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| | History of Headington, Oxford |
 | | Gathorne Robert Girdlestone (1881–1950) was born at Christ Church, Oxford, on 8 October 1881. |
 | | He retired from the chair in 1939 and moved to Frilford Heath in 1948, but continued to be interested in the hospital, helping to launch the scheme for the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in 1949. |
 | | When GRG moved out of the Red House in 1948, it was bought by the hospital and, together with a newer building next door, it eventually became the Ruth Jolliffe School of Nursing and Nurses' Home, named after the matron of the Wingfield-Morris Hospital from 1930 to 1952. |
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