Sir George Biddell Airy

(1801-1892)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Airy, George Biddell, Sir, 1801-1892 NRA: Airy Sir George Biddell (1801-1892) Knight astronomer and mathematician DNB: Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801–1892), astronomer LBT ID: GeAiry1892 VIAF ID: 24591712 LOC ID: n80138214	B/BAP: 1801-07-27 DIED: 1892-01-02
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Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was afterwards professor of mathematics and professor of astronomy. He was appointed Astronomer Royal in 1835.
REFERENCES TO Sir George Biddell Airy: Sydney Smith to John Archibald Murray, 21 November 1832 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Verse 1: p. 342a Sir Robert Peel to Robert Southey, 4 April 1835 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXXVI. 1834-1836 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1832 Verse 1: p. 342a Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter X Found 1: ¶ 9