Nuffield Place, designed by Oswald Milne in 1914, was the modest home of one of the world’s richest men, William Morris (1877–1963), Viscount Nuffield, the founder of Morris Motor Cars. Morris was also renowned for his domestic and international philanthropic foundations, associated with business, education and medicine and The Nuffield Foundation was founded in 1943 with an endowment of £10 million. Both Morris and his wife were from humble backgrounds and were neither connoisseurs nor collectors. Floral pictures proliferate, and the most beautiful object in the house is arguably Morris’s metal and leather electronic exercise-horse. The ownership of this house and its contents was passed, on Morris’s death, to Nuffield College, Oxford, of which he was also founder. They had opened it to the public on a limited basis, but gave it to the National Trust in 2011.