Congratulations if you recognised the right leg of #WilliamGilberd the #FatherOfElectricitAndMagnetism as represented on his statue on the front of # #Colchester's Grade One listed Town Hall.

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#OnThisDay - 30 November 1603 #WilliamGilberd died of the plague

Born at Tymperleys in Trinity Street, he is known as the father of electricity and magnetism.

He is commemorated in and believed by some to be buried in, #HolyTrinityChurch.

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