Lonsdale Road

Lonsdale Road is a residential road in Summertown, north Oxford, England.^[1]

Lonsdale Road at the junction with King's Cross Road.

St Michael and All Angels parish church on the north side of Lonsdale Road.

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]

John Herivel's house in Lonsdale Road, with a blue plaque erected by his daughter.^[6][7]

Notable residents

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]

References

1. Kinchin, Perilla (2006). Seven Roads in Summertown: Voices from an Oxford Suburb. White Cockade Publishing. ISBN 187348713-4.
2. "Lonsdale Road on Oxford Street Map". Oxford.StreetMapOf.co.uk. UK. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
3. "St Michael & All Angels". Retrieved 29 December 2015.
4. Symonds, Ann Spokes; Morgan, Nigel (2010). "Lonsdale Road". The Origins of Oxford Street Names. Robert Boyd Publications. p. 146. ISBN 978-1-899536-99-3.
5. Kinchin (2006), page 222.
6. "WW2 Bletchley Park codebreaker John Herivel awarded plaque". BBC News. UK: BBC. 10 May 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
7. Plaque #31149 on Open Plaques
8. Kinchin (2006), page 84.
9. Kinchin (2006), pages 80–81.
10. Kinchin (2006), pages 82–83, 148, 216–217.
11. Kinchin (2006), page 85.
12. "Lonsdale Road". Kelly's Directory of Oxford, 1976 (68th ed.). IPC Business Press. 1975. pp. 385–386.
13. Kinchin (2006), pages 87–88.
14. Agulnik, Peter (23 January 2011). "Bertram Mandelbrote obituary: Pioneering psychiatrist who helped transform mental hospitals". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
15. Kinchin (2006), pages 88–90.
16. Bromham, David R.; Dalton, Maureen E.; Jackson, Jennifer C. (1990). Philosophical Ethics in Reproductive Medicine. Manchester University Press. p. viii. ISBN 978-0719030130.
17. Kinchin (2006), page 91.
18. Kinchin (2006), pages 84–85.
19. http://www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/tinbergen.html
20. http://www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/guttmann.html
21. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-27341855

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