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Written by David Singmaster (zingmast@sbu.ac.uk ). Links to relevant external websites are being added occasionally to this gazetteer but the BSHM has no control over the availability or contents of these links. Please inform the BSHM Webster (A.Mann@gre.ac.uk) of any broken links.
[When the gazetteer was edited for serial publication in the BSHM Newsletter, references were omitted since the bibliography was too substantial to be included. Publication on the web permits references to be included for material now being added to the website, but they are still absent from material originally prepared for the Newsletter - TM, August 2002]
Roger Bacon (1214-1294) was born at Ilchester, near Yeovil, where there is a commemorative tablet in the church [Eagle & Carnell, p. 139].
The Innerpeffray Library was the first free public lending library in Britain, founded in 1691 by David Drummond, third Lord Maddertie. Ruth Wallis gave an illustrated account of this library in BSHM Newsletter 33 (Spring 1997) 35-37.
Near Braemar, has an obelisk to John (or Johann von) Lamont (1805-1879), Astronomer Royal of Bavaria [Hatt, p. 113], who was born in Braemar.
c. 4 miles NE of Ipswich is the village of Playford: G. B. Airy (1801-1892) had a cottage and is buried in the churchyard. There is a bust of him.
Written by David Singmaster. Last updated on 28th February 2003 by TM (A.Mann@gre.ac.uk). Copyright © BSHM and David Singmaster 1998 - 2003. All rights reserved.
The British Society for the History of Mathematics is registered as a company limited by guarantee, no. 3326816, and as a charity, no. 1061229. Its registered office is c/o Andrew Thurburn & Co, 38 Tamworth Road, Croydon, Surrey CR0 1XU, UK.