12 Norham Road is a large house in North Oxford which was the home from 1936 of Oxford academic Dr Kirstie Morrison. When she died in 1998, she left the house in her will to The Oxford Group (the charitable body of what is now Initiatives of Change UK).
Below is a brief timeline of the house.
| 31 April 1936 |
Christine (Kirstie) Morrison (aged 33) rents 12 Norham Rd (upper flat) from Myrtle Strode-Jackson.
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| 1965 |
Mary Souter moves into downstairs flat.
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| 21 Oct 1968 |
Myrtle dies.
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| 1968 |
Kirstie buys 69 Chalfont Rd for £4,650, but remains living at 12A Norham Rd.
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| 1970 |
Kirstie’s rent for 12 Norham Rd is £50 a quarter, due ‘Midsummer Quarter Day’.
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| August 1970 |
Kirstie sells 69 Chalfont Rd for £5,850 to Rachel Trickett, a fellow English don, who became Principal of St Hugh’s in 1973.
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| August 1970 |
Kirstie buys the leasehold of 12 Norham Rd for £850 and buys the freehold from St John’s for £6,000.
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| 1975 |
Kirstie invites Charis Waddy to live with her.
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| 1975-1980 |
In 1975 Kirstie proposes to Mary Souter that they swap flats, because Kirstie would prefer to be downstairs in her old age (72 in 1975). Mary S refuses to move, but finally does so, after legal proceedings threatened, in 1980.
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| 1993 |
Kirstie (now aged 90) arranges to lease the upstairs flat to the Oxford Group. Mary Souter agrees to move out and Peter, Su and Gracie Riddell move in.
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| 1998 | Kirstie dies. Leaves whole building to Oxford Group. |
