Mary Arnold Ward (Mrs Humphry Ward) in Oxford (UK)

'MARY ARNOLD

WARD

(MRS HUMPHRY WARD)

1851 – 1920

Social Reformer

Novelist

lived here

1872 – 1881'

17 Bradmore Road.

Walter Pater and Clara Pater in Oxford (UK)

'WALTER PATER

1839 –1894

Author and Scholar

CLARA PATER

1841 – 1910

Pioneer of Women's Education

Lived here

1869 – 1885'

2 Bradmore Road.

Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford #6 Louise Imogen Guiney

Finally in Wolvercote Cemetery, the most difficult grave to find (at least for us.) Difficult not because of the relatively distinctive grave itself, but due to the erosion of the inscription. As far as I know this is the only photo of the grave of Louise Imogen Guiney (1861–1920) that is on the internet, which is perhaps hardly surprising because I couldn't make out a single word at the base of the grave, so my thanks to Dr Rowena Edlin-White for taking a rubbing and discovering this inscription:

'ANNO MCMII
DECEMBRIS XXVIII
IN CORDE JESU
ELIZABETH DOYLE
DELASSATA                  (this is her aunt who lived with her)

LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY
JAN VII MDCCCLXI
NOVII MCMXX

DILIGENSE ET FIDELIS'

Apparently Guiney and her friend Alice Brown did a walking tour of England, which was detailed in Brown's By Oak and Thorn (1896), and Guiney eventually returned to England. She also found and had restored the grave of Henry Vaughan in St Bride's churchyard, Llansantiffraed, Powys.

A former home of Guiney's in Beacon Hill, Boston, MA.

Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford #5: Albert Habib Hourani

'ALBERT

HABIB

HOURANI

1915 – 1993

Scholar and Historian

Of the Middle East

Teacher at the

University of Oxford

Much loved

And greatly missed

By all who knew him'

Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford #4: James Legge

'HERE REST IN GOD

JAMES LEGGE,

MISSIONARY TO CHINA,

AND

FIRST PROFESSOR OF CHINESE

IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

BORN 20 ^TH DEC. 1815, DIED 19 ^TH NOVEMBER 1897.'

Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford #3: James Murray

'SIR JAMES A. H. MURRAY, L. L. D.

EDITOR OF

THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY.

1878 – 1915

BORN 7. FEBRUARY 1837,

DIED 26. JULY 1915.'

78 Banbury Road, Oxford, where James Murray lived from 1885 to 1915.

Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford #1: J. R. R. Tolkien

'EDITH MARY TOLKIEN

LUTHIEN

1889 – 1971

JOHN RONALD

REUEL TOLKIEN

BEREN

1882 – 1973'

Obviously no introduction needed here, and of course Tolkien's grave is the most searched for one in the cemetery, several signs pointing the way to it. Tolkien's book Beren and Lúthien is to be published by their son Christopher in 2017.

The plaque on Tolkien's former home at 20 Northmoor Road, north Oxford, states that he lived here from 1930 to 1947.