Silver inkstand inscribed with 11 family names in December 1906 The surname 'Lemon' is not especially rare, but it is uncommon enough to make genealogy travels very interesting - several heroes and villains alike - who were all probably cousins at some point on a timeline of Lemons, Lemans, Lemmons and similar variations going back a few hundred years. The name 'Kent-Lemon' however is very rare - though that is not surprising when you realize it is only 120 years old this yea

One of my Victorian heroes is Charles Darwin. Experts may disagree but I think the most important letter written to Darwin by a fellow naturalist was from Alfred Russel Wallace in the Spring of 1858. In it he wrote his essay “On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type “. This ‘threat’ to the originality of Darwin’s own big theory motivated him at last to finish and publish On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859, after ye

When I visit London, I always try to walk in the footsteps of my Victorian ancestors and around their old haunts. The name of one of them, my gg grandfather ‘William George Lemon’ (1830-1897), can be written anagram-style as ‘Glowing mile, more ale’. One wet, dark evening in 2015 my daughter and I walked the mile (well, a kilometer actually) from Victoria station to enjoy the wine and ale of a small but haunted public house named 'The Grenadier' in Belgravia. The rain-spla

Probably the highest view over London WGL ever experienced was from the Monument in the City, a mere 202 feet (62m) above the street. While other structures were taller (Big Ben’s tower at 315 feet and St. Paul’s dome at 365 feet) a few hundred feet of steps was the most a Victorian Londoner could expect to climb to get a view of the greatest metropolis in the world. In 1862 however, one of WGL’s friends became the highest man in human history, reaching through the clouds abo

Sir John Lubbock (1834-1913), aristocrat, banker, politician and gentleman-scientist, was a towering figure of Victorian England who reshaped science, archaeology and even the social calendar. He was a household name by the 1870s and author of popular science books. As a young neighbour and friend to Charles Darwin he was an early and influential champion of evolutionary theory and dubbed ‘Darwin’s Apprentice’. At some point in the late 1850s or early 60s WGL first met J

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