May The Force Be With You!

This cheerful chap is set above the doorway to what was the London home of Sir Francis Beaufort.
These days he is remembered as the creator of the Beaufort scale of wind force, but I knew nothing else about him, so I looked him up. Interesting character!
He was just 15 years old when he was shipwrecked due to an inaccurate chart. This led to his interest in hydrography.
During the Napoleonic wars he was aboard the HMS Aquilion, during the battle of the Glorious 1st of June, when it exchanged broadsides with the French ship Impetueux.
After being wounded aboard HMS Phaeton in 1800, he helped his brother construct telegraphs from Dublin to Galway.
After he returned to the Navy he began surveying & charting, becoming British Admiralty Hydrographer in 1829, & remained in the post for 25 years. Some of his charts are still in use!
He trained Robert Fitzroy, Commander of the HMS Beagle, & was involved in the invitation to Charles Darwin to sail with Fitzroy. The voyage was the first time the Beaufort scale was officially used.
He also invented the Beaufort cipher, which he used to write his journals.
He was knighted in 1846, & died in 1857.