Lonsdale Road
Lonsdale Road at the junction with King's Cross Road.
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 from the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board.[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 (born 1921), 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 and Nobel Laureate in Physics (1979).[11]
- Paul Thompson (born 1935), sociologist and pioneer of oral history.[17]
- Niko Tinbergen (1907–1988), biologist, ornithologist, and Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine.[12][18]
References
- ↑ Kinchin, Perilla (2006). Seven Roads in Summertown: Voices from an Oxford Suburb. White Cockade Publishing. ISBN 187348713-4.
- ↑ "Lonsdale Road on Oxford Street Map". Oxford.StreetMapOf.co.uk. UK. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
- ↑ "St Michael & All Angels". Retrieved 29 December 2015.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Kinchin (2006), page 222.
- 1 2 "WW2 Bletchley Park codebreaker John Herivel awarded plaque". BBC News. UK: BBC. 10 May 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
- 1 2 Plaque #31149 on Open Plaques.
- ↑ Kinchin (2006), page 84.
- ↑ Kinchin (2006), pages 80–81.
- ↑ Kinchin (2006), pages 82–83, 148, 216–217.
- 1 2 3 Kinchin (2006), page 85.
- 1 2 "Lonsdale Road". Kelly's Directory of Oxford, 1976 (68th ed.). IPC Business Press. 1975. pp. 385–386.
- ↑ Kinchin (2006), pages 87–88.
- ↑ Agulnik, Peter (23 January 2011). "Bertram Mandelbrote obituary: Pioneering psychiatrist who helped transform mental hospitals". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ↑ Kinchin (2006), pages 88–90.
- ↑ Bromham, David R.; Dalton, Maureen E.; Jackson, Jennifer C. (1990). Philosophical Ethics in Reproductive Medicine. Manchester University Press. p. viii. ISBN 978-0719030130.
- ↑ Kinchin (2006), page 91.
- ↑ Kinchin (2006), pages 84–85.
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