Garford Road

Garford Road is a residential road in North Oxford, England.^[1]

The road is a cul-de-sac and leads east off Charlbury Road. To the south is Linton Road and Wolfson College, Oxford, which has residences in the road.^[2] The houses on the road were mostly leased from St John's College in 1928–30, largely designed by , who also designed houses in Belbroughton Road to the north.^[1] One of the houses is known as Garford House.^[3]

Residents[]

In 1928, 4 Garford Road was leased to Sir Carleton Allen (1887–1966), Civil Law Fellow at University College, Oxford and later Warden of Rhodes House.^[1]

The Galbraith family lived at 1 Garford Road from its initial lease in 1928.^[4] Prof. Vivian Hunter Galbraith (1889–1976) and his wife were both mediaevalists. Vivian Galbraith was made a Fellow of Balliol College in 1928 and became Regius Professor of History at Oxford University in 1948. They had three children, Jane, Jim, and Mary. , diplomat and writer, married the diplomat and became the Principal of St Hilda's College, Oxford from 1980 to 1990.^[5]^[6]

In 1959, 1A Garford Road was leased to the physicist Prof. Brebis Bleaney CBE FRS (1915–2006), based at the Clarendon Laboratory of Oxford University. Later he lived at Garford House.^[7]

References[]

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