St Giles, Oxford

Nos. 45–46: St John’s College Research Centre

45-46 St Giles

This pair of houses, with an iron balcony over the two central front doorways, dates from the early nineteenth century. It is a Grade II listed building (List Entry No. 1047146)

No. 45 At the time of the 1851 census the solicitor Charles Law lived here with his wife Sarah and baby son Charles, plus three house servants. Ten years later the house was occupied by Thomas Batye, a 65-year-old homeopathic surgeon, and his wife and five grown-up children (the eldest son, William, was also a surgeon), plus their two servants.

No. 46 At the time of the 1881 census this house was occupied by William W. Robinson, an unmarried solicitor and coroner aged 64, and his two servants.

Occupants listed in censuses and directories
Date	45 St Giles	46 St Giles
1846	Rev. Stephen John Rigaud	Rev. Stephen Reay, B.D.
1851–1852	Charles James Law Attorney
1861	Thomas Battye Surgeon
1866	Rev. W. Acworth, M.A.	Miss Hargrave
1869	Henry Purdue
1871	Edward Benjamin Gray, M.D.
1875	Edward Benjamin Gray, M.D.	William Wharton Robinson Solicitor,& Coroner for the central district of Oxfordshire
1876–1905	Revd Frederick Metcalfe Vicar of St Michael’s (Misses Metcalfe 1887–1937)
1907–1915		Alexander George Gibson Surgeon
1919–1937		Herbert James Pegler Dental surgeon
1939	City Typewriter Co. & Carfax School of Shorthand (Hunts)	Herbert James Pegler Dental surgeon
1941–1945		Commissioners of Church Temporalities in Wales
1947–1954		Herbert James Pegler Dental surgeon
1956–1962	Hunts (Oxford) Ltd Typewriter dealers	Herbert James Pegler Dental surgeon
1964–1973	Eckersley School of English	Cunningham & Gibaud Loss adjusters Edmund R. Gibbs & Co. Certified accountants
1975–1976	—
1994–1999	Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
2001–present	St John’s Research Centre