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Famous people of Headington


The earliest named Headington people are probably the potter Thamesubugus who signed his name on a piece of pottery made at the Roman kiln on the site of the Churchill Hospital, and Hedena (or Headan), after whose tun Headington was named.

Those shown in red have a full entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Those marked with an asterisk have a road in Headington named after them.
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The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography contains numerous other people who were associated with Headington, including the following:

  • Evelyn Abbott, Classical Scholar
    Lived at Pullens Cottage in Pullens Lane from 1890 to 1901
  • J.L.N. Baker (1893–1971), Geographer
    Lived at Stone Rise, 11/13 New High Street, from 1928
  • Henry Balfour (1863–1939), Museum curator
    Lived at Langley Lodge in Pullens Lane from 1909 to 1939
  • John Hugh Marshall Beattie (1915–1990), Social anthropologist
    Lived at The Cottage at the top of Headington Hill from 1956)
  • Stuart Highworth Blanch (1918–1994), Archbishop of York
    Curate of All Saints Church, Lime Walk 1949–1952
  • James Leslie Brierly (1881–1955), International lawyer
    Lived at 6 Brookside until 1955
  • Rhoda Broughton (1840–1920), Novelist
    Lived at River View, Headington Hill from 1900 to 1920
  • Alice Bruce (1867–1951), educationist
    Lived at White Gables at the top of Headington Hill to 1951
  • George Albert Cooke (1865–1939), Biblical scholar
    Curate of St Andrew’s Church, Headington from 1889
  • Richard Lynch Cotton (1794–1880), Provost of Worcester
    Instrumental in the building of Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry
  • William Harbutt Dawson (1860–1948), Journalist
    Lived at 23 Latimer Road in the 1930s
  • Vigo Auguste Demant (1893–1983), Theologian and social commentator
    Lived at 31 St Andrew’s Road from 1971
  • Sir Henry Harness (1804–1883), Army officer
    Lived at Barton End in the 1880s
  • Francis John Haverfield (1860–1919), Historian and archaeologist
    Built Winshields in Pullens Lane and lived there until 1919
  • Charles Herford (1853–1931), Literary scholar
    Lived at 80 Old Road (then numbered 24) until 1931
  • Rosamund Davenport-Hill (1825–1902), Social reformer
    Lived at Hillstow (now renamed Dorset House) on the London Road
  • Thomas Lionel Hodgkin (1910–1982), Historian
    Born in 1910 at Mendip House, Pullens Lane
  • Sir William Markby (1829–1914), Judge and legal writer
    Lived at The Pullens from 1880 to 1914
  • John Massie (1842–1925), Biblical scholar and politician
    Lived in the Rookery (now Ruskin Hall) from 1910 to 1925
  • Hope Mirrlees (1887–1978), Writer and poet
    Lived in The Firs at the top of Headington Hill from 1963
  • Henry Whitehead Moss (1841–1917), Headmaster of Shrewsbury School
    Lived at Highfield Park (now the Park Hospital) from 1909
  • Joan Murray (1917–1996), Cryptanalyst and numismatist
    Lived at 7 Larkfields in Quarry until 1996
  • Gabriel Turville-Petre (1908–1978), Icelandic scholar
    Lived at the Court in the Croft until 1978
  • Sir Alan Pim (1871–1958), Administrator in India and colonial adviser
    Lived at 3 Harberton Mead until 1958
  • Henry Habberley Price (1899–1984), Philosopher
    Lived at 69 Jack Straw’s Lane until 1984
  • Ian Ramsey (1917–1972), Bishop of Durham
    Curate of Headington Quarry in the 1940s
  • James Edwin Thorold Rogers (1823–1890), Political economist and politician
    Acted voluntarily as assistant curate at Headington from 1854 to 1858
  • William Hume-Rothery (1899–1968), Chemist and metallurgist
    Lived at 54 Sandfield Road in the 1930s
  • (William) Ritchie Russell (1903–1980), Neurologist
    Worked at Headington Hill Hall rehabilitation centre and studied brain wounds sustained in World War II
  • Sir Michael Ernest Sadler (1861–1943), Educationist, his wife Eva Margaret Gilpin (1868–1940), Headmistress and educationist, and their son Michael Thomas Harvey Sadleir [sic] (1888–1957), Bibliographer and novelist
    Lived at The Rookery (now Ruskin Hall) from 1934 to 1943
  • Percy Simpson (1865–1962), Literary scholar
    Lived at 61A Old Road
  • Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith (1909–1996), Book collector
    Lived at 7 Beaumont Road, Headington Quarry from 1965
  • Sydney Vines (1849–1934), Botanist
    Built the Vineyard, later named Pollock House, in Pullens Lane in 1885

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Last updated: 17 April, 2008