Charles Close Society gives the history of OS Maps.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Ordnance Survey
Commemorated ati
General Roy's cannon - south
The cannon was installed in 1791 by Mudge. The plaque came later in 1926. Fr...
Major-General William Roy
Greater London Council Major-General William Roy, 1726 - 1790, founder of th...
Other Subjects
Michael Faraday
Experimental physicist, especially electro-magnetics (remember Faraday's Law?). Born in Newington Butts but brought up near Oxford Street. Trained as a bookbinder and here he was given tickets to s...
9 memorials
2 memorials
Jean Scott
Founder of The Finchley Society. Andrew Behan found their website very informative: Jean Leslie Scott, The Finchley Society’s founder, was born on 21 March 1921 and lived in Finchley since her ch...
Person, Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration, Science
1 memorial
Prof. Sir Ernst Chain
Born Ernst Boris Chain in Germany. Biochemist. Moved to England in 1933. 1945 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for work on penicillin. Founder of Imperial College's Bioche...
1 memorial
Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford
Inventor and adventurer. Born Woburn, Massachusetts. Having spied for the British in America he moved to England in 1776, was knighted by King George III, moved to Germany where he gained the titl...
Person, Politics & Administration, Science, France, Germany, USA
1 memorial
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