Lonsdale Road

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Lonsdale Road at the junction with King's Cross Road. Lonsdale Road - geograph.org.uk - 771586.jpg
Lonsdale Road at the junction with King's Cross Road.
St Michael and All Angels parish church on the north side of Lonsdale Road. Summertown StMichael&AA SE.jpg
St Michael and All Angels parish church on the north side of Lonsdale Road.

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]

John Herivel's house in Lonsdale Road, with a blue plaque erected by his daughter. John Herivel's house in Oxford.jpg
John Herivel's house in Lonsdale Road, with a blue plaque erected by his daughter.

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 on the road:

Three of the houses on 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. 1 2 "WW2 Bletchley Park codebreaker John Herivel awarded plaque". BBC News . UK: BBC. 10 May 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  7. 1 2 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. 1 2 3 Kinchin (2006), page 85.
  12. 1 2 "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. "Nikolaas Tinbergen: Oxfordshire Blue Plaques".
  20. "Sir Ludwig Guttmann: Oxfordshire Blue Plaques".
  21. "WW2 Bletchley Park codebreaker John Herivel awarded plaque". BBC News. 10 May 2014.

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