# Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board

The Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board established in 1999 was the brainchild of Sir Hugo Brunner, then Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, and Edwin Townsend-Coles, Chairman of the Oxford Civic Society. The Board is an autonomous voluntary body whose members are drawn from cultural organisations and local government across the county. It awards and installs blue plaques on buildings in Oxford and Oxfordshire to commemorate very remarkable residents and, occasionally, historic events. For more detailed information, see the Board’s website.

## Blue plaques in the City of Oxford

Blue plaques in the City of Oxford :
| Name | Date(s) | Notable for | Address | Unveiling |
| Sarah Angelina Acland | 1849–1930 | Photographer | 10 Park Town | 24 July 2016 |
| Andrea Angel | 1877–1917 | Oxford chemist and home-front hero | 15 Banbury Road | 14 July 2018 |
| Ronnie Barker | 1929–2005 | Actor and comedian | 23 Church Cowley Road | 29 September 2012 |
| Abel Beesley | 1851–1921 | Waterman and punting legend | 4 Upper Fisher Row | 26 June 2021 |
| Frank Bellamy Ethel Bellamy | 1863–1936 1881–1960 | Astronomer, philatelist Seismologist, astronomer | 2 Winchester Road | 8 October 2019 |
| Richard Meux Benson | 1824–1915 | Vicar of Cowley and benefactor, founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist | 16 Marston Street | 9 May 2013 |
| Sir Isaiah Berlin | 1909–1997 | Philosopher, historian of ideas | Headington House, Old High Street, Headington | 7 June 2009 |
| Elizabeth Bowen | 1899–1973 | Author | The Coach House, The Croft, Headington | 19 October 2014 |
| John Henry Brookes | 1891–1975 | Artist, craftsman, educationist | 195 The Slade, Headington | 16 March 2011 |
| Edward Brooks (VC) | 1883–1944 | Company Sergeant Major | 16 Windsor Street, Headington | 29 July 2017 |
| Rhoda Broughton | 1840–1920 | Popular novelist, independent woman, and wit | River View, Headington Hill | 22 October 2020 |
| John Chessell Buckler | 1793–1894 | Artist, antiquarian, architect | 58 Holywell Street | 30 October 2015 |
| Jane Burden | 1839–1914 | Pre-Raphaelite model and wife of William Morris | St Helen's Passage | 19 October 2007 |
| Violet Butler | 1884–1982 | Social reformer, social work trainer | 14 Norham Gardens | 29 October 2021 |
| Nirad Chaudhuri | 1897–1999 | Writer | 20 Lathbury Road | 4 October 2008 |
| Noel Chavasse | 1884–1917 | VC and Bar | Magdalen College School | 30 September 2005 |
| Chiang Yee | 1903–1977 | Artist and writer | 28 Southmoor Road | 29 June 2019 |
| Civil War | 1646 | Surrender of Oxford in 1646 | Cromwell House, 17 Mill Lane, Old Marston | 16 June 2013 |
| Thomas Combe Martha Combe | 1796–1872 1806–1893 | Printer Patron of the arts | St Barnabas Church | 25 February 2007 |
| Sarah Cooper | 1848–1932 | Marmalade maker | 83 High Street | 10 October 2001 |
| The Cutteslowe Walls | 1934–1959 | Site of the former wall | 34 Aldrich Road | 9 March 2006 |
| Sir Richard Doll | 1912–2005 | Epidemiologist | 12 Rawlinson Road | 7 June 2015 |
| George Claridge Druce | 1850–1932 | Botanist, pharmacist, Mayor of Oxford | 83 High Street | 28 April 2018 |
| Charles Elton E. J. Scovell | 1900–1991 1907–1999 | Ecologist Poet | 61 Park Town | 8 June 2024 |
| Sir Anthony Epstein | 1921–2024 | Virologist | 19 West Street, Osney Island | 2 November 2024 |
| Daniel Evans Joshua Symm | 1769–1846 1809–1887 | Designers and builders of many Oxford buildings | 34 St Giles' | 19 October 2004 |
