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Professor Gathorne Robert Girdlestone "GRG" 1881-1950 Pioneering surgeon and founder of the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre lived in the Red House on this site 1919-1948
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board
Location
The Nuffield Staff Accommodation, 72-74 Old Road, Headington, Oxford

This plaque commemorates where Gathorne Robert Girdlestone lived for almost thirty years.