Lonsdale Road
{{Short description|Road in Summertown, North Oxford, England}}
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Lonsdale Road is a residential road in Summertown, north Oxford, England.{{cite book | title=Seven Roads in Summertown: Voices from an Oxford Suburb | publisher=White Cockade Publishing | year=2006 | isbn=187348713-4 | last=Kinchin | first=Perilla }}
The road runs between Banbury Road to the west and the River Cherwell to the east.{{cite web| url=http://oxford.streetmapof.co.uk/lonsdale-road/ | title=Lonsdale Road on Oxford Street Map | website=Oxford.StreetMapOf.co.uk | location=UK | accessdate=29 December 2015 }} 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.{{cite web| url=http://www.stmichaels-summertown.org.uk/ | title=St Michael & All Angels | accessdate=29 December 2015 }}
Lonsdale Road is named after the Earl of Lonsdale.{{cite book| title=The Origins of Oxford Street Names | publisher=Robert Boyd Publications | chapter=Lonsdale Road | date=2010 | page=146 |isbn=978-1-899536-99-3 | last1=Symonds | first1=Ann Spokes | last2=Morgan | first2=Nigel }} The road was named in 1905 although the first houses in the road were erected from 1902.Kinchin (2006), page 222.
File:John Herivel's house in Oxford.jpg's house in Lonsdale Road, with a blue plaque erected by his daughter.{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-27341855 | title=WW2 Bletchley Park codebreaker John Herivel awarded plaque | date=10 May 2014 | work=BBC News | publisher=BBC | location=UK | accessdate=29 December 2015 }}{{Open Plaques|plaqueid=31149}}]]
Notable residents
There have been a number of notable residents of Lonsdale Road, especially scientists, including two Nobel Prize winners.Kinchin (2006), page 84. The following have been residents in the road:
- Sir Ludwig Guttmann (1899–1980), neurologist.Kinchin (2006), pages 80–81.
- John Herivel (1918–2011), mathematician, World War II codebreaker at Bletchley Park and historian of science.Kinchin (2006), pages 82–83, 148, 216–217.
- Sir Peter Hirsch (born 1925), metallurgist.Kinchin (2006), page 85.
- Tony Honoré (1921–2019), lawyer and jurist.{{cite book| chapter=Lonsdale Road | pages=385–386 | title=Kelly's Directory of Oxford, 1976 | date=1975 | edition=68th | publisher=IPC Business Press }}
- Dame Louise Johnson (1940–2012), biochemist and protein crystallographer.
- Bertram Mandelbrote (1923–2010), psychiatrist and pioneer of mental healthcare.Kinchin (2006), pages 87–88.{{cite news| first=Peter | last=Agulnik | url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/jan/23/bertram-mandelbrote-obituary | title=Bertram Mandelbrote obituary: Pioneering psychiatrist who helped transform mental hospitals | newspaper=The Guardian | date=23 January 2011 | accessdate=30 December 2015 }}
- Jean Robinson, healthcare campaigner.Kinchin (2006), pages 88–90.{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MGS7AAAAIAAJ&q=Jean+Robinson&pg=PR8 | page=viii | title=Philosophical Ethics in Reproductive Medicine | first1=David R. | last1=Bromham | first2=Maureen E. | last2=Dalton | first3=Jennifer C. | last3=Jackson | publisher=Manchester University Press | date=1990 | isbn=978-0719030130 }}
- Abdus Salam (1926–1996), physicist, Nobel Laureate in Physics (1979).
- Paul Thompson (born 1935), sociologist and pioneer of oral history.Kinchin (2006), page 91.
- Niko Tinbergen (1907–1988), biologist and ornithologist, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine.Kinchin (2006), pages 84–85.
- 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 Tinbergenhttp://www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/tinbergen.html and Ludwig Guttmann.http://www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/guttmann.html The third, to John Herivel, is a private one created and installed by his daughter Susan.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-27341855
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