gives the history of OS Maps.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Ordnance Survey
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General Roy's cannon - south
The cannon was installed in 1791 by Mudge. The plaque came later in 1926. Fr...
Major-General William Roy
Greater London Council Major-General William Roy, 1726 - 1790, founder of th...
Other Subjects
Thomas Hancock
Inventor and founder of the British rubber industry.  Born Wiltshire.  After schooling he moved to London and is recorded in1815 as a coach builder in Pulteney Street with a shop in St James's Stre...
1 memorial
Edward Jenner
Spent most of his life in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, where he was born (in the vicarage) and died (at home,The Chantry). First doctor to study smallpox vaccine. Trained with John Hunter at St Georg...
4 memorials
Sir Richard Arkwright
Industrialist and inventor. From Preston. Set up a factory with a newly designed method of cotton-spinning. He worked his employees, including children, very hard and became very rich.
1 memorial
Edward Westermarck
Philosopher and sociologist. Â Born Helsinki. Â Learnt English in order to read Darwin and others. Â Came to England in 1897 and frequently thereafter. Â Probably homosexual himself, he wrote on subjec...
1 memorial
Dr Bob McGuiness
Managing Director of NPLÂ 2000 - 2005.
1 memorial
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