of the Chinese classics, lived here 1876-1897
3 Keble Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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William Henry Dines FRS 1855-1927 pioneering meteorologist created the Benson Observatory near here at Colne House (now demolished) where he lived and worked 1913-1927
The Old Barn, Brook Street, Benson, United Kingdom
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Penicillin: The first antibiotic was first used to treat infection here at the Outpatients building of the former Radcliffe Infirmary on 12 February 1941. Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences University of Oxford.
Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences - Woodstock Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Andrea Angel, 1877-1917, Oxford chemist, gave his life for others in the Silvertown Explosion in London, lived here 1905-1917
University of Oxford IT Services - 15-19 Banbury Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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In this building Howard Florey, Ernst Chain, Norman Heatley & colleagues first isolated and purified penicillin for the treatment of bacterial infection, 1938-1941
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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The former Chapel of St Ignatius, the first Roman Catholic place of worship at Oxford after the Reformation, built by Fr Charles Leslie SJ in 1793
81 St Clement's Street, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Patrick Steptoe FRS 1913-1988 gynaecologist pioneer of IVF lived here 1917-1943
, Witney, United Kingdom
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Robin Cavendish MBE 1930-1994 Responaut. Pioneer of the first wheelchair respirator and constant champion of the needs of other severely disabled people lived here 1960-1994
The Old Rectory, Church Lane, Drayton St Leonard, United Kingdom
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Dame Margery Perham 1895-1982 historian. Key writer and adviser on African affairs lived here 1963-1982
5 Rawlinson Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Chiang Yee 蒋彝 1903-1977 Artist and writer 'The Silent Traveller' lodged here with the Keene family 1940-1955
28 Southmoor Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Chassar Moir 1900-1977 First Nuffield Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, pioneering researcher and surgeon lived here 1938-1957
11 Chadlington Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Joan Murray née Clarke 1917-1996 Bletchley Park cryptoanalyst numismatist lived here 1991-1996
7 Larkfields, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Oxford Park & Ride. The first enduring P & R in the UK and model for other cities was launched here at Redbridge in December 1973
Redbridge Park and Ride, Abingdon Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Oxford United Football Club founded here as Headington FC 27th October 1893. The former Manor Ground opposite was its home 1925-2001
Britannia Inn, London Road, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Annie Rogers 1856-1937 classicist. Ceaseless campaigner for women's full membership of Oxford University. Victory was finally won in 1920. Lived here 1891-1899
35 St Giles', Oxford, United Kingdom
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Ivy Williams DCL 1877–1966 lawyer. First woman to be called to the English Bar and to teach Law at Oxford lived here 1887–1904
12 King Edward Street, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Thomas Henry Kingerlee 1843-1928 Major Oxford builder, twice Mayor of Oxford lived here ????-???? [full inscription unknown]
River Hotel, Botley Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Abel Beesley 1851-1921 waterman, invincible Punting Champion of England who popularised the punt as a leisure craft lived here 1899-1921
4 Upper Fisher Row, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Dame Iris Murdoch 1919-1999 novelist moral philosopher lived here 1989-1999
30 Charlbury Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Freydis Sharland 1920-2014 [full inscription unknown]
Chalkstone Cottage, Benson, United Kingdom
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Alice Maud Batt 1889-1969 Volunteer nurse in WWI Awarded the Albert Medal for heroic action in saving life Lived at this house, home to generations of Batt surgeons and benefactors c. 1800 - 1926
Batt House - 16 Market Square, Witney, United Kingdom