From the picture source website: "... conceived on 12 January 1820 when 14 gentlemen sat down to dinner at the Freemason's Tavern, in Lincoln's Inn Fields .... the new Society was born on 10 March 1820 with the first meeting of the Council and the Society as a whole." Became the Royal Astronomical Society in 1831.
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Astronomical Society
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William Wollaston - lost plaque
We 'discovered' this lost plaque while researching Sir Frederick Hopkins. Fr...
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Captain William Mudge
Surveyor. Born Plymouth, godson of Samuel Johnson. Served in South Carolina. 1791 joined the Ordnance Trigonometrical Survey and became its director in 1798. Thus a very important figure in the wor...
1 memorial
Sir William Siemens
Born Germany. Electrical engineer, inventor and businessman. Came to England in 1843 with an electro-plating invention. Became naturalised British subject in 1859. Also worked with the regenerativ...
1 memorial
Charles Babbage
Mathematician and pioneer of the modern computer. Probably born in Crosby Row on what is now Walworth Road. Went to school at Freeman's academy in Enfield. He was critical, to the point of rudenes...
2 memorials
Alan Turing
Mathematician, computer scientist and war-shortener. Born Alan Mathison Turing at Warrington Lodge, Warrington Avenue. He formalized the concepts of 'algorithm' and 'computation' and effectively in...
3 memorials
1 memorial
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Lindsay Anderson
NW6, Compayne Gardens, Stirling Mansions
Commemorating the centenary of cinema 1996. Lindsay Anderson (1923-1994), film and theatre director, critic and writer, ‘This sporting L...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Piotr Ouspensky
Philosopher. Born in Moscow. He became a pupil of George Gurdjieff who taught that most humans live their lives in a state of hypnotic "waking sleep", but that it is possible to transcend to a high...
1 memorial
Frampton Street WW2 bomb
NW8, Frampton Street, Stanfield House
In our photo the plaque can be seen on the corner, below the satellite dishes. The National Archives catalogue lists some entries which ...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Ebenezer Church - Prince Oscar
SE16, St Olav's Square, St Olav's Church
This is the foundation stone from the Norwegian church that preceded St Olavs, at another site.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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