Born Tarradale, Ross and Cromarty. Had a successful army career and was set to dedicate the rest of his life to fox-hunting, before, with his wife's encouragement, turning to science. Geologist. Worked with Lyell in Europe. Had a long public and furious debate with De la Beche.
Died at home, 16 Belgrave Square.
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Sir Roderick Murchison
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Geber / Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan
Chemist, alchemist, astronomer, astrologer, engineer, geographer, philosopher, physicist, and pharmacist and physician. The first practical alchemist.
1 memorial
Chambers Nicholson
Chemist and dye manufacturer. We found this man in Grace's Guide: Born in Lincoln as Edward Chambers Nicholson. 1845 became one of the first students at the Royal College of Chemistry. 1853 he form...
1 memorial
John Hopkinson
Born Manchester. Electrical engineer. Invented and patented the three-wire distribution system (if you've ever wired in a plug you will know what this means). Died, with three of his children, in...
1 memorial
Sir William Ramsay
Born at 2 Queen's Crescent, Glasgow. he studied in Tübingen and Glasgow. Following the discovery of helium, it occurred to him that there was room in the periodic table for a new eighth group of el...
1 memorial
First Electric Telegraph
Telegraphic messages were first sent successfully by Sir Francis Ronalds using an eight mile long grid in his back garden in Hammersmith. He tried to interest the Admiralty in his invention, but th...
1 memorial
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Robert Stephenson
Railway and civil engineer. Born near Newcastle upon Tyne. Son of George Stephenson who built "the Rocket" locomotive in 1827. Robert was Chief Engineer of the London to Birmingham Railway which ...
4 memorials
James Burton
WC1, Guilford Street, 92
This was Burton's home, where he lived whilst building Guilford Street and the south side of Brunswick Square. It now belongs to the Univ...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
Whittington statuette - Felbridge
RH19, Eastbourne Road, Whittington College
The statuette shows Whittington in the same pose as that of the Felbridge Carew statue but it is only about 12 inches high and the fine m...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
King George Tupou V
Former king of Tonga. His full name was Siaosi Tāufaʻāhau Manumataongo Tukuʻaho Tupou V. Educated in New Zealand, Britain and Switzerland and trained at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He su...
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Tyburn tree
The first recorded execution here was the hanging of the champion of London's poor, William Fitz Osbern in 1196. Back then there may have been a real tree but in 1571 the 'Tyburn Tree' was erected....
5 memorials
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