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
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Sir Humphry Davy
Chemist. Born Penzance. Wrote "Researches, Chemical and Philosophical". Discovered potassium, sodium, barium, strontium, etc. Invented the safety lamp for coal miners.
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Charles Lyell
Born at Kinnordy House, near Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland. Geologist. A practicing lawyer, deliberately working all over the country so he could study the local geology. His multi-volume "Principles...
3 memorials
Sir Clive Sinclair
Inventor: pocket calculator, computers and . . . . the C5. Born as Clive Marles Sinclair on 30 July 1940 near Richmond-upon-Thames. He was the eldest of the three children of George William Carter...
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James Maxwell
Developed the electromagnetic theory, unifying previous unrelated results. Born Edinburgh. Professor of Natural Philosophy at King's College London, 1860 - 65. Died Cambridge. Buried near Castle Do...
2 memorials
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S. J. Theobald
Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man: Private Sidney Jack Theobald was born in 1895 in Clapham, the younger son of James Theobald and Charlotte Grace Theobald née Fisher. H...
War dead, WW1
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William Reeve
Composer. Born London. 1783 took a composing job at Astley's Amphitheatre. Went on to compose at Covent Garden and Sadler's Wells theatres amongst others. Died at home in Marchmont Street.
1 memorial
Stevie Smith
Author and poet. Born Florence Margaret Smith in Kingston upon Hull. She supposedly got her nickname when out riding with a friend, who thought she looked like the jockey Steve Donoghue. Her father...
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Robert H. Pearson
Co-churchwarden of Mary Abbots Church, Kensington, June 1879.
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St Luke's Parochial Schools
St Luke's Old Street Conservation Plan (a pdf) refers to "History of St Luke's School" by M. Routledge, 1989, a book or leaflet, we assume.
6 memorials
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