Lonsdale Road
Road in Summertown, North Oxford, England From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lonsdale Road is a residential road in Summertown, north Oxford, England.[1]
The road runs between Banbury Road to the west and the River Cherwell to the east.[2] To the south is Summer Fields School, a private preparatory school. St Michael and All Angels parish church is on the north side of Lonsdale Road, near the Banbury Road end.[3]
Lonsdale Road is named after the Earl of Lonsdale.[4] The road was named in 1905 although the first houses in the road were erected from 1902.[5]
Notable residents
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There have been a number of notable residents of Lonsdale Road, especially scientists, including two Nobel Prize winners.[8] The following have been residents in the road:
- Sir Ludwig Guttmann (1899–1980), neurologist.[9]
- John Herivel (1918–2011), mathematician, World War II codebreaker at Bletchley Park and historian of science.[6][7][10]
- Sir Peter Hirsch (born 1925), metallurgist.[11]
- Tony Honoré (1921–2019), lawyer and jurist.[12]
- Dame Louise Johnson (1940–2012), biochemist and protein crystallographer.[11]
- Bertram Mandelbrote (1923–2010), psychiatrist and pioneer of mental healthcare.[13][14]
- Jean Robinson, healthcare campaigner.[15][16]
- Abdus Salam (1926–1996), physicist, Nobel Laureate in Physics (1979).[11]
- Paul Thompson (born 1935), sociologist and pioneer of oral history.[17]
- Niko Tinbergen (1907–1988), biologist and ornithologist, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine.[12][18]
- Sir Douglas Veale (1891–1973) University Registrar
Three of the houses in the road bear blue plaques. The Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board erected the plaques to Nikolaas Tinbergen[19] and Ludwig Guttmann.[20] The third, to John Herivel, is a private one created and installed by his daughter Susan.[21]
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