John Pond

(1767-1836)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Pond, John, 1767-1836 NRA: Pond John (1767-1836) Astronomer DNB: Pond, John (bap. 1767, d. 1836), astronomer LBT ID: JoPond1836 VIAF ID: 27817400 LOC ID: nr2003019439	B/BAP: 1767-11-18 DIED: 1836-09-07
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English astronomer educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; he was appointed astronomer royal at Greenwich in 1811.
REFERENCES TO John Pond: John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 14 June 1814 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 1 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter II: 1814