| Mabel Purefoy FitzGerald | 1872–1973 | Physiologist | 12 Crick Road | 14 October 2022 |
| Philippa Foot | 1920–2010 | Moral philosopher | 15 Walton Street, Oxford | 26 May 2023 |
| Maureen Gardner | 1928–1974 | Olympic hurdles silver medallist 1948 | 17 Maidcroft Road, Cowley | 7 July 2012 |
| Olive Gibbs | 1918–1995 | Local politician and campaigner | Christ Church Old Buildings, Osney Lane | 11 April 2015 |
| Gathorne Robert Girdlestone | 1881–1950 | Pioneering orthopaedic surgeon | Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre Staff Accommodation, 72–74 Old Road, Headington, site of the Red House | 9 May 2006 |
| Sir Ludwig Guttmann | 1899–1980 | Neurosurgeon | 63 Lonsdale Road, Summertown | 29 April 2023 |
| John Scott Haldane | 1860–1936 | Physiologist | 11 Crick Road | 2 May 2009 |
| Norman Heatley | 1911–2004 | Biochemist | 12 Oxford Road, Old Marston | 17 July 2010 |
| Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin | 1910–1994 | Crystallographer, Nobel Laureate | 94 Woodstock Road | 5 May 2016 |
| Iffley Road Track | 1954 | The first sub-four-minute mile by Roger Bannister at Oxford University Sports Ground on 6 May 1954 | Iffley Road | 12 May 2004 |
| Cecil Jackson-Cole | 1901–1979 | Entrepreneur, philanthropist and founding member of the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (Oxfam) | 17 Broad Street | 14 November 2002 |
| William Kimber | 1872–1961 | Headington Quarry morris dancer and musician | 42 St Anne's Road, Headington | 30 May 2011 |
| Thomas Henry Kingerlee | 1843–1928 | Major Oxford builder | The River Hotel, 17 Botley Road | 9 June 2021 |
| Sir Leslie Kirkley | 1911–1989 | Humanitarian, Director of Oxfam | 25 Capel Close, Summertown | 16 June 2023 |
| Sir Hans Krebs | 1900–1981 | Biochemist | 27 Abberbury Road, Iffley | 7 June 2008 |
| Edmund Arnold Greening Lamborn | 1877–1950 | Headmaster, local historian, "man of letters", benefactor | 34 Oxford Road, Littlemore | 18 September 2010 |
| James Legge | 1815–1897 | Sinologist and missionary | 3 Keble Road | 16 May 2018 |
| C.S. Lewis | 1898–1963 | Academic and author | The Kilns, Lewis Close, Headington Quarry | 26 July 2008 |
| Dr Isabelle Little | 1889–1969 | Pioneering GP | 2 Holywell Street | 6 July 2024 |
| Mary McMaster | 1914–2004 | Physiotherapist, founder of St Luke’s Hospital and McMaster House | McMaster House, Latimer Road, Headington | 27 July 2022 |
| Salvador de Madariaga | 1886–1978 | Statesman, scholar and writer | Boxtrees, 3 St Andrew's Road, Headington | 15 October 2011 |
| Magnetic resonance imaging scanner | 1980 | Manufacture of the first commercial MRI whole-body scanner | The King's Centre, Osney Mead | 14 May 2007 |
| Percy Manning | 1870–1917 | Antiquary and folklorist | 300 Banbury Road, Summertown | 8 April 2017 |
| Chassar Moir | 1900–1977 | Gynaecologist, pioneering researcher, and surgeon | 11 Chadlington Road | 6 July 2019 |
| William Morfill | 1834–1909 | Linguist | 42 Park Town | 1 November 2009 |
| William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield | 1877–1963 | Car maker and philanthropist | 16 James Street | 25 April 2004 |
| Sir James Murray | 1837–1915 | Lexicographer | 78 Banbury Road | 21 October 2002 |
| Dame Iris Murdoch | 1919–1999 | Novelist, moral philosopher | 30 Charlbury Road, Oxford | 26 May 2023 |
| Joan Murray née Clarke | 1917–1996 | Cryptanalyst and numismatist | 7 Larkfields, Headington Quarry | 27 July 2019 |
| Paul Nash | 1889–1946 | Artist | 106 Banbury Road | 14 July 2007 |
| Oxford Park & Ride | 1973 | First enduring Park & Ride bus scheme in the UK | Redbridge Park & Ride, Abingdon Road | 1 November 2019 |
