[3] St John's College closely controlled the scale and distribution of the houses on the road, with the subsequent designs ensuring provision of adequate rear gardens and front walls and railings.
Sir Edward Henry Pelham (1876–1949), the son of Henry Francis Pelham (President of Trinity College, Oxford) and Laura Priscilla Buxton, later Permanent Secretary of the Board of Education between 1931 and 1937,[6] was born in 20 Bradmore Road on 20 December 1876.
[7] In 1874, 13 Bradfield Road was leased to William Esson (1838–1916),[2] a mathematician and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.
Nos 9 and 10 were for a time a Radcliffe Infirmary nurses' home and later an annexe of Green College.
Her husband Thomas Humphry Ward (1845–1926), author and Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, leased the house in 1872.