Stephen Peter Rigaud
1774 - 1839
- Born
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12 August 1774
Richmond, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
- Died
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16 March 1839
The house of his old friend, Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, Pall Mall, London
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 13/06/1805
- Age at the time of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 30
- Occupation
- Astronomer; Mathematician
- Relationships
- Son of Stephen Rigaud observer at the Kew Observatory and Mary nee Demainbray; married (1815) Christian Walker Jordan, daughter of Gibbes Walker Jordan (FRS 1800) colonial agent of Barbados
- Catalogue
- View catalogue entry
- Wikipedia
- View wikipedia entry
Author of
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Paper, 'An account of Mr [Joseph] Finney's method of compensating for the effects of heat and cold on the length of pendulums' by S [Stephen] P [Peter] Rigaud
Creator: Stephen Peter Rigaud Reference number: PT/2/9
Recipient of
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Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Stephen Peter Rigaud, dated at Leamington, Warwick
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/21/44 -
Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Stephen Peter Rigaud, dated at Slough
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/21/101 -
Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Stephen Peter Rigaud, dated at Slough
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/25/2/2 -
Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Stephen Peter Rigaud, dated at Slough
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/25/2/14
Most frequently corresponded with
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John Frederick William Herschel
15 letters