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12 Norham Road

Home given by Dr Kirstie Morrison to MRA

12 Norham Road is a large house in North Oxford which was the home from 1936 of Oxford academic Dr Kirstie Morrison. When she died in 1998, she left the house in her will to The Oxford Group (the charitable body of what is now Initiatives of Change UK).

Below is a brief timeline of the house.

31 April 1936

Christine (Kirstie) Morrison (aged 33) rents 12 Norham Rd (upper flat) from Myrtle Strode-Jackson.  

 

1965

Mary Souter moves into downstairs flat. 

 

21 Oct 1968

Myrtle dies.   

 

1968

Kirstie buys 69 Chalfont Rd for £4,650, but remains living at 12A Norham Rd.  

 

1970 

Kirstie’s rent for 12 Norham Rd is £50 a quarter, due ‘Midsummer Quarter Day’.

 

August 1970

Kirstie sells 69 Chalfont Rd for £5,850 to Rachel Trickett, a fellow English don, who became Principal of St Hugh’s in 1973.   

 

August 1970

Kirstie buys the leasehold of 12 Norham Rd for £850 and buys the freehold from St John’s for £6,000.  

 

1975 

Kirstie invites Charis Waddy to live with her.  

 

1975-1980

In 1975 Kirstie proposes to Mary Souter that they swap flats, because Kirstie would prefer to be downstairs in her old age (72 in 1975). Mary S refuses to move, but finally does so, after legal proceedings threatened, in 1980. 

 

1993

Kirstie (now aged 90) arranges to lease the upstairs flat to the Oxford Group. Mary Souter agrees to move out and Peter, Su and Gracie Riddell move in. 

 

1998 Kirstie dies. Leaves whole building to Oxford Group.
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