Plaques awarded
The following Oxfordshire Blue Plaques have been erected in the city and county. Biographical details are linked to the names below.
Follow this pointer (which appears at the foot of each page) to view all the plaques alphabetically
Oxford City (MAP showing sites)
See the Wikipedia page for the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board for a table of all the plaques within the city that can be sorted by surname, date of birth/inception, or date of unveiling (just click the grey column headings, and click a second time if you want the most recent unveiling etc to appear first)
- Sarah Angelina ACLAND (1849–1930), Photographer
10 Park Town, Oxford - Andrea ANGEL (1877–1917), Oxford Chemist, Home Front Hero
15 Banbury Road, Oxford - Ronnie BARKER (1929–2005), Actor and comedian
23 Church Cowley Road, Oxford - Abel BEESLEY (1851–1921), Waterman and punting legend
4 Upper Fisher Row, Oxford - Frank BELLAMY (1863–1936), Astronomer and philatelist, with his niece,
Ethel BELLAMY (1881–1960), Seismologist, astronomer
2 Winchester Road, Oxford - Richard Meux BENSON (1824–1915), Vicar of Cowley and benefactor, founder of the Society of
St John the Evangelist
Former Mission House, 16 Marston Street, Oxford - Sir Isaiah BERLIN (1909–1997), Historian of ideas
Headington House, Old High Street, Headington, Oxford - Elizabeth BOWEN (1899–1973), Writer
The Coach House, The Croft, Headington, Oxford - John Henry BROOKES (1891–1975), Artist, craftsman, educationist
195 The Slade, Headington, Oxford - Edward BROOKS VC (1883–1944), Company Sergeant Major
16 Windsor Street, Headington, Oxford - Rhoda BROUGHTON (1840–1920), Novelist
“River View”, Headington Hill, Oxford - John Chessell BUCKLER (1793–1894), Artist, antiquarian, architect
58 Holywell Street, Oxford - Jane BURDEN (Mrs William Morris) 1839–1914, Pre-Raphaelite Muse
St Helen’s Passage, off New College Lane, Oxford - Violet BUTLER (1884–1982), Social reformer, social work trainer
14 Norham Gardens, Oxford - Nirad C. CHAUDHURI (1897–1999), Writer
20 Lathbury Road, Oxford - Captain Noel Godfrey CHAVASSE (1884–1917), V.C. and Bar
Magdalen College School, Oxford - CHIANG Yee (1903–1977), Artist and writer
28 Southmoor Road, Oxford - CIVIL WAR: Surrender of Oxford (1646)
“Cromwell House”, 17 Mill Lane, Old Marston, Oxford - Thomas COMBE (1796–1872) and Martha COMBE (1806–1893),
Founders of St Barnabas, philanthropists and patrons of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
St Barnabas’ Church, Jericho, Oxford - Sarah Jane COOPER (1848–1932), Marmalade maker
83 High Street, Oxford - CUTTESLOWE WALLS (1934–1959)
34 Aldrich Road, Oxford - Sir Richard DOLL (1912–2005), Epidemiologist
12 Rawlinson Road, Oxford - George Claridge DRUCE frs (1850–1932), Botanist, pharmacist, mayor
118 High Street, Oxford - Daniel EVANS (1769–1846) and Joshua SYMM (1809–1887), Oxford builders
34 St Giles’, Oxford - Mabel Purefoy FitzGERALD (1872–1973) Physiologist
12 Crick Road, Oxford - Philippa FOOT (1920–2010), Moral Philosopher
15 Walton Street, Oxford - Maureen GARDNER (1928–1974), Athlete, ballet teacher
17 Maidcroft Road, Cowley, Oxford - Olive GIBBS (1918–1995), Councillor and campaigner
Staircase 3, Christ Church Old Buildings, Oxford - Gathorne Robert GIRDLESTONE (1881–1950), Pioneering orthopaedic surgeon
Nuffield Staff Accommodation, 72–74 Old Road, Headington, Oxford - Sir Ludwig GUTTMANN (1899–1980), Neurosurgeon
63 Lonsdale Road, Oxford - Grace HADOW (1875–1940), Educationist, community services pioneer
7 Fyfield Road, Oxford - J. S. HALDANE (1860–1936), Physiologist
11 Crick Road, Oxford - Norman HEATLEY (1911–2004), Biochemist, key member of the Oxford penicillin team
12 Oxford Road, Old Marston, Oxford - Dorothy Crowfoot HODGKIN, om, frs (1910–1994), Crystallographer, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
