Garford Road is a residential road in
North Oxford, England.
The road is a
cul-de-sac
A dead end, also known as a cul-de-sac (, from French for 'bag-bottom'), no through road or no exit road, is a street with only one inlet or outlet.
The term "dead end" is understood in all varieties of English, but the official terminology ...
and leads east off
Charlbury Road
Charlbury Road is a road in North Oxford, England, running to the east of and parallel with the Banbury Road.
At the southern end of the road there is a junction with Bardwell Road, close to the Dragon School. 1, 3, 5 and 7 Charlbury Road is ...
. To the south is
Linton Road and
Wolfson College, Oxford, which has residences in the road. The houses on the road were mostly leased from
St John's College in 1928–30, largely designed by
Christopher Wright, who also designed houses in
Belbroughton Road
Belbroughton Road is a residential road in the suburb of North Oxford, England. The road runs east from Banbury Road. At the other end is Oxford High School, a girls' school. South from the road about halfway along is Northmoor Road, where J. ...
to the north.
One of the houses is known as Garford House.
Residents
In 1928, 4 Garford Road was leased to Sir
Carleton Allen
Sir Carleton Kemp Allen (7 September 1887 – 11 December 1966) was an Australian-born professor and Warden of Rhodes House, University of Oxford. Entry by his successor as Warden of Rhodes House, E.T. Williams, in ''Oxford Dictionary of Nat ...
(1887–1966), Civil Law
Fellow at
University College, Oxford and later
Warden
A warden is a custodian, defender, or guardian. Warden is often used in the sense of a watchman or guardian, as in a prison warden. It can also refer to a chief or head official, as in the Warden of the Mint.
''Warden'' is etymologically identic ...
of
Rhodes House.
The Galbraith family lived at 1 Garford Road from its initial lease in 1928.
Prof.
Vivian Hunter Galbraith (1889–1976) and his wife
Ena Galbraith were both
mediaevalists. Vivian Galbraith was made a Fellow of
Balliol College in 1928 and became
Regius Professor
A Regius Professor
is a university Professor (highest academic rank), professor who has, or originally had, Monarchy of the United Kingdom, royal patronage or appointment. They are a unique feature of academia in the United Kingdom and Republic ...
of
History at
Oxford University in 1948. They had three children, Jane, Jim, and Mary.
Mary Galbraith, diplomat and writer, married the diplomat
A. R. Moore and became the
principal of
St Hilda's College, Oxford
St Hilda's College is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college is named after the Anglo-Saxon Saint, Hilda of Whitby and was founded in 1893 as a hall for women; it ...
, from 1980 to 1990.
In 1959, 1A Garford Road was leased to the physicist Prof.
Brebis Bleaney
Brebis Bleaney (6 June 1915 – 4 November 2006) was a British physicist. His main area of research was the use of microwave techniques to study the magnetic properties of solids. He was head of the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Ox ...
CBE
FRS (1915–2006), based at the
Clarendon Laboratory of Oxford University. Later he lived at Garford House.
See also
*
Garford
Garford is a village and civil parish about west of Abingdon. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The parish is bounded by the River Ock to the north, by two tributaries of the Ock to the ...
, a village south of
Oxford and west of
Abingdon
References
Streets in Oxford
Wolfson College, Oxford
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