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29 Mackenzie Road1901 (as No 12)
Ella S Wilson, 27, b Lancashire
Joan D, 1, b Cambridge
Ruth Freestone, 18, general servant, b Cambridge
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1911
Richard William Mean, 39, turf accountant, b Sawston
Iva Elizabeth, 26, b Cambridge
Verna Leavis, 3, b Cambridge
Eleanor Martha Dorkings, 17, general servant, b Cambridge
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1939
Thomas Page, b 1871, butcher (foreman)
Lily, b 1869, unpaid domestic duties
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1970: John Horvat
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HvB sent this note in 2023:
In 1980 the house was one of several owned by the great Doctor Horvat, who rented rooms to students. Famously he remarked that “marriages are made in heaven – and in my houses.” At least three marriages resulted among his tenants.
The late Zurine de Aguirre Aranzabal, niece of the President of the Basque Government, lived there in 1980, occupying the small mezzanine room next to the bathroom.
Also, tragically, in 1980 a young Nigerian student died quite unexpectedly in the first floor room overlooking the patio. He had been a friend of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.
Occupants in 1980 were:
Henry von Blumenthal
Jan Elzer (Amsterdam)
Monica Cernohorsky (Brazil)
Nicholas Spoerri (Switzerland)
Zurine de Aguirre (Vitoria)
Nieves Buenechea (San Sebastián)
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