The Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board established in 1999 was the brainchild of Sir Hugo Brunner, then Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, and Edwin Townsend-Coles, Chairman of the Oxford Civic Society. The Board is an autonomous voluntary body whose members are drawn from cultural organisations and local government across the county. It awards and installs blue plaques on buildings in Oxford and Oxfordshire to commemorate very remarkable residents and, occasionally, historic events. For more detailed information, see the Board's website. __TOC__
Blue plaques in the City of Oxford + Blue plaques in the City of Oxford Name Date(s) Notable for Address UnveilingSarah Angelina Acland1849–1930Photographer10 Park Town24 July 2016Andrea Angel1877–1917Oxford chemist and home-front hero15 Banbury Road14 July 2018Ronnie Barker1929–2005Actor and comedian23 Church Cowley Road29 September 2012 Abel Beesley1851–1921Waterman and punting legend4 Upper Fisher Row26 June 20212 Winchester Road8 October 2019Richard Meux Benson1824–1915Vicar of Cowley and benefactor, founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist16 Marston Street9 May 2013Sir Isaiah Berlin1909–1997Philosopher, historian of ideasHeadington House, Old High Street, Headington7 June 2009Beatrice Mary Blackwood1889–1975Anthropologist, museum curator45 Walton Street29 May 2026Elizabeth Bowen1899–1973AuthorThe Coach House, The Croft, Headington19 October 2014John Henry Brookes1891–1975Artist, craftsman, educationist195 The Slade, Headington16 March 2011Edward Brooks (VC)1883–1944Company Sergeant Major16 Windsor Street, Headington29 July 2017Rhoda Broughton1840–1920Popular novelist, independent woman, and witRiver View, Headington Hill22 October 2020John Chessell Buckler1793–1894Artist, antiquarian, architect58 Holywell Street30 October 2015Jane Burden1839–1914Pre-Raphaelite model and wife of William MorrisSt Helen's Passage19 October 2007Violet Butler1884–1982Social reformer, social work trainer14 Norham Gardens29 October 2021Nirad Chaudhuri1897–1999Writer20 Lathbury Road4 October 2008Noel Chavasse1884–1917VC and BarMagdalen College School30 September 2005Chiang Yee1903–1977Artist and writer28 Southmoor Road29 June 2019Civil War1646Surrender of Oxford in 1646Cromwell House, 17 Mill Lane, Old Marston16 June 2013St Barnabas Church25 February 2007Sarah Cooper1848–1932Marmalade maker83 High Street10 October 2001The Cutteslowe Walls1934–1959Site of the former wall34 Aldrich Road9 March 2006Sir Richard Doll1912–2005Epidemiologist12 Rawlinson Road7 June 2015George Claridge Druce1850–1932Botanist, pharmacist, Mayor of Oxford83 High Street28 April 201861 Park Town8 June 2024Sir Anthony Epstein1921–2024Virologist19 West Street, Osney Island2 November 2024Designers and builders of many Oxford buildings34 St Giles'19 October 2004Baroness Lucy Faithfull1910–1996Social worker, champion of children’s rights303 Woodstock Road9 May 2026Mabel Purefoy FitzGerald1872–1973Physiologist12 Crick Road14 October 2022Philippa Foot1920–2010Moral philosopher15 Walton Street26 May 2023Maureen Gardner1928–1974Olympic hurdles silver medallist 194817 Maidcroft Road, Cowley7 July 2012Olive Gibbs1918–1995Local politician and campaignerChrist Church Old Buildings, Osney Lane11 April 2015Gathorne Robert Girdlestone1881–1950Pioneering orthopaedic surgeonNuffield Orthopaedic Centre Staff Accommodation, 72–74 Old Road, Headington, site of the Red House9 May 2006Sir Ludwig Guttmann1899–1980Neurosurgeon63 Lonsdale Road, Summertown29 April 2023John Scott Haldane1860–1936Physiologist11 Crick Road2 May 2009Norman Heatley1911–2004Biochemist12 Oxford Road, Old Marston17 July 2010Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin1910–1994Crystallographer, Nobel Laureate94 Woodstock Road5 May 2016Iffley Road Track1954The first sub-four-minute mile by Roger Bannister at Oxford University Sports Ground on 6 May 1954Iffley Road12 May 2004Cecil Jackson-Cole1901–1979Entrepreneur, philanthropist and founding member of the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (Oxfam)17 Broad Street14 November 2002William Kimber1872–1961Headington Quarry morris dancer and musician42 St Anne's Road, Headington30 May 2011Thomas Henry Kingerlee 1843–1928Major Oxford builderThe River Hotel, 17 Botley Road9 June 2021Sir Leslie Kirkley1911–1989Humanitarian, Director of Oxfam25 