Thomas Catton

(1758-1838)

NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Catton Thomas (1760-1838) Astronomer DNB: Catton, Thomas (bap. 1758, d. 1838), astronomer LBT ID: ThCatto1838 VIAF ID: 47545198	B/BAP: 1758-07-30 DIED: 1838-01-06
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File
Educated at St John's College, Cambridge, he was an astronomer and rector of North Ockenden, Essex (1807-17). He tutored Henry Kirke White at Cambridge.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Catton: Herbert Knowles to Robert Southey, 28 December 1816 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ n1 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXI. 1816 Found 1: ¶ n1