Garford Road

{{Short description|Road in North Oxford, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}} {{Use British English|date=April 2017}} '''Garford Road''' is a residential road in North Oxford, England.<ref name="hinchcliffe">{{cite book | title=North Oxford | last=Hinchcliffe | first=Tanis | year=1992 | publisher=Yale University Press | location=New Haven & London | pages=132, 187, 225 | isbn=0-14-071045-0}}</ref>

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 on the road.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://wikimapia.org/5013181/Garford-Road-residences | title=Garford Road residences (Oxford) | work=Wikimapia | accessdate=6 September 2012 }}</ref> 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 to the north.<ref name="hinchcliffe" /> One of the houses is known as '''Garford House'''.<ref name="kelly">{{cite book| title=Kelly's Directory of Oxford | chapter=Garford Road | publisher=Kelly's Directories | page=339 | year=1976}}</ref>

==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.<ref name="hinchcliffe" />

The Galbraith family lived at 1 Garford Road from its initial lease in 1928.<ref name="symonds">{{cite book | title=The Changing Faces of North Oxford | volume=Book One | publisher=Robert Boyd Publications | last=Symonds | first=Ann Spokes | chapter=The Galbraiths| pages=93–94 | year=1997 | isbn=1-899536-25-6}}</ref> 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 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, from 1980 to 1990.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1378049/A-R-Moore.html | title=A R Moore (obituary) | newspaper=The Daily Telegraph | date=13 December 2000 | accessdate=10 September 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.lmh.ox.ac.uk/Tutors/Lecturers-(1)/Profiles/Mrs-Mary-Moore.aspx | title=Profile: Mrs Mary Moore | publisher=Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford | accessdate=10 September 2012 }}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ppsbdk-TvN8C&pg=PT74 | chapter=Bleaney, Brebis (Physicist) | title=The Celebrity Black Book 2008: Over 55,000 Accurate Celebrity Addresses Celebrity Black Book | first=Jordan | last=McAuley | edition=18th | publisher=Mega Niche Media | year=2007 | isbn=978-1604870022 }}</ref>

==See also== * Garford, a village south of Oxford and west of Abingdon

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