Mathematician. Born Merchiston Castle, Edinburgh, his family home. 7th Laird of Merchiston (though Wikipedia says 8th). Inventor of logarithms, so beloved of school children everywhere. Died Edinburgh.
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John Napier
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03 Croydon - John Napier
Royal Observatory Greenwich comments on a photo of this portrait and its 2 ne...
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Reginald Ruggles Gates
Husband to Marie Stopes, botanist and geneticist. Born Nova Scotia, Canada. His marriage to Marie Stopes was a very public failure. Co-authored a book entitled "The Inheritance of Hairy Ear Ri...
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Sir William Crookes
Chemist, physicist and science journalist. Born 143 Regent Street, presumably in a residential apartment above his father's gentlemen's outfitters shop in the Nash-designed terraces. Worked on spec...
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Albert Einstein
Physicist. Born in Ulm. He was proficient in maths and physics from an early age. By the time he was in his twenties he was publishing papers and was recognised as a leading scientist. In 1905, he ...
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Oliver Heaviside
Born in Camden Town. Aged 12 the family could no longer afford to send him to school so he continued studying on his own. Thus he was largely self-taught, no secondary education or university. In ...
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Thomas Campbell (poet)
Poet. Born in High Street, Glasgow. Initially, he studied law before being drawn to poetry. His better known poems include 'Ye Mariners of England' and 'The Battle of the Baltic'. Died at 5 Rue St ...
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M. W. Adams, JP
Ex officio Guardian of the Lewisham Union in 1894.
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Sir Harry Vane (the younger)
Statesman. Born Debden. As a Protestant dissenter he failed to secure the advancements at the King's court for which he had hoped and so set off to the newly established Massachusetts where he was ...
2 memorials
Billy Fury mural
NW6, Billy Fury Way, Tower Mansions
Fury lived in Cavendish Road NW6 and recorded songs in the nearby Decca Studios in Broadhurst Gardens NW6. Following a poll the path was...
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Swan Wharf & Swan Inn
In the 19th century Swan Wharf was the site of a brewery and public house 'Swan Inn', destroyed by fire in 1871. The image, an 1878 photo by William Reid, shows the tower of All Saints behind. Th...
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