Also known as the Royal Society of London (for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge). A learned society for science, granted a royal charter by King Charles II. Wren was a founding member. The Society first met at Gresham College. In 1710 it moved into its own home in two houses in Crane Court. In 1780 it moved into Somerset House, along with a number of other learned societies, and in 1967 it moved to its current location in Carlton House Terrace. Invested in the slave trade.
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Royal Society
The Society's own website says "Meeting nights were indicated by a lamp hung ...
To the memory of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. President of the Royal Society and of...
William Tierney Clark 1783 - 1852 {Beneath Clark's portrait and a representat...
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Royal Society
We 'discovered' this lost plaque while researching Sir Frederick Hopkins. Fr...
The Friends of Burgess Park are an association of people and other interested groups who are concerned to protect, promote and enhance an important, inner-city London park.
Often referred to as 'Gooners', being a play on the team's nickname of the 'Gunners'.
We think Evelyn Denington must be the politician (1907 – 1998) who served on the LCC and then the GLC, 1946 - 77, where she was Chair of ...
Livery company. Their first royal charter was granted in 1438, although they had existed from the 13th century.
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
William Somerset Maugham 1874 - 1965 Novelist and playwright lived here 1919 - 1923 "To acquire a habit for reading is to construct for y...
