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English astronomer
John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley
FRS
FRAS
(5 August 1798 ? 27 October 1867) was an
English
astronomer
.
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Life
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Wrottesley was the son of
John Wrottesley, 1st Baron Wrottesley
, and his first wife Lady Caroline Bennet, daughter of
Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville
. He attended Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with a First Class degree in Mathematics in 1819. He succeeded his father as baron on 16 March 1841.
Wrottesley is distinguished for his attainments in astronomical science, was a founding member of the
Royal Astronomical Society
and served as its president from 1841 to 1842. In 1839 he received the
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
for his
Catalogue of the Right Ascensions of 1,318 Stars
. In 1853 he called the attention of the House of Lords to
Lieutenant Maury
's valuable scheme of meteorological observations and discoveries, and on 30 November 1855 succeeded the Earl of Rosse as
President of the Royal Society
.
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Wrottesley was President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1860, the year of the famous debate between Wilberforce and Huxley at the Association's Oxford meeting.
The crater
Wrottesley
on the
Moon
is named in honour of John Wrottesley.
Lord Wrottesley died in October 1867, aged 69.
Family
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On 28 July 1821 Wrottesley married Sophia Elizabeth (d. 13 January 1880), third daughter of Thomas Giffard of Chillington in Staffordshire. By her he had five sons and two daughters. His two youngest sons?Henry and Cameron?were killed in warfare. He was succeeded in the baronetcy and barony by his eldest son
Arthur Wrottesley
.
[4]
George Wrottesley
was his third son.
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See also
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References
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- ^
Armitage, J. (2006). "Lord John, 2nd Baron Wrottesley and the Wrottesley Hall Observatory".
The Antiquarian Astronomer
.
3
.
Society for the History of Astronomy
: 5?10.
Bibcode
:
2006AntAs...3....5A
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"John, Second Baron Wrottesley"
.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
.
28
(4).
Royal Astronomical Society
: 64?68. 1868
. Retrieved
18 November
2015
.
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Men of the Time, Biographical Sketches of Eminent Living Characters
; London: David Bogue, Fleet Street. (1856) p.793
- ^
Lee, Sidney
, ed. (1900).
"Wrottesley, John"
.
Dictionary of National Biography
. Vol. 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^
Lee, Sidney
, ed. (1912).
"Wrottesley, George"
.
Dictionary of National Biography
(2nd supplement)
. Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
External links
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- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain
:
Lee, Sidney
, ed. (1900). "
Wrottesley, John
".
Dictionary of National Biography
. Vol. 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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