94 Woodstock Road, Oxford - Cecil JACKSON-COLE (1901–1979), Philanthropist, founding member of Oxfam
17 Broad Street, Oxford - William KIMBER (1872–1961), Headington Quarry morris dancer and musician
42 St Anne’s Road, Headington, Oxford - Thomas Henry KINGERLEE (1843–1928), Major Oxford builder
The River Hotel, 17 Botley Road, Oxford - Sir Leslie KIRKLEY (1911–1989), Humanitarian, Director of Oxfam
25 Capel Close, Summertown, Oxford - Sir Hans KREBS (1900–1981), Biochemist and Nobel Laureate
27 Abberbury Road, Iffley, Oxford - Edmund Arnold Greening LAMBORN (1877–1950)
Headmaster, local historian, ‘Man of letters’, benefactor
34 Oxford Road, Littlemore, Oxford - Professor James LEGGE (1815–1897), Sinologist and missionary
3 Keble Road, Oxford - C. S. LEWIS (1898–1963), Scholar and author
The Kilns, Lewis Close, Headington Quarry, Oxford - Salvador de MADARIAGA, Statesman, scholar, and writer
Box Tree House, 3 St Andrew’s Road, Old Headington, Oxford - Mary McMASTER (1914–2004), Physiotherapist, founder of St Luke’s Hospital and McMaster House
Latimer Road, Headington, Oxford - Percy MANNING (1870–1917), Antiquary and folklorist
300 Banbury Road, Summertown - Chassar MOIR (1900–1977), Gynaecologist, pioneering researcher, and surgeon
11 Chadlington Road, Oxford - William Richard MORFILL (1834–1909), First Professor of Russian and Slavonic Languages
42 Park Town, Oxford - William Richard MORRIS, Viscount Nuffield (1877–1963), Car-maker and philanthropist
16 James Street, Cowley, Oxford - MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) Scanner (1980)
King’s Centre, Osney Mead, Oxford - Dame Iris MURDOCH (1919–1999)
30 Charlbury Road, Oxford - Sir James MURRAY (1837–1915), Lexicographer and Editor of the OED
78 Banbury Road, Oxford - Joan MURRAY (née Clarke) (1917–1996), Cryptanalyst, numismatist
7 Larkfields, Headington Quarry, Oxford - Paul NASH (1889–1946), Artist
106 Banbury Road, Oxford - OXFORD PARK AND RIDE, First enduring Park & Ride bus scheme in the UK, launched in 1973
Redbridge Park & Ride, Abingdon Road, Oxford - OXFORD PLAYHOUSE: First auditorium (1923–1938) and former Big Game Museum
12 Woodstock Road, Oxford - OXFORD UNITED FOOTBALL CLUB, Foundation as Headington F.C. on 27 October 1893
Britannia Inn, Lime Walk/London Road, Headington, Oxford - Walter PATER (1838–1894), Author and scholar, and
Clara PATER (1841–1910), pioneer of women’s education
2 Bradmore Road, Oxford - PENICILLIN:
First isolation and purification byHoward Florey, Ernest Chain, Norman Heatley, & colleagues(1938–1941)
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road, Oxford - PENICILLIN:
First treatment (12 February 1941)
Former Outpatients Building of Radcliffe Infirmary, Woodstock Road, Oxford - Dame Margery PERHAM (1895–1982), Historian, writer, Africanist
5 Rawlinson Road, Oxford - Professor Sir Edward POULTON, frs (1856–1943), Evolutionary biologist,
and
Ronald POULTON (later Poulton Palmer) (1889–1915), Rugby football hero
Wykeham House, 56 Banbury Road, Oxford - Anne RIDLER (1912–2001), Poet, and Vivian RIDLER (1913–2009), Printer
14 Stanley Road, Oxford - Annie ROGERS (1856–1937), Classicist, campaigner for women’s full membership of Oxford University
35 St Giles’, Oxford - ST IGNATIUS CHAPEL (1793), First Roman Catholic church at Oxford after the Reformation
Angel Court, 91 St Clement's Street, Oxford - Sir Charles SHERRINGTON (1857–1952), Neurophysiologist, Nobel Laureate
9 Chadlington Road, Oxford - Sir Francis SIMON (1893–1956), Low-temperature physicist and philanthropist
10 Belbroughton Road, Oxford - Felicia SKENE (1821–1899), Prison reformer and friend of the poor
34 St Michael’s Street, Oxford - John STANSFELD (1854–1939), Parish priest, doctor
