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Gathorne Robert Girdlestone was born in 1881, the son of Robert Baker Girdlestone, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford and first Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.
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He went to Charterhouse and then to New College, Oxford. Gathorne Robert Girdlestone died in 1950. There are 2 roads near the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford names after Gathorne Girdlestone: Gathorne Road and Girdlestone Road.
lieutenant is difficult to know whether he would have been pleased with this honour, as he had refused to allow the Wingfield Hospital to bear his name.
