Born at Kinnordy House, near Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland. Geologist. A practicing lawyer, deliberately working all over the country so he could study the local geology. His multi-volume "Principles of Geology" shaped our understanding of how the Earth was formed. Worked with Murchison in Europe. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition. Godfather to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Buried in Westminster Abbey.
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Charles Lyell
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Great Exhibition and Prince Albert
Designed by Joseph Durham with modifications by Sydney Smirke. Inaugurated by...
Lyell & Gladstone
LCC In a house on this site lived from 1854 - 1875, Sir Charles Lyell, geolo...
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Clement Ferrier Burton
Solicitor. Born Norfolk. 1891 finds him living in Buckhurst Hill. 1901, Churchwarden of St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe. Clement Ferrier Burton was born on 22 April 1852 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, the ...
1 memorial
Cannon Hall
A Queen Anne mansion. The name probably refers to the whole estate at the time, not just the house. About 1730, when the house was used as a court, a lock-up was built into the garden wall. Gerald ...
1 memorial
Captain Egerton Lowndes Wright, MC
Egerton Lowndes Wright was born on 15 November 1885 in Lytham, Lancashire, the second of the four children of Henry Lowndes Wright (1854-1940) and Alice Maud Wright née Eckersley (1861-1914). His W...
War dead, WW1
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Frank Nathaniel Steiner
Frank Nathaniel Steiner was Chairman of the City of London Planning & Communications Committee in 1973. 1973-1984 Clerk to the Company of Gardeners. From The Brotherhood: The Secret World of...
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R. J. Buckingham
Mayor of Hammersmith 1946 - 49. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man: Reginald James Buckingham was born on 8 April 1887 in Exeter, Devon. He was the second child and only son of Fre...
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