Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board

Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board
The plaque commemorating Thomas and Martha Combe in Jericho, Oxford.

The Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board, established in 1999, is administered by the Oxford Civic Society. It oversees the installation of blue plaques on historic buildings in the county of Oxfordshire, England to commemorate famous residents and events. The Board is currently chaired by the Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire.

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Blue plaques in the City of Oxford

The Roger Bannister running track on Iffley Road.
  • Iffley Road Track, scene of the first sub-four-minute mile by Roger Bannister on 6 May 1954 (12 May 2004)
  • Walter Pater (1839–1894), author and scholar, and his sister Clara Pater (1841–1910), pioneer of women’s education, at 2 Bradmore Road (3 July 2004)
  • Daniel Evans (1769–1846) and Joshua Symm (1809–1887), designers and builders of many Oxford buildings at 34 St Giles' (19 October 2004)
  • Noel Chavasse (1884–1917) VC and Bar, at Magdalen College School (30 September 2005)
  • The Cutteslowe Walls (1934–1959), at 34 Aldrich Road (9 March 2006)
  • Gathorne Robert Girdlestone (1881–1950), pioneering orthopaedic surgeon, at Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre Staff Accommodation, 72–74 Old Road, Headington, site of the Red House (9 May 2006)
  • Thomas Combe (1796–1872), printer, and Martha Combe (1806–1893), patron of the arts, at St Barnabas Church, Oxford (25 February 2007)
  • Magnetic resonance imaging scanner (1980), at The King's Centre, Osney Mead (14 May 2007)
  • Paul Nash (1889–1946), artist, at 106 Banbury Road, Oxford (14 July 2007)
  • Jane Burden (1839–1914), pre-Raphaelite model and wife of William Morris, at St Helen's Passage, Oxford (19 October 2007)
  • Henry Taunt (1842–1922), photographer, 393 Cowley Road, Oxford (10 January 2008)
  • Anthony Wood (1632–1695), antiquarian, Postmasters' Hall, Merton Street, Oxford (28 April 2008)
  • Sir Hans Krebs (1900–1981), biochemist, at 27 Abberbury Road, Iffley (7 June 2008)
  • C.S. Lewis (1898–1963), academic and author, at The Kilns, Lewis Close, Headington Quarry (26 July 2008)
  • Nirad Chaudhuri (1897–1999), writer, at 20 Lathbury Road (4 October 2008)
  • John Scott Haldane (1860–1936), physiologist, at 11 Crick Road (2 May 2009)
  • Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997), historian of ideas, at Headington House, Old High Street, Headington (7 June 2009)
  • Rev. Canon John Stansfeld (1854–1939), priest and social reformer, at the former St Ebbe's Rectory, Paradise Square (26 June 2009)
  • William Morfill (1834-1909), linguist, at 42 Park Town (1 November 2009)
  • Norman Heatley (1911–2004), biochemist, at 12 Oxford Road, Old Marston (17 July 2010)
  • Edmund Arnold Greening Lamborn (1877–1950), Headmaster, local historian, “Man of letters”, benefactor, at 34 Oxford Road, Littlemore (18 September 2010)
  • Oxford Playhouse original auditorium (1923–1938) and former Big Game Museum at 12 Woodstock Road (14 October 2010)
  • John Henry Brookes (1891–1975), artist, craftsman, educationist, at 195 The Slade, Headington, Oxford (16 March 2011)
  • William Kimber (1872–1961), Headington Quarry morris dancer and musician, at 42 St Anne’s Road, Headington (30 May 2011)
  • Salvador de Madariaga (1886–1978), statesman, scholar and writer, Boxtrees, 3 St Andrew's Road, Headington, Oxford (15 October 2011)

Blue plaques elsewhere in Oxfordshire

  • Sir Bernhard Samuelson (1820–1905), industrialist and educationist, at the Mechanics Institute, now Banbury Library, Marlborough Road, Banbury (30 April 2002)
  • William Potts (1868–1949), author, and editor of the Banbury Guardian, at the former printing works, 16 Parson Street, Banbury (30 April 2002)
  • Humphrey Gainsborough (1718–1776), innovative engineer, at Christ Church United Reformed Church, Reading Road, Henley-on-Thames (1 September 2002)
  • Jethro Tull (1674–1741), inventor of the seed drill, at 19A The Street, Crowmarsh Gifford (17 September 2002)
  • John Alder (1715–1780), lottery winner and public benefactor, at The Mitre Inn, now 39 Stert Street, Abingdon (24 April 2003)
  • Westfield House, Aston, refuge for Basque children 1937–1939 (17 July 2003)
  • Rev. Edward Stone (1702–1768), discoverer of aspirin, at Hitchman's Brewery, Chipping Norton (1 October 2003)
  • F.W.T.C. Lascelles (1875–1934), pageant master, at The Manor, Sibford Gower (24 October 2003)
  • William Carter (1852–1920), founder of Carterton in 1900, at Carterton Town Hall (30 March 2004)
  • Ripon Hall, Oxford (1933–1975), former Church of England Theological College, at Foxcombe Hall, Boars Hill (27 May 2004)
  • Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984), poet, writer and broadcaster, at Garrards Farmhouse, Uffington (24 June 2006)
  • Barbara Pym (1913–1980), novelist, at Barn Cottage, Finstock (1 September 2006)
  • Mont Abbott (1902–1989), carter, shepherd and storyteller, at Biddy's Bottom, Fulwell, (23 June 2007)
  • Sir Stafford Cripps (1889–1952), politician and benefactor, at The Village Centre, Filkins, (7 July 2007)
  • Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984), artist, at Rose Cottage, Rotherfield Peppard (19 April 2008)
  • James Allen Shuffrey (1859–1939), artist, at 7 Narrow Hill, Woodgreen, Witney, Oxfordshire (17 May 2008)
  • Lieutenant-General Sir Montagu Stopford (1892–1971), Burma campaign, at Rock Hill, Chipping Norton (8 July 2008)
  • William Buckland (1784–1856), geologist, at the Old Rectory, Islip (10 August 2008)
  • Charles Early (1824–1912), blanket manufacturer, at Witney Mill, Mill Street, Witney (24 April 2009)
  • William Smith (1815–1875), blanket manufacturer, at 8 Bridge Street, Witney (24 April 2009)
  • Janet Heatley Blunt (1859–1950), folk song and morris dance collector, at Le Hall Place, Manor Road, Adderbury (27 September 2009)
  • Sir William Blackstone (1723–1780), judge and jurist, at the Town Hall, Wallingford (1 October 2009)
  • Agatha Christie (1890-1976), author, and her husband Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan (1904–1978), archaeologist, at Winterbrook House, Cholsey (8 May 2010)
  • L.T.C. Rolt (1910–1974), engineering historian, champion of Inland Waterways, at Tooley's Boatyard, Banbury (7 August 2010)
  • Samuel Knibb (1625–c.1670), Joseph Knibb (1640–1711), and John Knibb (1650–1722), eminent clockmakers, at the Church Room, Claydon (25 September 2010)
  • Henry Boddington (1813–1886), brewer, at 14 (54) Wellington Street, Thame (site of former workhouse) (14 April 2011)
  • Alfredo Campoli (1906–1991), violinist, at 39 North Street, Thame (14 April 2011)
  • James Figg (1684–1734), prize fighter, at the James Figg Pub (formerly the Greyhound Inn), Cornmarket, Thame (14 April 2011)
  • Daniel Turner (1710–1798), Baptist minister, theologian, hymn writer, at 35 Ock Street, Abingdon (17 July 2011)

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