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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T. V. and Anthony Edwards
Anthony is a senior partner of the law firm T. V. Edwards which was established by his uncle, T. V., in 1929.  Their offices at 33 Mile End Road had a large blank wall.  Anthony commissioned the mu...
1 memorial
Vernon Lushington
Born London. Lawyer and positivist. Supporter of many social causes. He introduced Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Edward Byrne-Jones. Died 36 Kensington Square.
1 memorial
Bridewell Palace / Prison
Built by Henry VIII, who lived there 1515-23. It deteriorated so that Edward VI gave it to the City of London who then used it as a prison, hospital (actually school) and workrooms. "Bridewell" was...
2 memorials
Philip Noble Fawcett, LL.M.
Philip Noble Fawcett was born on 7 April 1863 in Dublin, Ireland, the younger child of Henry Fawcett (1835-1882) and Mary Maria Fawcett née Noble (1834-1906). On 1 May 1863 he was baptised in St. P...
Person, Armed Forces, Law, Politics & Administration, Ireland
1 memorial
Lord Bingham of Cornhill
Born as Thomas Henry Bingham on 13 October 1933, his birth was registered in the Marylebone registration district. Appointed to the High Court Bench (Queen's Bench Division) in 1980; a Lord Justic...
2 memorials
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