Dr Tony Shaw

'NEAR TO THIS PLACE LIE THE MORTAL REMAINS OF GEORGE ORWELL . WRITER . ERIC ARTHUR BLAIR . 25 JUNE 1903 . 21 JANUARY 1950...

'MARY ARNOLD WARD (MRS HUMPHRY WARD) 1851 – 1920 Social Reformer Novelist lived here 1872 – 1881' 17 Bradmo...

'WALTER PATER 1839  –1894 Author and Scholar CLARA PATER 1841  – 1910 Pioneer of Women's Education Lived here...

Finally in Wolvercote Cemetery, the most difficult grave to find (at least for us.) Difficult not because of the relatively distinctive g...

'ALBERT HABIB HOURANI 1915 – 1993 Scholar and Historian Of the Middle East Teacher at the University of Oxford Much ...

'HERE REST IN GOD JAMES LEGGE, MISSIONARY TO CHINA, AND FIRST PROFESSOR OF CHINESE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. BORN...

'SIR JAMES A. H. MURRAY, L. L. D. EDITOR OF THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY. 1878 – 1915 BORN 7. FEBRUARY 1837, DIED 26. ...

'EDITH MARY TOLKIEN LUTHIEN 1889 – 1971 JOHN RONALD REUEL TOLKIEN BEREN 1882 – 1973' Obviously no introductio...

Pope's Tower is where Alexander Pope, who was a friend of Simon Harcourt, finished his translation of Homer's Iliad  in 1718. ...

The graves of three Mitford sisters in a row in Swinbrook, Oxfordshire, which was their family home.   'NANCY MITFORD Auth...

The Times Literary Supplement 's 26 April 2013 issue contains a fascinating article by Martin Murphy titled 'Pub Poets: The Exiles ...

St George's Church, Kelmscott.   Buried in the graveyard are William Morris (1834–1896) and his wife Jane Morris (1839–1914). ...

Barn Cottage, Finstock, Oxfordshire.   'BARBARA PYM 1913–1980   Writer   lived here 1972–1980'   Following ...

'FARINGDON FOLLY 'THIS 100FT HIGH TOWER WAS BUILT IN 1935 BY THE 14TH LORD BERNERS. IT IS THE LAST MAJOR FOLLY TOWER TO HA...

The pub The Blowing Stone, with its inn sign of a stone with several holes set against a background of the famous white horse, obviously hid...