What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Boyles School 1711-1945 Endowed by Robert Boyle F.R.S. 1627-1691 For 20 poor boys of Yetminster, Leigh and Chetnole Recorded plaque organisation: Hundred of Yetminster History Society.
Robert Boyle was a prominent 17th-century natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor, known for Boyle's Law which describes the inverse relationship between pressure and volume in gases; he is regarded as one of the founders of modern chemistry.
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