Astronomer. Trained as a barrister and also as a Church of England minister. But he inherited enough wealth that he instead was a practicing astronomer at Trinity College Cambridge. Publicly criticized Charles Babbage.
He had six children from a relationship with an Irish dancer. Was grandfather to Walter Sickert and Helena Swanwick.
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