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Lonsdale Road

Lonsdale Road is a residential road in Summertown, north Oxford, England.

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Map of Lonsdale Rd, Oxford OX2 7ES, UK

The road runs between Banbury Road to the west and the River Cherwell to the east. 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.

Lonsdale Road is named after the Earl of Lonsdale. The road was named in 1905 although the first houses in the road were erected from 1902.

Notable residents

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

  • Sir Ludwig Guttmann (1899–1980), neurologist.
  • John Herivel (1918–2011), mathematician, World War II codebreaker at Bletchley Park, and historian of science.
  • Sir Peter Hirsch (born 1925), metallurgist.
  • Tony Honoré (born 1921), lawyer and jurist.
  • Dame Louise Johnson (1940–2012), biochemist and protein crystallographer.
  • Bertram Mandelbrote (1923–2010), psychiatrist and pioneer of mental healthcare.
  • Jean Robinson, healthcare campaigner.
  • Abdus Salam (1926–1996), physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics (1979).
  • Paul Thompson (born 1935), sociologist and pioneer of oral history.
  • Niko Tinbergen (1907–1988), biologist, ornithologist, and Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine.

    • References

    Lonsdale Road Wikipedia
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