Amateur astronomer. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1951.
Born York.
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Earl of Rosse, William Parsons
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Great Exhibition and Prince Albert
Designed by Joseph Durham with modifications by Sydney Smirke. Inaugurated by...
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Edward Jenner
Spent most of his life in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, where he was born (in the vicarage) and died (at home,The Chantry). First doctor to study smallpox vaccine. Trained with John Hunter at St Georg...
4 memorials
Stephen Hawking
English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasia...
1 memorial
Samuel Morse
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born on 27 April 1791 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA. He was an artist who travelled to Italy, Switzerland ,France and England where in 1811 he gained admittance...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics, "the father of nuclear physics" and "the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday". Awarded the Nobel...
1 memorial
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Bombs 7/7/05 - Circle line - EC3
EC3, Aldgate High Street, Aldgate Tube Station
The Queen visited to view the plaque on 24 February 2010. It is very well-presented; on each of our two visits the plants were fresh and...
9 subjects commemorated
Octavia Hill
Housing reformer and co-founder of The National Trust. Born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, her father's eighth daughter (yes, really). She believed that social housing should be small houses (rather...
Person, Gardens / Agriculture, History, Property, Social Welfare
9 memorials
Druid Street arch WW2 bomb 2
SE1, Druid Street
This is an unusual, hand-made memorial. Although it looks quite old, historic Google Street Views show that it was erected between April ...
Civilian war dead | WW2
75 subjects commemorated
75 subjects commemorated
Downham Health Leisure Centre
A community centre in the Borough of Lewisham, It contains a large swimming pool, gym, library and creche.
1 memorial
Khalil Gibran
Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer. Born in what is now Lebanon, emigrated as a young man with his family to US. Best known for The Prophet, 1923, popular in the 60s.
1 memorial
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