John Wrottesley
1798 - 1867
- Born
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04 October 1798
Wrottesley Hall, Staffordshire, England
- Died
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27 October 1867
Wrottesley Hall, Staffordshire
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 29/04/1841
- Fields of Interest
- Astronomy
- Occupation
- Barrister
- Relationships
- Son of John Wrottesley, 1st Baron Wrottesley, and his first wife Lady Caroline Benet, daughter of Charles, 4th Earl of Tankerville; succeeded as 2nd Baron (1841); married Sophia Elizabeth Giffard
- Catalogue
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Author of
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Referee's report by William Henry Smyth, on a paper 'On the results of periodical observations of the positions and distances of nineteen of the stars in Sir John Herschel’s lists of stars, favourably situated for the investigation of parallax, contained in part III. of the Philosophical Transactions for 1826, and part I. 1827' by John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley
Creator: William Henry Smyth Reference number: RR/2/259
Recipient of
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Copies of Sir John Herschel's and Margaret Brodie Herschel letters to Lord [John] Wrottesley FRS, from 25 March 1855 to 31 May 1866
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel, Margaret Herschel Reference number: HS/25/12 -
Copy letter, from Margaret Brodie Herschel to John Wrottesley , dated at Collingwood
Creator: Margaret Herschel Reference number: HS/25/12/1 -
Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to John Wrottesley, dated at Collingwood
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/25/12/2 -
Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to John Wrottesley, dated at Collingwood
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/25/12/3 -
Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to John Wrottesley, dated at Collingwood
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/25/12/4 -
Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to John Wrottesley, dated at Collingwood
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/25/12/5
Most frequently corresponded with
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John Frederick William Herschel
18 letters -
Margaret Herschel
2 letters