Buckton, Christopher, fl1792 - 1807 (printer)
Person
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
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Account with Christopher Buckton, 1786 - 1799
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/17: 117-168
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Papers regarding payments for work done on behalf of the Board.
Dates:
1786 - 1799
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Confirmed minutes, 1780 - 1801
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/6
Scope and Contents
Minutes of Board of Longitude meetings regarding, among other matters, the rates of various chronometers; Charles Hutton's tables of products, powers and roots of natural numbers; the voyages of HMS 'Resolution' and HMS 'Discovery' and the examination of their log books; John Arnold's improvements to his watches; a suitable site for the Board of Longitude's instruments after the burning of the cupola of the Greenwich Hospital where they had been kept; improvements to reflecting telescopes;...
Dates:
1780 - 1801
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Diary of payments by the Board of Longitude for outstanding bills, 1799 - 1810
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 4/324: 20v-21r
Scope and Contents
From the File:
A diary of work performed on the 'Nautical Almanac' and arrangements for its compilation and publication.
Dates:
1799 - 1810
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Diary of publications sent to Mr Buckton to print, 1793 - 1807
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 4/324: 15v-16v
Scope and Contents
From the File:
A diary of work performed on the 'Nautical Almanac' and arrangements for its compilation and publication.
Dates:
1793 - 1807
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Orders and memoranda for paper and the sending of copies of the 'Nautical Almanac', 1790 - 1804
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 4/324: 2r-3v
Scope and Contents
From the File:
A diary of work performed on the 'Nautical Almanac' and arrangements for its compilation and publication.
Dates:
1790 - 1804
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Papers relating to Christopher Buckton, printer, and his bankruptcy, 1794 - 1799
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/15: 48-62
Scope and Contents
From the File:
The accounts of printers and publishers for Board of Longitude publications, with related papers.
Dates:
1794 - 1799
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Printing and distribution of the Nautical Almanac, 1797 - 1824
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/22: 30-62
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The first part of collection is comprised of papers concerning the internal affairs of the Board of Longitude, including the granting of awards, accounts, minutes, committee papers, petitions and memorials, the loan of instruments, publications and the payment of staff. These are followed by a wide range of papers relating to the Board's work, concerning clocks, chronometers and other instruments; longitude and latitude; magnetic variation; schemes and inventions; tables; pendulum...
Dates:
1797 - 1824
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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