What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: William Buckland 1784-1856, geologist, Dean of Westminster Recorded plaque organisation: Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board, Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
William Buckland was a prominent British geologist and paleontologist who made significant contributions to the understanding of fossil records and geological history; he also served as the Dean of Westminster from 1845 until his death in 1856.
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