Named for Carl Linnaeus.
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Charles Lyell
Born at Kinnordy House, near Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland. Geologist. A practicing lawyer, deliberately working all over the country so he could study the local geology. His multi-volume "Principles...
John Harrison (clocks)
Inventor of the marine chronometer. Born Yorkshire. Died London. Buried at St John's Church, Hampstead, strangely, since he died in Red Lion Square and had no connections with Hampstead. The pictu...
Venn diagram
Invented by Dr John Venn. We think the attached picture does an excellent job of both illustrating all you need to know about how Venn diagrams work and also of succinctly answering that knotty qu...
Antoine Lavoisier
Born in Paris to a family of nobility. Considered "the father of modern chemistry", by the French anyway, who no doubt would also claim that he discovered oxygen, when we all know that was Priestl...
Sir William Crookes
Chemist, physicist and science journalist. Born 143 Regent Street, presumably in a residential apartment above his father's gentlemen's outfitters shop in the Nash-designed terraces. Worked on spec...
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Christ Church Rangers Football Club
Boys' football club founded at the Christ Church Mission in Ponsard Road, West London. It merged with the St Jude's Institute club in 1886, to form Queen's Park Rangers.
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