Amateur astronomer. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1951.
Born York.
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Earl of Rosse, William Parsons
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Great Exhibition and Prince Albert
Designed by Joseph Durham with modifications by Sydney Smirke. Inaugurated by...
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Edward Somerset, second Marquess of Worcester
Courtier and scientist. Called Lord Herbert. Catholic. In the court of King Charles I.
1 memorial
John Newlands
Chemist. Born John Alexander Reina at 19 West Square, Southwark. The first person to devise a periodic table of chemical elements arranged in order of their relative atomic masses. He arranged all ...
1 memorial
Atlas Dyeworks
The Simpson, etc. plaque commemorates the Dyeworks which were at Victory Place 1859 - 68. This page refers to that site but also refers to the Hackney Dyeworks to which Atlas expanded. The photo sh...
2 memorials
René Descartes
Philosopher, mathematician, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Netherlands.
1 memorial
IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
This is a professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operations centre in Piscata...
2 memorials
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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Plaistow Road WW2 air attack
E15, Plaistow Road, 163
Our colleague Andrew Behan points out the following errors on this plaque: Fitzgerald's first name should have only one 'n'; Short was a ...
War served, Civilian war dead | WW2
9 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
9 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
Sir Robert Walpole
First Prime Minister of Great Britain. An early political victim of satire, the target of Swift, Pope, Fielding, Johnson, Hogarth and Thomas Gay. Walpole responded by setting up the office of the...
3 memorials
Thomas Davies
The bookseller and author who, in 1763, introduced Dr Samuel Johnson to James Boswell at his house in Russell Street. He took to bookselling after failing as an actor.
1 memorial
Sir Mansfield Cumming
SW1, Whitehall Court, 2
English Heritage write: "At various times between 1911 and 1922, flats 53 and 54 - on the building's seventh floor - served not just as C...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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