Edmund Halley brown plaque

This brown commemorative plaque records: Edmund Halley Savilian Professor of Geometry 1703–1742 lived and had his observatory in this house

Edmund Halley was an astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet. As Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford, he contributed significantly to the fields of astronomy and mathematics.