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 of Geology" shaped our understanding of how the Earth was formed. Worked with Murchison in Europe. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition. Godfather to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Buried in Westminster Abbey.
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Charles Lyell
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Great Exhibition and Prince Albert
Designed by Joseph Durham with modifications by Sydney Smirke. Inaugurated by...
Lyell & Gladstone
LCC In a house on this site lived from 1854 - 1875, Sir Charles Lyell, geolo...
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Sir William Addison
Historian and author. Born William Wilkinson Addison at Mitton, Lancashire. He moved to Buckhurst Hill on the edge of Epping Forest, Essex, and began a lifelong association with the area, which res...
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Edward Arthur Last-Smith
Edward Arthur Last Smith was born on 22 March 1884 in Torquay, Devon, the second of the five children of Edward Last Smith (1856-1937) and Emily Phyllis Smith née Dixon (1863-1936). His father was ...
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Robert Davis
Solicitor and Westminster Councillor. Mayor of Westminster 1996/97.
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Sir William Francis Kyffin Taylor
G.B.E., K.C., Master of the Bench, 1905 - 1951, Treasurer of Inner Temple 1926. 1st and last Baron Maenan.
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Old Hall, Lincoln's Inn
The construction was partly funded by a sharp increase in the fine for "fornicating with a woman in chambers".
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