What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: John Phillips FRS 1800-1874 Geologist Yorkshire Philosophical Officer and first keeper of the Yorkshire Museum Lived here between 1839 and 1853 Recorded plaque organisation: Yorkshire Philosophical Society, York Museums Trust, York Civic Trust.
John Phillips was a prominent British geologist and paleontologist who served as the first Keeper of the Yorkshire Museum; he significantly contributed to the fields of stratigraphy and paleontology.
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