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Plaque

Sir Leonard and Austin Hill

Erection date: 2/7/2021

Inscription

At Nafferton Lodge, on this site, lived Sir Leonard Hill FRS (1866-1952) medical researcher, and his son Sir Austin Bradford Hill FRS (Tony) (1897 - 1991), joint discoverers of the link between smoking and cancer.
Loughton Town Council, 2021

Site: Sir Leonard and Austin Hill (1 memorial)

IG10, Nafferton Rise

Previously this drive led to a house known as Osborne House (1885, 1905-11, certainly). We believe that this leg of what is now Nafferton Rise used to be the driveway that ended at the house, which was at its most northerly point. We traced it on old maps 1871-1936 (here's , by which time the house was Nafferton Lodge) but cannot confirm when it was built, nor when it was demolished. Given the date of what has been built on its grounds (Richmond Court blocks of flats and garages), to the south-east of the house, it had probably gone by the 1960s.

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Sir Leonard and Austin Hill

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Sir Austin Bradford Hill (Tony)

Discovered the link between smoking and cancer. Born Hampstead, son of Sir Le...

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Sir Leonard Hill

Sir Leonard Erskine Hill was a medical researcher. Born Bruce Castle School (...

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Sir Leonard and Austin Hill

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Loughton Town Council

An Urban District Council from 1900 to 1933. It became part of Chigwell Urban...

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