Capel Close, Summertown16 June 2023Sir Hans Krebs 1900–1981Biochemist27 Abberbury Road, Iffley7 June 2008Edmund Arnold Greening Lamborn1877–1950Headmaster, local historian, "man of letters", benefactor34 Oxford Road, Littlemore18 September 2010James Legge1815–1897Sinologist and missionary3 Keble Road16 May 2018C.S. Lewis1898–1963Academic and authorThe Kilns, Lewis Close, Headington Quarry26 July 2008Dr Isabelle Little1889–1969Pioneering GP2 Holywell Street6 July 2024Mary McMaster1914–2004Physiotherapist, founder of St Luke's Hospital and McMaster HouseMcMaster House, Latimer Road, Headington27 July 2022Salvador de Madariaga1886–1978Statesman, scholar and writerBoxtrees, 3 St Andrew's Road, Headington15 October 2011Magnetic resonance imaging scanner1980Manufacture of the first commercial MRI whole-body scannerThe King's Centre, Osney Mead14 May 2007Percy Manning1870–1917Antiquary and folklorist300 Banbury Road, Summertown8 April 2017Mary Sophia Merivale1853–1928First woman councillor in Oxford7 Park Town31 July 2026Chassar Moir1900–1977Gynaecologist, pioneering researcher, and surgeon11 Chadlington Road6 July 2019William Morfill1834–1909Linguist42 Park Town1 November 2009William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield1877–1963Car maker and philanthropist16 James Street25 April 2004Sir James Murray1837–1915Lexicographer78 Banbury Road21 October 2002Dame Iris Murdoch1919–1999Novelist, moral philosopher30 Charlbury Road26 May 2023Joan Murray née Clarke1917–1996Cryptanalyst and numismatist7 Larkfields, Headington Quarry27 July 2019Paul Nash1889–1946Artist106 Banbury Road14 July 2007Oxford Park & Ride1973First enduring Park & Ride bus scheme in the UKRedbridge Park & Ride, Abingdon Road1 November 2019Oxford Playhouse1923–1938Original auditorium and former Big Game Museum12 Woodstock Road14 October 2010Oxford United Football Club1893Foundation here as Headington F.C.The Britannia, London Road, Headington27 October 20192 Bradmore Road3 July 2004Penicillin1938–1941Development at Sir William Dunn School of PathologySir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road29 May 2018Penicillin1941First treatment in 1941 at the former Radcliffe Infirmary Outpatients Building (now the University of Oxford Radcliffe Primary Care Health Sciences Building)Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road29 May 2018Dame Margery Perham1895–1982Historian, key writer and adviser on African affairs5 Rawlinson Road1 June 2019Alec Peterson1908–1988Pioneer of international education33 St Andrew's Road, Headington26 September 2026Wykeham House, 56 Banbury Road11 June 201614 Stanley Road16 September 2016Annie Rogers1856–1937Classicist, campaigner for women's full membership of Oxford University35 St Giles'23 September 2020St Ignatius' Chapel1793First Roman Catholic church at Oxford after the ReformationAngel Court, 81 St Clement's Street31 July 2018Sir Charles Sherrington1857–1952Neurophysiologist9 Chadlington Road28 April 2022Sir Francis Simon1893–1956Physicist and philanthropist10 Belbroughton Road6 December 2003Felicia Skene1821–1899Prison reformer34 St Michael's Street2 July 2002Revd W. A. Spooner1844–1930Warden of New College, Oxford and eponymous word transposer11 Keble Road19 October 2024Rev. Canon John Stansfeld1854–1939Priest and social reformerFormer St Ebbe's Rectory, Paradise Square26 June 2009Star Inn1794Formation of the Oxfordshire Yeomanry (later the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars)34 Cornmarket, now the Clarendon Centre8 November 2003Henry Taunt1842–1922Photographer393 Cowley Road10 January 2008Nikolaas Tinbergen1907–1988Pioneering ethologist, Nobel Laureate88 Lonsdale Road, Summertown8 June 2022J.R.R. Tolkien1892–1973Author and scholar20 Northmoor Road3 December 2002Willam Turner of Oxford1789–1862Artist16 St John Street29 October 2002Alan Villiers1903–1982Master of square-rigged ships, author, photographer1A Lucerne Road, Summertown6 May 2017Mary Augusta Ward (Mrs Humphry Ward)1851–1920Social reformer and novelist17 Bradmore Road28 April 2012William Wilkinson1819–1901Architect5 Beaumont Street19 October 2016Ivy Williams1877–1966Lawyer and university teacher, first woman to be called to the Bar of England and Wales12 King Edward Street21 September 2020Anthony Wood1632–1695AntiquarianPostmasters' Hall, Merton Street28 April 2008
Blue plaques elsewhere in Oxfordshire