From the picture source website: "... conceived on 12 January 1820 when 14 gentlemen sat down to dinner at the Freemason's Tavern, in Lincoln's Inn Fields .... the new Society was born on 10 March 1820 with the first meeting of the Council and the Society as a whole." Became the Royal Astronomical Society in 1831.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Astronomical Society
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William Wollaston - lost plaque
We 'discovered' this lost plaque while researching Sir Frederick Hopkins. Fr...
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John Heathcoat
Inventor and businessman. Born Derbyshire. Invented a machine for manufacturing a new type of lace, bobbin net, and went on to manufacture and sell lace. 1815 he bought a mill in Tiverton, moved th...
1 memorial
Dr Bob McGuiness
Managing Director of NPL 2000 - 2005.
1 memorial
John Desmond Bernal, MA, FRS.
Crystallographer. John Desmond Bernal was born on 10 May 1901 in Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland, the eldest of the five children of Samuel George Bernal (1864-1919) and Elizabeth Bernal née Mil...
1 memorial
Atlas Dyeworks
The Simpson, etc. plaque commemorates the Dyeworks which were at Victory Place 1859 - 68. This page refers to that site but also refers to the Hackney Dyeworks to which Atlas expanded. The photo sh...
2 memorials
Francis Baily
Astronomer. Most famous for his observations of "Baily's beads" during a total eclipse of the Sun. Baily was also a major figure in the early history of the Royal Astronomical Society, as one of th...
1 memorial
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