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Natural Sciences and Exploration

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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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