Scientist, artist, etc. - a polymath, the first "renaissance man".
Born in Vinci, Italy (No? Really?). Died in France.
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Alfred Bestall
Author and illustrator. Born Alfred Edmeades Bestall in Mandalay, Burma. He served in the army during WW1, transporting troops in red double-decker buses. Following his studies at the L.C.C. Centra...
1 memorial
Robert Gordon McHarg III
Opened the Subway Gallery in 2006.
1 memorial
Hannah Barlow
Born Bishop's Stortford. Studied at Lambeth School of Art where she was a student of John Sparkes. Began work at Doulton's in 1871, the first female employee, she specialised in painting animals. H...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Marcus Stone
Born Marcus Clayton Stone in London, the son of artist Frank Stone who was friends with Thackeray and Dickens. Trained by his father, he was exhibiting at the Royal Academy before he was eighteen. ...
1 memorial
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National Anti-Vivisection Society
The world’s first body to challenge the use of animals in research, founded by Frances Power Cobbe, in Victoria Street SW1 as the Victoria Street Society. 1898 the group split over whether it shoul...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Spitfire aircraft
From our Picture source: "Produced in greater numbers than any other British combat aircraft before or since the War, 20,341 Spitfires were built in 22 different variants (excluding the navalised S...
5 memorials
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Aldgate
Originally a Roman gate it was rebuilt a number of times: 1108–47, 1215, 1607-09. As a customs official Chaucer lived in the rooms above the gate, 1374-1386. The Cass Charity school used the upper...
2 memorials
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