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    of the third baronet on 15 June 1950. Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet (1792–1871) Sir William James Herschel, 2nd Baronet (1833–1917)...
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  • amusement park rides Herschel–Bulkley fluid, a generalized model of a non-Newtonian fluid Herschel baronets, of the United Kingdom Herschel Girls' School, a...
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    Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet KH FRS (/ˈhɜːrʃəl, ˈhɛər-/; 7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871) was an English polymath active as a mathematician...
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    Sir William James Herschel, 2nd Baronet (9 January 1833 – 24 October 1917) was a British ICS officer in India who used fingerprints for identification...
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    Margaret, Lady Herschel (née Brodie Stewart; 1810–1884) was a British botanical artist and hostess. While she was in Cape Colony, she and her husband made...
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  • also refer to: Sir William Herschel, 2nd Baronet (1833–1917), British officer William Herschel Telescope William Herschel Museum This disambiguation page...
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  • astronomer. He was the son of Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet, and grandson of William Herschel. Herschel was born in Claremont, a suburb of Cape Town in the...
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  • astronomical work. His older brother was Sir William Herschel, 2nd Baronet, and his younger brother John Herschel the Younger was born in 1837. The family left...
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    Humphry Davy (redirect from Davy baronets)
    Network" of outstanding mathematicians such as Charles Babbage and John Herschel, who tried to block Davy. They were aware that Davy supported some modernisation...
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    patron of science in Australia, and as such was eulogised by Sir John Herschel when he presented Brisbane with the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical...
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    An early set of finger- and handprints by Sir William Herschel, 2nd Baronet (1833–1917)...
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    often came with appointments to that foreign order (though Herschel was later created a baronet). Babbage now emerged as a polemicist. One of his biographers...
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    identification for forty years, having been introduced by Sir William Herschel, but it was not used by the police and there was no system of simple sorting...
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    Mallorytown, Ontario are named for him as well. Leigh Rayment's list of baronets Other sources give 1732: Scadding, Henry (January 1878). "Yonge Street...
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    Sir Thomas Aylesbury, 1st Baronet (1576 – 1657) was an English civil servant, Surveyor of the Navy from 1628 and jointly Master of the Mint from 1635...
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    occurrence which could rarely be observed. The leading man of science Sir John Herschel wrote from Cape Town on 20 February 1836, thanking Lyell for sending a...
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    of Thurlow (see Soame baronets). The ninth Baronet was a member of the Shropshire County Council. Sir John Buckworth, 1st Baronet (1662–1709) Sir John...
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  • Austin, 1st Baron Austin; MP for Birmingham King's Norton (1918–1924) Herschel Lewis Austin, Stretford, 1945–50 Ian Austin, Baron Austin (2005-2019) Sir...
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  • Buckton (18 January 1896 – 17 January 1978), known as Sir Samuel Storey, 1st Baronet, from 1960 to 1966, was a British Conservative politician. Storey was the...
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    Henry Thomas Colebrooke (category Younger sons of baronets)
    the absence of the first president, William Herschel, and was elected as its second president on Herschel's death, serving 1823–1825. In 1823 he was also...
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  • Mary, daughter of Margaret and Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet and grand daughter of astronomer William Herschel, in 1852. They had five sons and four daughters...
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    manuscripts, some in Hebrew. In 1838, he introduced in a meeting scientist John Herschel, and the Duke gave a speech in which he spoke about the compatibility of...
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  • a precursor of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, together with John Herschel, George Peacock and Charles Babbage, with whom he maintained a close and...
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    Sketch of Dumbleton Hall by Benjamin Herschel Babbage (1873)...
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  • sexually violated the dead bodies of his victims. According to criminologist Herschel Prins, it was said that until the 19th century, if a betrothed girl in...
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    Solicitor General for Scotland, James Wedderburn (1782–1822) of the Wedderburn baronets. He studied at the High School in Edinburgh and then went to the University...
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    with the work of Jan Evangelista Purkyně. By 1858, Sir William Herschel, 2nd Baronet, while in India, became the first European to realize the value...
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  • Gladstone 1845–1846 Sir George Clerk, 6th Baronet 1846–1850 Richard Lalor Sheil 1850–1855 Sir John Herschel 1855–1869 Thomas Graham 1870– Office amalgamated...
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    Fornasini Benjamin Franklin Goldsworthy Gurney Oliver Heaviside Caroline Herschel Robert Kraichnan George Frederick Kunz Antoine Lavoisier Alfred Lee Loomis...
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    Stewart of Daldon, d. 1333 Robert Stewart of Daldowie, Steuart baronets and Seton-Steuart baronets Hugh Stewart Robert Stewart John Stewart, d. 1249 Walter...
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