Sir John Herschel, first baronet

(1792-1871)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), Sir, 1792-1871 NRA: Herschel Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) 1st Baronet astronomer DNB: Herschel, Sir John Frederick William, first baronet (1792-1871), mathematician and astronomer LBT ID: JoHersc1871 VIAF ID: 9887999 LOC ID: n50036903	B/BAP: 1792-03-07 DIED: 1871-05-11
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English astronomer, the son of William Herschel; he was secretary to the Royal Society (1827-30).
REFERENCES TO Sir John Herschel, first baronet: Joanna Baillie to Samuel Rogers, 2 February [1832] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Gibson Lockhart to Henry Hart Milman, 1 July 1832 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 1 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Lady Blessington II Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a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) Prelude 2 Found 1: ¶ 11 Chapter IX Found 1: ¶ 28 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter XXIII. 1840-52. Found 1: ¶ 4 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter II. 1831-34. Chapter IX. 1851. Found 1: ¶ 11 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 5 Chap. XXXIII. Found 1: ¶ 22 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 16: 1832-36