At the rear of Burlington House in Picadilly, London are a number of statues of great scientists and philosophers including humanists Jeremy Bentham (over the door, by John Durham), Adam Smith (ground floor west side, by William Theed) and David Hume (above, western balustrade, by Matthew Noble).
Burlington House was originally a private mansion in the Palladian style, [...]
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Henry Hethrington and Robert Owen are buried here.
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Philosopher Jeremy Bentham lived for forty years in a house on the site now occupied by the Ministry of Justice (102 Petty France).
The house, in what came to be called Queen’s Square Place, was bequeathed to Bentham by his father Jeremiah on his death in 1792. Jeremiah had first rented the house in May 1763 [...]
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Imperial College, London features a bust of T.H. Huxley.
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In Newdigate Square, Nuneaton is a statue of novelist George Eliot made by John Letts in 1986, on a commission by the George Eliot Fellowship.
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This is the resting place of philosopher David Hume who died in 1776.
Hume prescribed this “simple Roman tomb” which stands, as he wished it, on the Eastern slope of the Calton Hill overlooking his home in the New Town of Edinburgh at No. 1 St. David Street.
Hume also wrote his own epitaph: “Born 1711, Died [—]. [...]
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