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iron lung, Lord Nuffield, Morris Motors, National Trust, Nuffield Foundation, Nuffield Place, Oxford colleges, Wolseley
The final National Trust property we visited was Nuffield Place, the surprisingly modest – in the circumstances – house built by William Morris, founder of Morris Motors in Oxford, later to become Lord Nuffield. Unsurprisingly, we saw a few cars.
Lady Nuffield’s Wolseley
We wandered in the gardens.
We saw a small shed containing this iron lung. 
Lord Nuffield gave 5000 of them, made at his factory in Cowley, to hospitals throughout the British Empire. £12,000,000 was an awful lot of money in the 1930s.
We went into the house. 
The robes worn by Lord and Lady Nuffield at the 1937 Coronation
In Lady Nuffield’s bedroom
In Lord Nuffield’s bedroom. Really.
Personally I found the order of this more appealing.
Opinions between us differed as to whether we liked this bathroom.
The double spare bedroom
‘The horn of Plenty’. Oxford colleges benefit from Lord Nuffield’s wealth. The Nuffield Foundation continues to ‘improve social well-being through education, research, and innovation’
A trip to the woods was the treat on the last day of my visit.
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