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Businesses (1)
- CJ Mander & Sons, solicitors London
Organisations (1)
Persons (57)
- Airy, Sir George Biddell, (1801-1892), Knight, astronomer and mathematician
- Barlow, John, (1798-1869), Secretary of Royal Institution
- Bragg, Sir William Henry, (1862-1942), Knight Physicist
- Bragg, Sir William Lawrence, (1890-1971), Knight, physicist and crystallographer
- Brande, William Thomas, (1788-1866), chemist
- Brodie, Sir Benjamin Collins, (1783-1862), 1st Baronet, surgeon
- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert, (1831-1891), 1st Earl of Lytton, Viceroy of India
- Carlyle, Thomas, (1795-1881), historian, essayist and philosopher
- Clarke, Edward Daniel, (1769-1822), traveller, antiquary and mineralogist
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, (1772-1834), poet and philosopher
- Crookes, Sir William, (1832-1919), Knight Chemist
- Dale, Sir Henry Hallett, (1875-1968), Knight, physician
- Darwin, Charles Robert, (1809-1882), naturalist
- Davy, Sir Humphry, (1778-1829), 1st Baronet, physicist
- Davy, John, (1790-1868), physiologist and anatomist
- Day, Peter, (b 1938), Professor of Chemistry Kent;Kent
- Desch, Cecil Henry, (1874-1958), metallurgist
- Dewar, Sir James, (1842-1923), Knight, chemist
- Everett, Douglas Hugh, (1916-2002), Professor of Physical Chemistry
- Faraday, Michael, (1791-1867), natural philosopher
- Fournier D'Albe, Edmund Edward, (1868-1933), physicist
- Frankland, Sir Edward, (1825-1899), Knight Chemist
- Gassiot, John Peter, (1797-1877), scientific writer
- Grove, Sir William Robert, (1811-1896), Knight Judge Scientist
- Herschel, Sir John Frederick William, (1792-1871), 1st Baronet, astronomer
- Hirst, Thomas Archer, (1830-1892), Mathematician
- Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton, (1817-1911), Knight, botanist, explorer, Director of Kew Gardens
- Huxley, Thomas Henry, (1825-1895), Scientist
- Jones, Henry Bence, (1813-1873), physician
- Keith, Sir Arthur, (1866-1955), Knight Anatomist
- Kingsley, Charles, (1819-1875), Canon of Westminster author
- Lyell, Sir Charles, (1797-1875), 1st Baronet, geologist
- Pepys, William Hasledine, (1775-1856), scientist
- Petavel, Sir Joseph Ernest, (1873-1936), Knight Physicist
- Playfair, Lyon, (1818-1898), 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews, chemist
- Porter, George, (b 1920), Baron Porter of Luddenham Chemist
- Rideal, Sir Eric Keightley, (1890-1974), Knight, Knight Physical Chemist
- Robertson, Sir Robert, (1869-1949), Knight, chemist and explosives expert
- Rosenhead, Louis, (b 1906), Applied Mathematician
- Rutherford, Ernest, (1871-1937), Baron Rutherford of Nelson, physicist
- Sabine, Sir Edward, (1788-1883), Knight, General, geophysicist
- Sacheverell, Henry, (? 1674-1724), High Churchman and Tory preacher
- Soddy, Frederick, (1877-1956), Chemist
- Spencer, Herbert, (1820-1903), philosopher
- Spottiswoode, William, (1825-1883), Mathematician and Physicist
- Stokes, Sir George Gabriel, (1819-1903), 1st Baronet, mathematician and physicist
- Strutt, John William, (1842-1919), 3rd Baron Rayleigh, mathematician and physicist
- Sylvester, James Joseph, (1814-1897), mathematician
- Talbot, William Henry Fox, (1800-1877), MP pioneer of photography
- Thompson, Benjamin, (1753-1814), Count Von Rumford, scientist
- Thomson, William, (1824-1907), Baron Kelvin, physicist
- Tyndall, John, (1820-1893), natural philosopher
- Tyrrell, Henry John Valentine, (b 1920), Professor of Chemistry
- Wanley, Humfrey, (1672-1726), antiquary, archivist, librarian Coventry, Warwickshire;Oxford, Oxfordshire;London
- Wansbrough-Jones, Sir Owen Haddon, (1906-1983), Knight, physical chemist
- Webster, Thomas, (1773-1844), Geologist
- Wheatstone, Sir Charles, (1802-1875), Knight Physicist
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (3)
- NRA 43884 George Porter, Baron Porter, chemist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 22229 Sir Eric Keightley Rideal, FRS: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 9522 Royal Institution of Great Britain: scientific MSS link to scanned list
Accessions
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