| Oxford Playhouse | 1923–1938 | Original auditorium and former Big Game Museum | 12 Woodstock Road | 14 October 2010 |
| Oxford United Football Club | 1893 | Foundation here as Headington F.C. | The Britannia, London Road, Headington | 27 October 2019 |
| Walter Pater Clara Pater | 1839–1894 1841–1910 | Author and scholar Pioneer of women's education | 2 Bradmore Road | 3 July 2004 |
| Penicillin | 1938–1941 | Development at Sir William Dunn School of Pathology | Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road | 29 May 2018 |
| Penicillin | 1941 | First treatment in 1941 at the former Radcliffe Infirmary Outpatients Building (now the University of Oxford Radcliffe Primary Care Health Sciences Building) | Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road | 29 May 2018 |
| Dame Margery Perham | 1895–1982 | Historian, key writer and adviser on African affairs | 5 Rawlinson Road | 1 June 2019 |
| Sir Edward Poulton Ronald Poulton (later Poulton Palmer) | 1856–1943 1889–1915 | FRS, evolutionary biologist Rugby football hero | Wykeham House, 56 Banbury Road | 11 June 2016 |
| Anne Ridler Vivian Ridler | 1912–2001 1913–2009 | Poet Printer | 14 Stanley Road | 16 September 2016 |
| Annie Rogers | 1856–1937 | Classicist, campaigner for women’s full membership of Oxford University | 35 St Giles', Oxford | 23 September 2020 |
| St Ignatius' Chapel | 1793 | First Roman Catholic church at Oxford after the Reformation | Angel Court, 81 St Clement's Street | 31 July 2018 |
| Sir Charles Sherrington | 1857–1952 | Neurophysiologist | 9 Chadlington Road | 28 April 2022 |
| Sir Francis Simon | 1893–1956 | Physicist and philanthropist | 10 Belbroughton Road | 6 December 2003 |
| Felicia Skene | 1821–1899 | Prison reformer | 34 St Michael's Street | 2 July 2002 |
| Revd W. A. Spooner | 1844–1930 | Warden of New College, Oxford and eponymous word transposer | 11 Keble Road | 19 October 2024 |
| Rev. Canon John Stansfeld | 1854–1939 | Priest and social reformer | Former St Ebbe's Rectory, Paradise Square | 26 June 2009 |
| Star Inn | 1794 | Formation of the Oxfordshire Yeomanry (later the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars) | 34 Cornmarket, now the Clarendon Centre | 8 November 2003 |
| Henry Taunt | 1842–1922 | Photographer | 393 Cowley Road | 10 January 2008 |
| Nikolaas Tinbergen | 1907–1988 | Pioneering ethologist, Nobel Laureate | 88 Lonsdale Road, Summertown | 8 June 2022 |
| J.R.R. Tolkien | 1892–1973 | Author and scholar | 20 Northmoor Road | 3 December 2002 |
| Willam Turner of Oxford | 1789–1862 | Artist | 16 St John Street | 29 October 2002 |
| Alan Villiers | 1903–1982 | Master of square-rigged ships, author, photographer | 1A Lucerne Road, Summertown | 6 May 2017 |
| Mary Augusta Ward (Mrs Humphry Ward) | 1851–1920 | Social reformer and novelist | 17 Bradmore Road | 28 April 2012 |
| William Wilkinson | 1819–1901 | Architect | 5 Beaumont Street | 19 October 2016 |
| Ivy Williams | 1877–1966 | Lawyer and university teacher, first woman to be called to the Bar of England and Wales | 12 King Edward Street | 21 September 2020 |
| Anthony Wood | 1632–1695 | Antiquarian | Postmasters' Hall, Merton Street | 28 April 2008 |

## Blue plaques elsewhere in Oxfordshire

Blue plaques elsewhere in Oxfordshire :
| Name | Date(s) | Notable for | Address | Unveiling |
| Mont Abbott | 1902–1989 | Carter, shepherd, and storyteller | Biddy’s Bottom, Fulwell | 23 June 2007 |
| Sir Patrick Abercrombie | 1879–1957 | Town Planner | Red House, Aston Upthorpe | 15 July 2023 |
