Astronomer
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James Ferguson
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Francis Cranmer Penrose
Architect, archaeologist, astronomer and rower. Born Lincolnshire. Surveyor to the Fabric of St Paul's Cathedral 1852 - 1899. Died Wimbledon.
2 memorials
Johannes Kepler
Mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. Best known for his laws of planetary motion.
1 memorial
Major-General William Roy
Military engineer, surveyor, antiquary. Born South Lanarkshire. Founder of the Ordnance Survey. 1749-55, one of a team that produced "The Duke of Cumberland's Map", commissioned by George II as ...
Person, Armed Forces, Engineering, History, Science, Scotland
2 memorials
Georges Cuvier
French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuvier was a major figure in natural sciences research in the early 19th century and was instrumenta...
1 memorial
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...
3 memorials
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Haroon Shamsher
Musician. Born in Bradford. His father was a Bangladeshi immigrant who ran a traditional tape shop in London’s East End. Haroon and his younger brother Farook, started the Joi Bangla Sound System i...
1 memorial
5 - Mrs McCulloch
N7, Caledonian Road, 426
These 6 plaques are on the east elevation of the building, below the ground floor windows. We have numbered the plaques left to right. F...
1 subject commemorated
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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