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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Percy C. Simmons
Major Sir Percy Coleman Simmons was a a solicitor and local politician. Simmons and Simmons was the legal partnership with his brother, Edward. Served in WW1. A member of the London County Council...
4 memorials
Joseph Payne
Lived in a cottage in Highgate West Hill, a deputy assistant judge, a zealous total abstainer, supporter of Bands of Hope. Temperance Standard Bearers of the Nineteenth Century: A Biographical ......
2 memorials
Old Hall, Lincoln's Inn
The construction was partly funded by a sharp increase in the fine for "fornicating with a woman in chambers".
1 memorial
Sir William Bull
Conservative MP for Hammersmith / Hammersmith South, 1900-29. William James Bull was the son of Henry Bull, a solicitor. He sat on the committees for the repairs to the Palace of Westminster, and f...
1 memorial
German internees at Alexandra Palace - WW1
These were not members of the German armed forces, they were Germans living in the UK, civilians who were considered to be enemy aliens and thus needed to be locked up for the duration. Their Engli...
2 memorials
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