What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Robin Cavendish MBE 1930-1994 Responaut. Pioneer of the first wheelchair respirator and constant champion of the needs of other severely disabled people lived here 1960-1994 Recorded plaque organisation: Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board.
Robin Cavendish MBE was a pioneering figure in disability rights who, after contracting polio, developed one of the first portable ventilators for use outside hospitals, significantly improving quality of life for those with respiratory disabilities.
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