In 1660, the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge was founded by Royal Charter of King Charles the Second.

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Signatories include former government chief scientist and Royal Society president Lord May as well as Zoological Society of London president Professor Sir Patrick Bateson.

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Lord Sutherland - formerly Stewart Sutherland - is a former chief inspector of schools and is currently provost at Gresham College in the City of London and president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

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The British Museum has 25 Trustees, one appointed by the Queen, 15 by the prime minister, one each by The British Academy, The Royal Academy, Royal Society and Society of Antiquaries of London and five by the Trustees themselves.

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Dr Tom Pey, chief executive of the Royal London Society for the Blind and Dorton House School, in Seal, had asked for a conductor to help him on arrival.

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Semir Zeki is a British Professor of Neuroesthetics at the University College London (UCL), a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society.

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So too were new forms of corporate and academic organisation, such as the insurance firm Lloyd's of London and Britain's Royal Society.

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The plaque is in King Street, St James, London and was erected by the Royal Society of Arts, who originally started what is now the English Heritage scheme.

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He was previously Head of the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London between 1999 and 2001, and has also served as Honorary Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers) (1995-1997).

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