| Ælfric Grammaticus | c.950–1010 | Scholar and teacher, first Abbot of Eynsham | Bartholomew Room, The Square, Eynsham | 1 July 2022 |
| John Alder | 1715–1780 | Lottery winner and public benefactor | The Mitre Inn, now 39 Stert Street, Abingdon-on-Thames | 24 April 2003 |
| H. H. Asquith | 1852–1928 | Prime Minister | 43 Church Street, Sutton Courtenay | 30 June 2012 |
| Alice Maud Batt | 1889–1969 | VAD, Albert Medal holder | Batt House, 16 Market Square, Witney | 1 October 2022 |
| Thomas Beecham | 1820–1907 | Manufacturer of patent medicines | Beecham Cottage, Curbridge | 21 May 2022 |
| Lord Berners | 1883–1950 | Composer, writer, artist, and eccentric | Faringdon Folly Tower, Faringdon | 6 April 2013 |
| Sir John Betjeman | 1906–1984 | Poet, writer, and broadcaster | Garrards Farmhouse, Uffington | 24 June 2006 |
| Sir William Blackstone | 1723–1780 | Judge and jurist | The Town Hall, Wallingford | 1 October 2009 |
| Janet Heatley Blunt | 1859–1950 | Folk song and morris dance collector | Le Hall Place, Manor Road, Adderbury | 27 September 2009 |
| Henry Boddington | 1813–1886 | Founder of Boddington’s Brewery | 14 (54) Wellington Street (site of former workhouse), Thame | 14 April 2011 |
| Edmund Bradstock | 1550–1607 | Benefactor to Appleford-on-Thames and Sutton Courtenay | Orchard House, Church Street, Appleford-on-Thames | 3 June 2017 |
| William Buckland | 1784–1856 | Geologist | The Old Rectory, Islip | 10 August 2008 |
| Alfredo Campoli | 1906–1991 | Violinist | 39 North Street, Thame | 14 April 2011 |
| William Carter | 1852–1921 | Founder of Carterton | Carterton Town Hall, Carterton | 30 March 2004 |
| Robin Cavendish | 1930–1994 | Responaut, champion of the severely disabled | The Old Rectory, Church Lane, Drayton St Leonard | 16 June 2019 |
| Agatha Christie Max Mallowan | 1890–1976 1904–1978 | Author Archaeologist | Winterbrook House, Cholsey | 8 May 2010 |
| The Countryman J. W. Robertson Scott | 1947–2003 1866–1962 | Magazine at Burford Founding editor | Greyhounds, Ship Street, Burford | 22 June 2014 |
| Sir Stafford Cripps | 1889–1952 | Politician and benefactor | The Village Centre, Filkins | 7 July 2007 |
| Wytton Perowne D'Arcy Dalton | 1893–1981 | Champion and protector of Public Rights of Way | The Limes (formerly Wyverns), Lower End, Great Milton | 18 August 2017 |
| General Sir Kenneth Darling | 1909–1998 | Soldier and General | Vicarage Farmhouse, Alchester Road, Chesterton | 4 July 2015 |
| William Henry Dines | 1855–1927 | Pioneering meteorologist | The Old Barn, Brook Street, Benson | 9 June 2018 |
| Charles Early | 1824–1912 | Blanket manufacturer | Witney Mill, Mill Street, Witney | 24 April 2009 |
| Frederick Etchells | 1886–1973 | Artist, architect, writer | The Thatched Cottage, West Challow | 20 July 2024 |
| Raymond ffennell | 1871–1944 | Philanthropist (with his wife Hope and daughter Hazel) | Hill End Centre, Farmoor | 20 August 2016 |
| James Figg | 1684–1734 | Prize fighter | James Figg pub (formerly the Greyhound Inn), Cornmarket, Thame | 14 April 2011 |
| Sir Terry Frost | 1915–2003 | Abstract artist | 2 Old Parr Street, Banbury | 15 July 2017 |
| Humphrey Gainsborough | 1718–1776 | Innovative engineer | Christ Church United Reformed Church, Reading Road, Henley-on-Thames | 1 September 2002 |
| Elizabeth Goudge | 1900–1984 | Artist | Rose Cottage, Rotherfield Peppard | 19 April 2008 |
| Kenneth Grahame | 1859–1932 | Author | Boham's House, Westbrook Street, Blewbury | 25 May 2012 |
