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Royal Society

Also known as the Royal Society of London (for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge). A learned society for science, granted a royal charter by King Charles II. Wren was a founding member. The Society first met at Gresham College. In 1710 it moved into its own home in two houses in Crane Court. In 1780 it moved into Somerset House, along with a number of other learned societies, and in 1967 it moved to its current location in Carlton House Terrace. Invested in the slave trade.

The motto on their coat of arms is: Nullius in verba, Take nobody's word for it.

 

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Royal Society

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Crane Court - Royal Society

The Society's own website says "Meeting nights were indicated by a lamp hung ...

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Sloane tomb

To the memory of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. President of the Royal Society and of...

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William Tierney Clark - Fulham Reach

William Tierney Clark 1783 - 1852 {Beneath Clark's portrait and a representat...

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Royal Society

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William Wollaston - lost plaque

We 'discovered' this lost plaque while researching Sir Frederick Hopkins. Fr...

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Grand Lodge of England

Grand Lodge of England

By 1717 the Masonic lodges were already clubs having no connection to stone-masonry. Four London lodges met at the Goose and Gridiron pub in St Paul's Churchyard and formed the first Grand Lodge, i...

Group, Community / Clubs, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
Dickens Fellowship

Dickens Fellowship

A worldwide association of people who share an interest in the life and works of Charles Dickens, based at the Charles Dickens Museum since 1925.

Group, Community / Clubs, Literature

3 memorials
Silvester Schiele

Silvester Schiele

Coal merchant and co-founder of Rotary International.

Person, Commerce, Community / Clubs, USA

1 memorial
Copers Cope Area Residents Association

Copers Cope Area Residents Association

Founded to protect and promote the local interests of residents of Central and Northern Beckenham.  

Group, Community / Clubs

1 memorial

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H. Pell

H. Pell

Served in the Royal Navy.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Aske's Hospital - left - 1828

Aske's Hospital - left - 1828

N1, Pitfield Street

Note that the plaque says that not only was a new building erected but also that the site was extended into the adjacent ground.

3 subjects commemorated, 5 creators
Henry Charles Fehr

Henry Charles Fehr

Sculptor.  Born Forest Hill into a family of Swiss origin.  Died London.  Other work in London: Passmore Edwards Library E3, Methodist Central Hall (with Henry Poole) and the 1893 Perseus Rescuing ...

Person, Sculpture

13 memorials
Burgess Park designers - 1979 air crash

Burgess Park designers - 1979 air crash

SE5, Burgess Park, Cobourg Road

Geoffrey Mills was the pilot - see his page for more details. Our information comes from the British Newspaper Archive: the Birmingham Da...

6 subjects commemorated
Kings Road tenements WW2 attack

Kings Road tenements WW2 attack

From Guinness Partnership History: "The biggest single loss of life at The Guinness Trust estates occurred in one night and at one estate – the 23 February 1944 at the Kings Road tenements. Bombers...

Event, Tragedy

1 memorial