Former Rectory, Paradise Square, St Ebbe’s, Oxford - STAR INN, Oxfordshire Yeomanry (1794)
34 Cornmarket Street (Clarendon Centre), Oxford - SUB-FOUR MINUTE MILE (1954)
Oxford University Sports Ground, Iffley Road, Oxford - Henry TAUNT (1842–1922), Photographer
393 Cowley Road, Oxford - Nikolaas TINBERGEN (1907–1988), Pioneering ethologist, Nobel Laureate
88 Lonsdale Road, Oxford - John Ronald Reuel TOLKIEN (1892–1973), Author and scholar
20 Northmoor Road, Oxford - William TURNER ‘of Oxford’ (1789–1862), Artist
16 St John Street, Oxford - Alan VILLIERS (1903–1982), Master of square-rigged ships, author, photographer
1A Lucerne Road, Summertown, Oxford - Mary Arnold WARD (Mrs Humphry WARD) (1851–1920), Social reformer, novelist
17 Bradmore Road, Oxford - William WILKINSON (1819–1901), Architect
5 Beaumont Street, Oxford - Ivy WILLIAMS (1877–1966), Lawyer and university teacher, first woman to be called to the Bar of England and Wales
12 King Edward Street, Oxford - Anthony à WOOD (1632–1695), Antiquary
Postmasters’ Hall, Merton Street, Oxford
The rest of Oxfordshire
See the Wikipedia page for the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board for a table of all the Oxfordshire plaques outside the city that can be sorted by surname, date of birth/inception, or date of unveiling (just click the grey column headings, and click a second time if you want the most recent unveiling to appear first)
(1) Cherwell (MAP showing sites)
- Janet Heatley BLUNT (1859–1950), Folk song and morris dance collector
Le Hall Place, Adderbury - William BUCKLAND (1784–1856), Geologist, Dean of Westminster
The Old Rectory, Islip - General Sir Kenneth DARLING (1909–1998), Soldier and General
Vicarage Farmhouse, Chesterton - Sir Terry FROST (1915–2003), Abstract artist
2 Old Parr Road, Banbury - Robert GRAVES (1895–1985), Poet and writer
World's end, Collice Street, Islip - KNIBB: Samuel (1625–c.1670); Joseph (1640–1711);
John (1650–1722), Clockmakers
The Church Room, Claydon - Frank LASCELLES (1875–1934), Pageant Master
Manor House, Temple Mill Road, Sibford Gower, near Banbury - William LOGSDAIL (1859–1944), Artist
The Manor House, Noke - William POTTS (1868–1949), Author and editor of the Banbury Guardian
16 Parson Street, Banbury - L. T. C. (Tom) ROLT (1910–1974), Engineering historian, champion of Inland Waterways
Towpath entrance to Tooley’s Boatyard, Banbury - Sir Bernhard SAMUELSON (1820–1905), Industrialist and educationist
Banbury Library (formerly The Mechanics Institute), Banbury
(2) South Oxfordshire (MAP showing sites)
- Sir Patrick ABERCROMBIE (1879–1957), Town and country planner
Red House, Moreton Road, Aston Upthorpe, near Didcot - Sir William BLACKSTONE (1723–1780), Judge and jurist
Wallingford Town Hall - Henry BODDINGTON (1813–1886), Brewer
14 (54) Wellington Street, Thame (site of former workhouse) - Alfred CAMPOLI (1906–1991), Violinist
39 North street, Thame - Robin CAVENDISH (1930–1994), Responaut, champion of the severely disabled
The Old Rectory, Church Lane, Drayton St Leonard - Dame Agatha CHRISTIE (1890–1976), Author, with her husband,
Sir Max MALLOWAN (1904–1978), Archaeologist
Winterbrook House, Cholsey - Wytton Perowne D’Arcy DALTON (1893–1981), Champion and protector of Public Rights of Way
The Limes (formerly Wyverns), Lower End, Great Milton - William Henry DINES (1855–1927), Pioneering meteorologist
The Old Barn (near site of Colne House), Brook Street, Benson - James FIGG (1684–1734), Prize Fighter
The James Figg Pub (formerly The Greyhound Inn), Cornmarket, Thame - Humphrey GAINSBOROUGH (1718–1776), Innovative engineer
Christ Church United Reformed Church, Reading Road, Henley-on-Thames - Elizabeth GOUDGE (1900–1984), Writer
Rose Cottage, Peppard Common, near Henley-on-Thames - Frank H. KIRBY, vc (1871–1956), Royal Engineers and RAF
