Person    | Male  Born 23/5/1707  Died 10/1/1778

Carl Linnaeus

Categories: Race Issues, Science

Countries: Sweden

Born Stenbrohult, Småland in southern Sweden. Inventor of a system for naming, ranking, and classifying organisms. One of the great collectors of the 18th century. At his death Joseph Banks tried but failed to buy the collection, which is now housed in the Linnaean Society in Burlington House.

2021: His relationship with racism is being described as 'complicated'.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Carl Linnaeus

Commemorated ati

This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Carl Linnaeus

Creations i

Daniel Solander

{3 sides of the boarding around a tree carry painted text:} Swedish botanist ...

Read More

Other Subjects

Sir Robert Geffrye

Sir Robert Geffrye

Alderman, merchant and slave trader. From Cornwall, possibly Landrake. DOB uncertain. A member of the Ironmongers' Company and Lord Mayor, 1685-6. Married but produced no children and his wife pred...

Person, Lord Mayor, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Race Issues

1 memorial
Stephen Lushington

Stephen Lushington

Doctor of Civil Law, judge, MP, supporter of the campaigns for the abolition of slavery and of capital punishment.  Born Berkshire.  Died Surrey.

Person, Law, Politics & Administration, Race Issues

1 memorial
Sir Henry Taylor

Sir Henry Taylor

Born Bishop Middleham, County Durham. Poet, playwright and public servant. He went to sea as a young man, but after finding it did not agree with his health, took up a position in the Treasury. H...

Person, Poetry, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Theatre

1 memorial
Lord Teignmouth, John Shore

Lord Teignmouth, John Shore

Anti-slavery campaigner.  Born St James Street, Piccadilly but brought up in Romford.  1769 went to work in Bengal where he was one of the first to learn a number of the local languages.  Like many...

Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Religion, Indian Sub-continent

1 memorial
George Alexander Gratton

George Alexander Gratton

Born on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent in 1808 to slave parents. Born with vitiligo, also known as piebaldism he was, as a baby, put on show in the capital, Kingstown. Aged 15 months he was ta...

Person, Children, Race Issues, Caribbean Islands

1 memorial

Previously viewed

Harry Pearce

Harry Pearce

Graphic designer, of Pentagram.

Person, Craft / Design

1 memorial
Carpenters' Hall plaque - rebuilding

Carpenters' Hall plaque - rebuilding

EC2, London Wall, 1 Throgmorton Avenue

The plaque refers to the unveiling day being 'Election Day'. There was no General Election in 1956. The Lord Mayor's election to office d...

2 subjects commemorated, 8 creators
George Cressey
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Private E. Abbett

Private E. Abbett

Added to the Teddington memorial with the "Additional names 1915 - 1918".

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Donald Campbell

Donald Campbell

Land and water speed record-holder. Born Donald Malcolm Campbell, Canbury, Kingston Hill, Surrey. After the death of his father (Sir Malcolm Campbell), he decided to defend his water title and rega...

Person, Sport / Games, Transport, Australia

1 memorial