| Robert Graves | 1895–1985 | Poet and writer | World’s End, Collice Street, Islip | 18 May 2014 |
| Roy Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead Dame Jennifer Jenkins | 1920–2003 1921–2017 | Politician and author Conservationist and public servant | St Amand's House, Church Street, East Hendred | 16 September 2023 |
| Larcum Kendall | 1721–1795 | Watchmaker | The Post Office (near site of cottage), 8 Market Street, Charlbury | 3 May 2014 |
| Cecil Kimber | 1888–1845 | Creator of the MG marque | Boundary House, Oxford Road, Abingdon-on-Thames | 4 October 2014 |
| Frank Howard Kirby | 1871–1956 | Royal Engineers and RAF | Wavertree, 18 Lower High Street, Thame | 10 September 2021 |
| Samuel Knibb Joseph Knibb John Knibb | 1625–c.1670 1640–1711 1650–1722 | Eminent clockmakers | The Church Room, Claydon | 25 September 2010 |
| F. W. T. C. Lascelles | 1875–1934 | Pageant master | The Manor, Sibford Gower | 24 October 2003 |
| William Logsdail | 1859–1944 | Artist | The Manor House, Noke | 13 July 2013 |
| William Penney, Baron Penney | 1909–1991 | Mathematical physicist and public servant | Orchard House, Cat Street, East Hendred | 8 August 2014 |
| William Potts | 1868–1949 | Author and editor of the Banbury Guardian | Former printing works, 16 Parson Street, Banbury | 30 April 2002 |
| Arthur Edwin Preston | 1852–1942 | Mayor, antiquarian, and historian of Abingdon | Whitefield, Park Crescent, Abingdon-on-Thames | 12 June 2015 |
| Barbara Pym | 1913–1980 | Novelist | Barn Cottage, Finstock | 1 September 2006 |
| Ripon Hall, Oxford | 1933–1975 | Former Church of England Theological College | Foxcome Hall, Boars Hill | 27 May 2004 |
| Francis Edward Robinson | 1833–1910 | Clergyman and doyen of bell ringers | St Peter’s Church, Drayton, Abingdon-on-Thames | 22 May 2016 |
| L. T. C. Rolt | 1910–1974 | Engineering historian, champion of Inland Waterways | Tooley's Boatyard, Banbury | 7 August 2010 |
| Sir Bernhard Samuelson | 1820–1905 | Industrialist and educationist | Mechanics Institute, now Banbury Library, Marlborough Road, Banbury | 30 April 2002 |
| Samuel Edgar Saunders | 1857–1933 | Boat builder and engineer, pioneer of air and marine craft | Former boathouse and showroom by bridge, Goring-on-Thames | 7 September 2013 |
| Freydis Sharland | 1920–2014 | ‘Spitfire Girl’, Air Transport Auxiliary | Chalkstone Cottage, 40 Brook Street, Benson, Oxfordshire | 18 May 2024 |
| James Allen Shuffrey | 1859–1939 | Artist | 7 Narrow Hill, Woodgreen, Witney | 17 May 2008 |
| James Allen Shuffrey | 1859–1939 | Artist | 7 Narrow Hill, Woodgreen, Witney | 17 May 2008 |
| Patrick Steptoe | 1913–1988 | Gynaecologist, pioneer of IVF | 52 West End, Witney | 5 May 2019 |
| Revd Edward Stone | 1702–1768 | Discoverer of aspirin | Hitchman’s Brewery, Chipping Norton | 1 October 2003 |
| Sir Montagu Stopford | 1892–1971 | Burma Campaign | Rock Hill, Chipping Norton | 8 July 2008 |
| Reginald Tiddy | 1880–1916 | Collector of folk plays and local benefactor | Tiddy Hall, Ascott-under-Wychwood | 8 September 2012 |
| Jethro Tull | 1674–1741 | Inventor of the seed drill | 19A The Street, Crowmarsh Gifford | 17 September 2002 |
| Daniel Turner | 1710–1798 | Baptist minister, theologian, hymn writer | 35 Ock Street, Abingdon-on-Thames | 17 July 2011 |
| Westfield House | 1937–1939 | Refuge for Basque Children | Bampton Road, Aston | 17 July 2003 |
| Alfred White | 1804–1876 | Innkeeper, church bellhanger, founder of Whites of Appleton | The Greyhound, Besselsleigh | 26 July 2014 |
| Wytham Woods | 1942 | Bequest | Keeper’s Hill Car Park, Wytham | 7 October 2017 |