Wavertree, 18 Lower High Street, Thame - Samuel E. SAUNDERS (1857–1933), Boat builder and engineer, pioneer of air and marine craft
Former boathouse and showroom by the bridge at Goring-on-Thames - Jethro TULL (1674–1741), Agriculturalist and inventor of the seed drill
19A The Street, Crowmarsh Gifford
(3) Vale of White Horse (MAP showing sites)
- John ALDER (c.1712–1780), Lottery winner and public benefactor
39 Stert Street, Abingdon (formerly the Mitre Inn) - H. H. ASQUITH (1852–1928), Prime Minister
The Wharf, 43 Church Street, Sutton Courtenay - Lord BERNERS, Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron (1883–1950), Composer, writer, artist, eccentric
Faringdon Folly Tower, Folly Hill, Faringdon (access lane from Stanford Road) - Sir John BETJEMAN (1906–1984), Poet, writer and broadcaster
Garrards Farmhouse, Uffington - Edmund BRADSTOCK (d.1607), Local benefactor to the poor
Orchard House, Church Street, Appleford - Raymond FFENNELL (1871–1944), Philanthropist, with Hope his wife and daughter Hazel
Hill End Centre, Farmoor - Kenneth GRAHAME (1859–1932), Author
Boham’s House, Westbrook Street, Blewbury - Roy JENKINS, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead (1920–2003), Politician and author
Dame Jennifer JENKINS (1921–2017), Conservationist and public servant
St Amand’s House, Church Street, East Hendred - Cecil KIMBER (1888–1945), Creator of the MG marque
The Boundary House, Oxford Road, Abingdon - William PENNEY, Baron Penney of East Hendred (1909–1991), Mathematical physicist and public servant
Orchard House, Cat Street, East Hendred - Arthur Edwin PRESTON (1852–1942), Mayor and Antiquary, Historian of the borough, and restorer of its ancient buildings
Whitefield, Park Crescent, Abingdon - RIPON HALL, former Liberal Anglican Theological College (1933–1975)
Foxcombe Hall, Boar’s Hill - The Revd F. E. ROBINSON (1833–1910), Founding Master of Oxford Diocesan Guild of Bell Ringers
St Peter's Church, Drayton - Daniel TURNER (1710–1798), Baptist Minister, theologian, hymn writer
35 Ock Street, Abingdon - Alfred WHITE (1804–1876), Innkeeper, church bellhanger, founder of Whites of Appleton
The Greyhound, Besselsleigh - Wytham Woods (1942), Bequest
Keepers’ Hill Car Park, Wytham
(4) West Oxfordshire (MAP showing sites)
- Mont ABBOTT (1902–1989), Carter, shepherd, storyteller
Biddy’s Bottom, Fulwell, Enstone - ÆLFRIC GRAMMATICUS (c.950–1010), Scholar and teacher, first Abbot of Eynsham
- Alice Maud BATT (1889–1969), Volunteer nurse in WWI, Albert Medal holder
- Thomas BEECHAM (1820–1907), Manufacturer of patent medicines
Beecham Cottage, Curbridge - William CARTER (1852–1921), Founder of Carterton
Town Hall, Carterton - The COUNTRYMAN magazine at Burford (1949–2003) AND
J. W. Robertson Scott (1866–1962), founding editor
Greyhounds, Sheep Street, Burford - Sir Stafford CRIPPS (1889–1952), Statesman and benefactor
The Village Centre, Filkins - Charles EARLY (1824–1912), Blanket manufacturer
Witney Mill - Larcum KENDALL (1719–1790), Watchmaker
Post Office, 8 Market Street, Charlbury, near site of cottage - Barbara PYM (1913–1980), Novelist
Barn Cottage, High Street, Finstock - James Allen SHUFFREY (1859–1939), Artist
7 Narrow Hill, Woodgreen - William SMITH (1815–1875), Blanket manufacturer
8 Bridge Street, Witney - Patrick STEPTOE (1913–1988), Gynaecologist, pioneer of IVF
52 West End, Witney - Revd Edward STONE (1702–1768), Discoverer of the active ingredient in aspirin
Former Hitchman Brewery, West Street, Chipping Norton - General Sir Montagu STOPFORD (1892–1971), Burma Campaign
Rock Hill, Chipping Norton - Reginald TIDDY (1880–1916), Collector of folk plays, local benefactor
Tiddy Hall (the Village Hall), Ascott-under-Wychwood - WESTFIELD HOUSE, Refuge for Basque children (1937–1939)
Aston, near Bampton