[2] 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.
[3] In 1928, 4 Garford Road was leased to Sir Carleton Allen (1887–1966), Civil Law Fellow at University College, Oxford and later Warden of Rhodes House.
[1] The Galbraith family lived at 1 Garford Road from its initial lease in 1928.
Vivian Galbraith was made a Fellow of Balliol College in 1928 and became Regius Professor of History at Oxford University in 1948.
[5][6] In 1959, 1A Garford Road was leased to the physicist Prof. Brebis Bleaney CBE FRS (1915–2006), based at the Clarendon Laboratory of Oxford University.