Engineer and peace activist. Born in Lausanne. He worked in the United States and Japan, returning to Switzerland at the outbreak of WW1. He became a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned because he refused to pay taxes that would be used for the acquisition of arms. After the war he quit his career and devoted his life to peace activism. He co-founded the peace organisation Service Civil International (SCI).
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Pierre Cérésole
Let us take the risks of peace upon ourselves not impose the risks of war upo...
Junior Assisant 4th Engineer on the RMS Titanic. There would appear to some confusion as to the correct name of this man. Some records show him as Renny Dodds, but he can also be found on memorial...
Civil engineer. FRS. Born Scotland into a long line of civil engineers. In London worked on: Metropolitan Railway extension Whitechapel tp Bow and Kew Bridge. Died at his home, The Anchorage, Ha...
Believed to have assisted Fowler in his work on the Concise Oxford Dictionary. The Latin on the memorial, 'castigavit et emendavit', translates as “he corrected and improved“, which is quite an ac...
Resident engineer on the construction of the Rotherhithe Tunnel in 1908.
Engineer known for inventing the Bessemer process for producing steel. Born Charlton, Hertfordshire. Moved to London aged 17. From 1833 he lived at 15 Northampton Square, the EC1 site now occupied ...
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