# Crick Road > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Crick_Road > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Crick_Road.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crick_Road > Source revision: 1173856640 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Road in North Oxford, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}} {{Use British English|date=March 2018}} {{Infobox street | name = Crick Road | native_name = | marker_image = | image = Crick Road, Oxford.JPG | caption = View east along Crick Road from the junction with [Bradmore Road](/source/Bradmore_Road) | other_name = | former_names = | postal_code = OX2 6QJ | addresses = | length_m = 200 | length_ft = | length_mi = | length_km = | length_ref = | width = | location = | client = | maint = | coordinates = {{coord|51.76475|-1.25705|region:GB_type:landmark|display=title,inline}} | direction_a = west | terminus_a = [Bradmore Road](/source/Bradmore_Road) | direction_b = east | terminus_b = [Fyfield Road](/source/Fyfield_Road) | junction = | commissioning_date = | construction_start_date = | completion_date = 1876 | inauguration_date = | demolition_date = | north = | south = | east = | west = }} [[File:Haldane blue plaque, Oxford.JPG|thumb|upright|The [blue plaque](/source/blue_plaque) for the physiologist [J. S. Haldane](/source/J._S._Haldane), who lived at 11 Crick Road during 1891–9.]] [[File:J. B. S. Haldane.jpg|thumb|upright|The geneticist [J. B. S. Haldane](/source/J._B._S._Haldane) [FRS](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society), the son of J. S. Haldane, who lived at 11 Crick Road.]] '''Crick Road''' is a road in [North Oxford](/source/North_Oxford), [England](/source/England), an area characterised by large [Victorian Gothic](/source/Victorian_Gothic) villas.{{cite book | title=North Oxford | last=Hinchcliffe | first=Tanis |year=1992 | publisher=[Yale University Press](/source/Yale_University_Press) | location=New Haven & London|pages=55, 85, 109, 223 | isbn=0-14-071045-0}} ==Location== At the western end is the [Bradmore Road](/source/Bradmore_Road) and at the eastern end is [Fyfield Road](/source/Fyfield_Road). To the north is [Norham Road](/source/Norham_Road) and to the south are [Norham Gardens](/source/Norham_Gardens) and the [University Parks](/source/University_Parks). ==History and residents== Houses in the road were first leased between 1876 and 1880. Architects include [Willson Beasley](/source/Willson_Beasley), [Frederick Codd](/source/Frederick_Codd), [Galpin](/source/John_Galpin_(architect)) & [Shirley](/source/George_Shirley_(architect)), and [Frederick R. Pike](/source/Frederick_R._Pike). The houses are mostly in pairs, with [Jacobean](/source/Jacobean_architecture) as well as more traditional North Oxford [Gothic](/source/Gothic_Revival_architecture) detailing.{{cite book | title=The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire |last1=Sherwood |first1=Jennifer |last2=Pevsner |first2=Nikolaus |authorlink2=Nikolaus Pevsner |year=1974 | publisher=[Penguin Books](/source/Penguin_Books) | page=318 | isbn=0-14-071045-0}} In 1879, the school that was to become known as the [Dragon School](/source/Dragon_School) (previous known as the [Oxford Preparatory School](/source/Oxford_Preparatory_School)) moved from rooms at Balliol Hall in [St Giles'](/source/St_Giles'%2C_Oxford) to 17 Crick Road, which became known as "School House".{{cite book | title=A Dragon Century: 1877–1977 | publisher=Blackwell's | year=1977 | last=Jaques | first=C. H. | pages=1–7 | chapter=I: Beginnings}} The headmaster was initially A. E. Clarke and from 1886 Charles Cotterill Lynam (known as the "Skipper").