Lonsdale Road Explained

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]

Notable residents

There have been a number of notable residents of Lonsdale Road, especially scientists, including two Nobel Prize winners.^[6] The following have been residents in the road:

• Sir Ludwig Guttmann (1899–1980), neurologist.^[7]
• John Herivel (1918–2011), mathematician, World War II codebreaker at Bletchley Park and historian of science.^[8]
• Sir Peter Hirsch (born 1925), metallurgist.^[9]
• Tony Honoré (1921–2019), lawyer and jurist.^[10]
• Dame Louise Johnson (1940–2012), biochemist and protein crystallographer.
• Bertram Mandelbrote (1923–2010), psychiatrist and pioneer of mental healthcare.^{[11] [12]}
• Jean Robinson, healthcare campaigner.^{[13] [14]}
• Abdus Salam (1926–1996), physicist, Nobel Laureate in Physics (1979).
• Paul Thompson (born 1935), sociologist and pioneer of oral history.^[15]
• Niko Tinbergen (1907–1988), biologist and ornithologist, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine.^[16]
• 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 Tinbergen^[17] and Ludwig Guttmann.^[18] The third, to John Herivel, is a private one created and installed by his daughter Susan.^[19]

References

51.7799°N -1.2622°W

Notes and References

1. Book: Kinchin, Perilla . Seven Roads in Summertown: Voices from an Oxford Suburb . White Cockade Publishing . 2006 . 187348713-4 .
2. Web site: Lonsdale Road on Oxford Street Map . Oxford.StreetMapOf.co.uk . UK . 29 December 2015 .
3. Web site: St Michael & All Angels . 29 December 2015 .
4. Book: The Origins of Oxford Street Names . . Lonsdale Road . 2010 . 146 . 978-1-899536-99-3 . Symonds . Ann Spokes . Morgan . Nigel .
5. Kinchin (2006), page 222.
6. Kinchin (2006), page 84.
7. Kinchin (2006), pages 80–81.
8. Kinchin (2006), pages 82–83, 148, 216–217.
9. Kinchin (2006), page 85.
10. Book: Lonsdale Road . 385–386 . Kelly's Directory of Oxford, 1976 . 1975 . 68th . .
11. Kinchin (2006), pages 87–88.
12. News: Peter . Agulnik . Bertram Mandelbrote obituary: Pioneering psychiatrist who helped transform mental hospitals . . 23 January 2011 . 30 December 2015 .
13. Kinchin (2006), pages 88–90.
14. Book: Philosophical Ethics in Reproductive Medicine . viii . David R. . Bromham . Maureen E. . Dalton . Jennifer C. . Jackson . . 1990 . 978-0719030130 .
15. Kinchin (2006), page 91.
16. Kinchin (2006), pages 84–85.
17. http://www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/tinbergen.html
18. http://www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/guttmann.html
19. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-27341855