1854 - 1931
This library is dedicated to Sir Charles Parsons, scientist and engineer who in the XIX century invented and perfected the compound steam turbine.
The memory of the great is enshrined in books.
WC1, Guilford Street, London House
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Parsons Library
Scientist and engineer. Designed marine turbines. Born 13 Connaught Place, H...
Israel Zangwill, 1864 - 1926, writer and philanthropist, lived here. London County Council
English Heritage Sir William Ramsay, 1852-1916 chemist, discoverer of the noble gases, lived here, 1887-1902.
British Pathe have film of this ceremony: The Queen Mum looks pretty experienced with a cement trowel and stone hammer, while the then Pr...
Manufacturers of printing ink for the newspaper industry. Its head office was at Wine Office Court off Fleet Street.
Wikipedia suggests that Colbeck and his family moved to this address in 1914, and the ODNB says he died here. But from the plain style of...
The plaque gives his birth year as 1863, when, according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, it was 1869.
Suffragist and trades unionist. Born Mary Reid Macarthur in Glasgow. She was the general secretary of the Women's Trade Union League and was involved in the formation of the National Federation of ...
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