Credit for this entry to:
Bob Baker
Sir William Crookes, 1832 - 1919, scientist, lived here from 1880 until his death.
Greater London Council
W11, Kensington Park Gardens, 7
Crookes had a private laboratory here made possible with the inheritance from his father. At least some of the seances that he investigated were held in this house.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir William Crookes
Chemist, physicist and science journalist. Born 143 Regent Street, presumably...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir William Crookes
The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its lef...
Seems likely the plaques were put up when the side wings were added, in 1865-6.
Built by Sir Ernest George, Royal Academician, President Royal Institute of B...
Site of the Parsonage of St Nicholas Acons where scientific life assurance be...
