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Office-Holders in Modern Britain
… Middleship, J. 1831 27 June Middleship, S. Keeper of the Observatory at Kew 18231830 1823 5 Apr. Weaver, T. Attendants at the Observatory at Kew 1823? 1823 5 July Demainbray, S.G.F.T. 1823 5 July Rigaut, S.P. Chamber Keeper to the Observatory at Kew 1823? 1823 5 Apr. 1823 Stroud, J. …
Old and New London
… the czar frequently invited Flamsteed from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich to come over and dine with him, in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… high; it was built about 1758 by John Parrott, Esq., as an observatory, and is not unfrequently designated Parrott's …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… are also the monuments of Professor Playfair, near the Observatory, and of Dugald Stewart, overlooking the Regent's …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… he should observe it, for he hath divers servants in an observatory furnished with rare, huge and admirable …
Old and New London
… on the transit of Venus, in 1761; superintendence of the Observatory at Greenwich, 1765; observations of the transit …
Survey of London
… astronomer-royal, erected about 1739 an astronomical observatory at his residence at Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to the Philosophical Magazine. He had a private observatory at Woolwich, where he taught from 1799 to 1820, and in 1821 built an observatory incorporating a transit clock at the vicarage …
The Environs of London
… on the thermometer; an account of the Bramins' observatory at Benares, &c. Domestic Intelligencer, Jan. 13. …
The Environs of London
… of, 316. Nottingham , Charles Earl of, account of, 195. Observatory at Richmond, account of, 446. Oldham the poet, … of it, 443. The convents, 445. The Old-park, ibid. The observatory, 446. The gardens, 447. The hill, 454. The …