Person    | Male  Died 1776

James Ferguson

Categories: Science

Astronomer

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James Ferguson

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Old Church Garden - burials

The right-most of 3 plaques on the back wall of the garden.

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Sir Richard Arkwright

Sir Richard Arkwright

Industrialist and inventor. From Preston. Set up a factory with a newly designed method of cotton-spinning. He worked his employees, including children, very hard and became very rich.

Person, Industry, Science

1 memorial
Sir William Ramsay

Sir William Ramsay

Born at 2 Queen's Crescent, Glasgow. he studied in Tübingen and Glasgow. Following the discovery of helium, it occurred to him that there was room in the periodic table for a new eighth group of el...

Person, Science, Germany, Scotland

1 memorial
Fred Hoyle

Fred Hoyle

Sir Fred Hoyle FRS was an astronomer who held some controversial views. He coined the term"Big Bang", even though he rejected the theory, preferring the "steady-state model".  He also believed that...

Person, Science

1 memorial
Marie Sklodowska-Curie

Marie Sklodowska-Curie

From LSHTM: "Marie Sklodowska-Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences: physics and chemistr...

Person, Science, Seriously Famous, France, Poland

1 memorial
Earl of Rosse, William Parsons

Earl of Rosse, William Parsons

Amateur astronomer. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1951.Born York.

Person, Science, Ireland

1 memorial

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W. Beeson & Sons

W. Beeson & Sons

Trader at Covent Garden Market at its original site.

Group, Commerce

1 memorial
J. H. McCrudden

J. H. McCrudden

Killed in WW1.

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War dead, WW1
1 memorial