The WCSIM promotes the craft of scientific instrument making and the exchange of ideas and information by members and guests through meetings, visits, lectures and social events.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers
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Glaziers Hall
The Glaziers Hall The land in this area formed part of the site of the cloist...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
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Millennium Measure
This monument is a tall, triangular, pyramidal, glass case containing a steel...
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Lord Weatherill
Trustee of The Memorial Gates Trust. Bruce Bernard Weatherill, Baron Weatherill, KStJ, PC, DL, was born on 25 November 1920, the son of Bernard Bruce Weatherill (1883-1962) and Annie Gertrude Weat...
Person, Armed Forces, Commerce, Liveries & Guilds, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Robert Edwin Villiers
Managed the London Pavilion theatre from 1886 to 1890. Robert Edwin Villiers was born on 18 April 1830 in Clerkenwell, Middlesex (now Greater London)) the son of Issac Villiers (c.1789-1863)) and ...
1 memorial
Drapers' Hall
The Drapers' Company has owned the site since 1543. The first building was destroyed in the Great Fire of London, and its successor also burnt down in 1772. The current building was designed by Joh...
1 memorial
Worshipful Company of Founders
Founders were workers in brass and brass alloys or tinplate. They made small objects such as candlesticks and weights and measures. From their website (link now dead): "Today ... the Founders' Com...
3 memorials
Worshipful Company of Masons
The masons did very well out of the post-fire rebuilding of London. From their website: "The focus of our Livery Company is to preserve and encourage the use of natural stone in the built environme...
2 memorials
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2 memorials
Wat Tyler
Leader of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. Killed at Smithfield by the Mayor of London, William Walworth.
3 memorials
William Abeling
EC1, Wynyatt Street, 7
This is an extremely unusual plaque: its form and content are unique. Clearly hand-made, the writing just looks old. The plaque is either...
1 subject commemorated
Margaret Roper
Daughter of Sir Thomas More. After her executed father’s parboiled head had been displayed on a pike at London bridge for the required month, she bribed the keeper to give it to her. She pickled it...
2 memorials
Sir William Hooker
Botanist. Born William Jackson Hooker at 7 Magdalen Street, Norwich. He collected specimens of mosses from Scotland and Iceland. Became first director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1841. Fat...
Person, Gardens / Agriculture, Science, Iceland / Faroe Islands, Scotland
1 memorial
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