Garford Road is a residential road in

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, England. The road is a

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and leads east off Charlbury Road. To the south is

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and

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, which has residences on the road. 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. One of the houses is known as Garford House.

Residents

In 1928, 4 Garford Road was leased to Sir

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(1887–1966), Civil Law

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and later

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. The Galbraith family lived at 1 Garford Road from its initial lease in 1928. Prof.

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(1889–1976) and his wife Ena Galbraith were both mediaevalists. Vivian Galbraith was made a Fellow of

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in 1928 and became

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in 1948. They had three children, Jane, Jim, and Mary. Mary Galbraith, diplomat and writer, married the diplomat

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and became the

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, from 1980 to 1990. In 1959, 1A Garford Road was leased to the physicist Prof.

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CBE FRS (1915–2006), based at the

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of Oxford University. Later he lived at Garford House.

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