{{cite book | title=A Dragon Century: 1877–1977 | publisher=Blackwell's | year=1977 | last=Jaques | first=C. H. | pages=7–21 | chapter=II: The Crick Road Era}} The school expanded and moved in 1895 to its current location at [Bardwell Road](/source/Bardwell_Road), further north in [North Oxford](/source/North_Oxford). In 1879, the [historian](/source/historian) and later [Master](/source/Master_(college)) of [Balliol College, Oxford](/source/Balliol_College%2C_Oxford), [Arthur Lionel Smith](/source/Arthur_Lionel_Smith) married Mary Smith.{{cite book | title=The Changing Faces of North Oxford: Book One|publisher=Robert Boyd Publications | last=Symonds | first=Ann Spokes | chapter=Families: The A.L. Smiths |date=4 September 1997 | pages=117–118 | isbn=1-899536-25-6}} They first lived at 7 Crick Road until 1893. They had had nine children together, six of whom were born at the house in Crick Road. In the 20th century 7 Crick Road was the home of the Principal of St. Edmund Hall, [John Kelly](/source/John_Norman_Davidson_Kelly), who let part of the building to undergraduates, and then bequeathed it to St. Edmund Hall in 1997. The Haldane family{{cite book | title=The Changing Faces of North Oxford: Book One |publisher=Robert Boyd Publications | last=Symonds | first=Ann Spokes | chapter= Families: The Haldanes |date=4 September 1997 | pages=99–101 | isbn=1-899536-25-6}} lived at 11 Crick Road and the house is marked with a [blue plaque](/source/blue_plaque).{{cite web | url=http://oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/haldane.html | title=J. S. Haldane (1860–1936) | publisher=[Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme](/source/Oxfordshire_Blue_Plaques_Scheme), UK | date=14 March 2011 | accessdate=6 May 2011 | df=dmy-all }}{{cite book| first=Elizabeth Jean | last=Warr | title=The Oxford Plaque Guide | website=www.thehistorypress.co.uk | publisher=The History Press | location=Stroud, Gloucestershire | year=2011| isbn=978-0-7524-5687-4 | pages=54–56 }} The family included the [physiologist](/source/physiologist) and father [John Scott Haldane](/source/John_Scott_Haldane) (1860–1936) and his wife Louisa,{{cite book | title=Images of Victorian Oxford | publisher=[Alan Sutton Publishing](/source/Alan_Sutton_Publishing) | last=Graham | first=Malcolm | chapter=North Oxford | pages=87–90 | year=1992 | isbn=0-86299-967-7 }} together with their children, the [geneticist](/source/geneticist) and [evolutionary biologist](/source/evolutionary_biologist) [J. B. S. Haldane](/source/J._B._S._Haldane) ([Fellow](/source/Fellow_(college)) of [New College, Oxford](/source/New_College%2C_Oxford)), and the novelist [Naomi Mitchison](/source/Naomi_Mitchison). The family later moved to 'Cherwell' at the end of [Linton Road](/source/Linton_Road) to the north, now the location of [Wolfson College](/source/Wolfson_College%2C_Oxford) on the banks of the [River Cherwell](/source/River_Cherwell). The [botanist](/source/botanist) and Mayor of [Oxford](/source/Oxford), [George Claridge Druce](/source/George_Claridge_Druce) (1850–1932), moved to 9 Crick Road in 1909.{{cite web | last=Jenkins | first=Stephanie | url=http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/mayors/1836_1962/druce_george_1900.html | title=George Claridge Druce: Mayor of Oxford 1900/1 | website=www.headington.org.uk | publisher=Headington, Oxford | location=UK | date=6 March 2011 | accessdate=6 May 2011 | url-status=live | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130923150852/http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/mayors/1836_1962/druce_george_1900.html | archivedate=23 September 2013 | df=dmy-all }} He named the house "Yardley Lodge", after the village of [Yardley Gobion](/source/Yardley_Gobion) where he lived in his youth. He died at his home and was buried in [Holywell Cemetery](/source/Holywell_Cemetery), Oxford. ==References== {{Reflist}} Category:Streets in Oxford Category:Dragon School --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Crick Road](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crick_Road) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crick_Road?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.