Following is a list of sites in London associated
with Natural Sciences and Exploration
- BEAUFORT, Sir Francis (1774-1857),
- Admiral and Hydrographer, lived here.
- BENTHAM, George (1800-1884),
- Botanist, lived here.
- BLIGH, William (1754-1817),
- Navigator, Commander of the Bounty, lived here.
- BOROUGH, Stephen (1525-1585),
- navigators who, in the latter half of the sixteenth century, set sail from this reach of the River Thames near Ratcliff Cross to explore the Northern Seas.
- BROWN, Robert (1773-1858)
- Botanists
- CAVENDISH, Honble Henry,
- Natural Philosopher, lived here, born 1731 died 1810.
- COOK, Captain James (1728-1779),
- Circumnavigator and Explorer, lived in a house on this site.
- Cook, Captain James - Navigator - Home
- DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882),
- Naturalist, lived in a house on this site 1838-1842.
- DON, David (1800-1841)
- Botanists
- FITZROY, Admiral Robert (1805-1865),
- Hydrographer and Meteorologist, lived here.
- FLINDERS, Captain Matthew, RN (1774-1814),
- Explorer and Navigator, lived here.
- FROBISHER, Sir Martin (1535-1594)
- navigator who, in the latter half of the sixteenth century, set sail from this reach of the River Thames near Ratcliff Cross to explore the Northern Seas.
- GALTON, Sir Francis (1822-1911),
- Explorer, Statistician, and Founder of Eugenics, lived here for fifty years.
- JEFFERIES, Richard (1848-1887),
- Naturalist and Writer, lived here.
- Kew Gardens - Royal Botanic Gardens
- KINGSLEY, Mary (1862-1900),
- Traveller and Ethnologist, lived here as a child.
- LEYELL, Sir Charles (1797-1875)
- Geologist, and from 1876-1882
- LOCKYER, Sir Norman (1836-1920)
- Astronomer, Physicist and Founder of Nature, lived here1876-1920
- Natural History Museum
- Navigators Memorial
- NEWTON, Sir Isaac (1642-1727),
- Scientist, Natural Philosopher, lived here.
- PITT-RIVERS, Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox (1827-1900),
- Anthropologist and Archaeologist, lived here.
- Rae, John (1813 – 1893)
- Pioneering explorer and survivalist
- ROSS, Sir James Clark (1800-1862),
- Polar Explorer, lived here.
- SCAWEN-BLUNT, Wilfrid (1840-1922),
- Diplomat, Poet and Traveller, Founder of Crabbet Park Arabian stud, lived here.
- SCOTT Captain, Robert Falcon (1868-1912),
- Antartic Explorer, lived here.
- SHACKLETON, Sir Ernest Henry (1874-1922),
- Antartic Explorer, lived here.
- Stanfords
- Travel books, maps and the like.
Long
Acre
- STANLEY, Sir Henry Morton (1841-1904),
- Explorer and Writer, lived and died here.
- STUART, John McDouall (1815-1866),
- First Explorer to cross Australia, lived and died here.
- THOMPSON, Sir Benjamin, Count Rumford (1753-1814),
- Inventor and Adventurer, lived here.
- WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823-1913),
- Naturalist, lived here.
- WHEELER, Sir Mortimer (1890-1976),
- Archaeologist, lived here.
- WILLOUGHBY, Sir Hugh.
- This plaque is in memory of Sir Hugh WILLOUGHBY (d.1554) navigators who, in the latter half of the sixteenth century, set sail from this reach of the River Thames near Ratcliff Cross to explore the Northern Seas.
- WILSON, Edward Adrian (1872-1912),
- Antarctic Explorer and Naturalist, lived here.
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