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Who was Lord Nuffield? Motor Car Manufacturer and Scientific Philanthropist. Date and Place of Birth: 10th October 1877, Worcester. Christened William Richard Morris. Family Background: Son of Frederick Morris who became a clerk in Oxford after several speculative journeys to the wild west of the United States of America in attempts to make his fortune and Emily Ann Petter, a farmer's daughter. Nuffield was the eldest of seven children. Education: Church School, Cowley, Oxfordshire which he left at the age of fourteen. Chronology: 1880: Family moved to Oxford. 1892: Left School 1893: Worked at 16 James Street, Oxford as a repairer of bicycles in the shed at the bottom of his father's garden with the starting capital of £4. 1912: Designed his first car, the bull nosed Morris, at his car repair garage at Longwall Street, Oxford. Large scale production of this car moved to a disused military training college in Hollow Way, Cowley, Oxfordshire. 1913: Introduction of the first Morris Oxford car. He became known as "The English Henry Ford". 1914: The Cowley factory was turned over to the making of munitions for the war effort during the First World War. 1925: The annual output of motor cars from Cowley was now 56,000. 1926: Bought Huntercombe Golf Course to indulge his favourite sport. 1928: Had a bad reaction to anaesthetics when he had an operation to remove his appendix and always stored the appendix in a jar in a cupboard on the first floor of his house. 1933: Bought the house Nuffield Place, near Wallingford, as it was near the golf course. 1934: Made a Baron. 1937: Endowed Nuffield College, Oxford. Set up a Professorship of Anaesthesia at Oxford University as he had always wanted to become a doctor and remembered his traumatic operation of 1928. 1938: Made a Viscount and took the name of Nuffield after the Oxfordshire village he was living in. 1943: The Nuffield foundation was begun with a gift of £10 million in shares from the Morris Motors company. He was to give over £30 million to charity during his life, mainly to medical and scientific causes. Marriage: 1904 to Elizabeth Anstey. Places of Interest: OXFORDSHIRE: Nuffield Place, Henley-on-Thames Date and Place of Death: 22nd August 1963, Nuffield Place, Henley-on-Thames. Age at Death: 86. Site of Grave: Holy Trinity Church, Nuffield, Oxfordshire, England.