Lonsdale Road is a residential road in Summertown, north Oxford, England.
The road runs between Banbury Road to the west and the River Cherwell to the east.
Lonsdale Road is named after the Earl of Lonsdale.[Kinchin (2006), page 222.]
Notable residents
There have been a number of notable residents of Lonsdale Road, especially scientists, including two
Nobel Prize winners.
[Kinchin (2006), page 84.] The following have been residents in the road:
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Sir Ludwig Guttmann (1899–1980), neurologist.
[Kinchin (2006), pages 80–81.]
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John Herivel (1918–2011), mathematician, World War II codebreaker at Bletchley Park and historian of science.
[Kinchin (2006), pages 82–83, 148, 216–217.]
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Sir Peter Hirsch (born 1925), metallurgist.
[Kinchin (2006), page 85.]
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Tony Honoré (1921–2019), lawyer and jurist.
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Dame Louise Johnson (1940–2012), biochemist and protein crystallographer.
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Bertram Mandelbrote (1923–2010), psychiatrist and pioneer of mental healthcare.
[Kinchin (2006), pages 87–88.]
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Jean Robinson, healthcare campaigner.
[Kinchin (2006), pages 88–90.]
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Abdus Salam (1926–1996), physicist, Nobel Laureate in Physics (1979).
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Paul Thompson (born 1935), sociologist and pioneer of oral history.
[Kinchin (2006), page 91.]
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Niko Tinbergen (1907–1988), biologist and ornithologist, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
[Kinchin (2006), pages 84–85.]
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Sir Douglas Veale (1891–1973) University Registrar
Three of the houses in the road bear blue plaques. The Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board erected the plaques to Nikolaas Tinbergen
