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 Rims", amongst others.
Died London.
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Reginald Ruggles Gates
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Marie Stopes - NW3
Marie Carmichael Stopes, 1880 - 1958. Writer, dramatist and poet. Publicist...
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George James Symons
Pioneer in the scientific study of rainfall. Born 28 Queen's Row, Pimlico. Founder of the British Rainfall Organization. Twice president of the Royal Meteorological Society. Died at home, 62 Camden...
1 memorial
Sir William Hooker
Botanist. Born William Jackson Hooker at 7 Magdalen Street, Norwich. He collected specimens of mosses from Scotland and Iceland. Became first director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1841. Fat...
Person, Gardens / Agriculture, Science, Iceland / Faroe Islands, Scotland
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Sir Charles Wheatstone
Born at Barnwood Manor House, Barnwood, near Gloucester. Knighted 30 Jan. 1868. Died Paris. Inventor of things such as the English concertina and the stereoscope but best known for the Wheatstone b...
2 memorials
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LEO - Lyons Electronic Office
The world's first business computer was built and operated by J. Lyons & Co. The LEO website provides: In October 1947, the directors of J. Lyons & Company, a British catering company famo...
1 memorial
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Winston Churchill - Epping 1
CM16, Epping High Street, 237 - 243
The blue plaque is beneath the third set of windows from the left. The other plaque is on the right above the woman with the pram.
1 subject commemorated,
3 creators
Jane Austen Society
Formed initially to preserve Jane's cottage in the village of Chawton, Hampshire. This was purchased in 1947 and is now open to the public.
1 memorial
Punch and Judy
Punch's Puppet Show was first performed in England and witnessed by Samuel Pepys 1662, in Covent Garden. And still popular in 2015.
2 memorials
Laburnum Street School - right
E2, Laburnum Road, Laburnum Boat Club
Ex-pupil Brian Longman tells us that these two stone plaques, all that remain of the school, were above the entrances. They must have bee...
1 subject commemorated
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