Zoologist. Born Worcester. 1827 sailed to Newfoundland where his interest in entomology began. He also travelled to Alabama and Jamaica studying the local natural sciences, returning to London in 1846. He was then one of the people who introduced aquariums to the viewing public. At one time a lay preacher, he rejected Darwin's evolution theory in his 1857 book 'Omphalos'. Father of Edmund.
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Philip Henry Gosse
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Philip and Edmund Gosse
Here lived Philip Henry Gosse, 1810 - 1888, zoologist. Sir Edmund Gosse, 1849...
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David Livingstone
Explorer, missionary, writer and medic. Born at Blantyre, just south of Glasgow. Qualified as a doctor in order to go as a medical missionary to China. Got the source of the Nile wrong and failed t...
Person, Exploring, Religion, Seriously Famous, Africa, Scotland
2 memorials
Church of St Marylebone
Old parish church , built 1400, rebuilt 1741, demolished 1949.
1 memorial
Association of Jewish Refugees
The AJR provides an extensive range of social and welfare services, and grants financial assistance to Jewish victims of Nazi persecution living in Great Britain. The AJR’s plaque scheme honours p...
5 memorials
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Alvaro del Portillo
Born Mardrid. An engineer and Roman Catholic bishop. He served as the prelate of Opus Dei between 1982 and 1994 as the successor to Escriva. Died Rome. He was beatified on 27 September 2014 in Madr...
1 memorial
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Limehouse Basin
The basin was built, as "Regent’s Canal Dock", by the Regent's Canal Company so that goods could be taken from sea-going vessels in the Thames and transferred to canal boats for distribution along ...
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Councillor Mrs Beatrice Lilian Tate
Beatrice Tate School (41 Southern Grove, E3) has researched their namesake and it is there we found this photo, captioned: "Beatrice Lilian Tate, Mayor of Bethnal Green 1952-53 (centre); Henry Edwa...
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