Michael Faraday the father of modern electrical science was born near here.
Historic Southwark
SE1, Newington Butts, University of the Arts
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Michael Faraday - SE1
Experimental physicist, especially electro-magnetics (remember Faraday's Law?...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Michael Faraday - SE1
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropo...
Lord Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, 1788 - 1855, Commander during the Crimean War, lived here. L.C.C.
John Lindley, 1799 - 1865, botanist and pioneer orchidologist, lived here from 1836 and died here. English Heritage
The foundation stone of the Westminster Hospital for its move from Broad Sanctuary to the first of its buildings east and west of St John...
This is a foundation stone for the building.
July 2022: We thank Philip Broke for alerting us to the presence of the blue plaque, which has replaced the black one.
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
