Arthur Stanley Eddington, John Dalton, and Arthur Henry Eddington green plaque

This green commemorative plaque records: Stramongate School. This school, founded by the Society of Friends in 1698, occupied premises beyond this passageway from 1792 to 1932. It has connections with two famous scientists: John Dalton founder of the Atomic Theory and "father of modern chemistry", who taught here from 1781- to 1793 and Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, pioneer of stellar structure, author of "The Expanding Universe", former Chief Assistant at Greenwich Observatory, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, who was born here in 1882, his father then being the Headmaster. Recorded plaque organisation: Kendal Civic Society.

John Dalton taught at Stramongate School from 1781 to 1793 and is renowned as the founder of atomic theory and the "father of modern chemistry." Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, born in this school in 1882, was a pioneering astrophysicist known for his work on stellar structure and his confirmation of Einstein's theory of relativity.