Oxford Inscriptions: William Morris, Lord Nuffield
WILLIAM
MORRIS
VISCOUNT
NUFFIELD
1877 • 1963
MOTOR
MANUFACTURER
AND GENEROUS
BENEFACTOR
This plaque showing William Morris, Viscount Nuffield is by Martin Jennings and was unveiled in 1999. It is on the Oxford Crown Court new buildings in St Aldate’s, to the south of the main Crown Court.
These buildings, which were opened by the Lord Chancellor Lord Hailsham on 4 October 1985 and contain five courts, retain much of the façade of the old Morris Motors showrooms built in 1932:
Photograph of of the old showrooms in 1975
Viscount Nuffield has a blue plaque on his home in James Street
An engraving in the glass of the door of the shop at 48 High Street, Oxford reads as follows:
WILLIAM RICHARD MORRIS
later
LORD NUFFIELD
1877–1963
first used this shop in his business
as a cycle maker and repairer from which
developed the motor car enterprise which
was to benefit millions by the philanthropic
benevolence of its founder.
Wikipedia:
William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield