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Royal Greenwich Observatory (GBR/0180) 123

Archives and MSS Dept. (GBR/0012) 72

Royal Commonwealth Soc. (GBR/0115) 1

 

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Archival Object 596

Collection 5

 

Names

HMS Investigator, survey sloop (1801-1810) 52

Royal Navy 38

Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian) 29

Flinders, Matthew, 1774 - 1814 (naval officer and hydrographer) 20

Colonial Office 18

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Army 12

Conservative Party 12

Crosley, John, 1762 - 1817 (astronomer) 10

Flinders, Samuel Ward, 1782 - 1834 (naval officer) 9

Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732 - 1811 (astronomer and mathematician) 9

Royal Air Force 9

Earnshaw, Thomas, 1749 - 1829 (maker of watches and chronometers) 8

Inman, James, 1776 - 1859 (mathematician and writer on navigation) 8

Arnold, John, c1736 - 1799 (watch and chronometer maker) 7

Dawes, William, 1762 - 1836 (astronomer and colonial administrator) 7

Board of Trade 5

Foreign Office 4

HMS Providence, sloop (1791-1797) 4

Mount Stromlo Observatory, Australia 4

Sydney Observatory 4

Admiralty 3

Air Ministry 3

Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774 - 1857 (Knight, Rear Admiral and hydrographer) 3

Challis, James, 1803 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 3

Edward, VIII, 1894 - 1972 (King of Great Britain and Ireland, afterwards Duke of Windsor) 3

Miller, William Hallowes, 1801 - 1880 (mineralogist) 3

Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) 3

Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons and Co Ltd 3

Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819 - 1900 (astronomer) 3

Treasury 3

Australian National University 2

Baird, John Lawrence, 1874 - 1941 (1st Viscount Stonehaven, Governor-General of Australia) 2

Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743 - 1820 (Baronet, naturalist) 2

Bayly, William, 1737 - 1810 (astronomer) 2

Bond, George Phillips, 1825 - 1865 (astronomer) 2

Bruce, Stanley Melbourne, 1883 - 1967 (1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne, Prime Minister of Australia) 2

Carrington, Richard Christopher, 1826 - 1875 (astronomer) 2

Eggen, Olin Jeuck, 1919 - 1998 (astronomer) 2

Elmsley, Peter, 1736 - 1802 (bookseller) 2

Evans, Frederick John Owen, 1815 - 1885 (hydrographer) 2

Forbes, James David, 1809 - 1868 (natural philosopher) 2

Gill, David, Sir, 1843 - 1914 (Knight, astronomer) 2

Glaisher, James, 1809 - 1903 (astronomer) 2

HMS Porpoise, sloop (1799-1803) 2

HMS Sirius, merchantman (c 1780-1790) 2

HMS Slaney, post ship (1813-1838) 2

Hansen, Peter Andreas, 1795 - 1874 (astronomer) 2

Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) 2

Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer) 2

Huggins, William, Sir, 1824 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer) 2

Jones, Harold Spencer, Sir, 1890 - 1960 (Knight, astronomer) 2

Kendall, Larcum, 1719 - 1790 (watchmaker) 2

Maunder, Edward Walter, 1851 - 1928 (astronomer) 2

Mitchell, Charles, fl1806 - 1827 (Captain Royal Navy) 2

Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (1st Baronet, geologist) 2

Northcote, Henry Stafford, 1846 - 1911 (1st Baron Northcote, politician) 2

Oppolzer, Theodor Egon Ritter von, 1841 - 1886 (astronomer) 2

Parramatta Observatory, New South Wales 2

Phillip, Arthur, 1738 - 1814 (colonial governor and naval officer) 2

Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer) 2

Rolla, merchant ship (fl 1800-1803) 2

Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope 2

Royal Observatory, Greenwich 2

Rue, Warren De La, 1815 - 1889 (chemist and astronomer) 2

Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788 - 1883 (Knight, army officer and physicist) 2

Sadler, Donald Harry, 1908 - 1987 (astronomer) 2

Sheepshanks, Richard, 1794 - 1855 (astronomer) 2

Thatcher, Margaret Hilda, 1925 - 2013 (née Roberts, Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, Prime Minister) 2

The Times (Newspaper) (1785-Present) (London) 2

Turner, Herbert Hall, 1861 - 1930 (astronomer and seismologist) 2

Vancouver, George, 1758 - 1798 (explorer) 2

Varley, Cromwell Fleetwood, 1828 - 1883 (electrical engineer) 2

Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le, 1811 - 1877 (astronomer) 2

Whewell, William, 1794 - 1866 (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge) 2

Wrottesley, John, 1798 - 1867 (2nd Baron Wrottesley, landowner and astronomer) 2

Académie Royale des Sciences 1

Adams, John Couch, 1819-1892 (astronomer) 1

Adams, John Franklin, 1843 - 1912 (astronomer) 1

Adelaide Observatory 1

Airy, George Biddell, Sir, 1801 - 1892 (Knight, astronomer) 1

Amy, Dennis Oldrieve, 1932-2016 (diplomat) 1

Anglo-Australian Telescope Board 1

Arequipa Observatory, Peru 1

Armagh Observatory 1

Arnold, Christoph, 1650 - 1695 (farmer and astronomer) 1

Atkinson, Robert d'Escourt, 1898 - 1982 (astronomer, physicist and inventor) 1

Auwers, Arthur Julius Georg Friedrich von, 1838 - 1915 (astronomer) 1

Babia Góra Observatory 1

Bank of New South Wales 1

Barder, Brian Leon, Sir, 1934-2017 (Knight, diplomat) 1

Barrow, John, Sir, 1764 - 1848 (1st Baronet, Secretary of the Admiralty) 1

Basire, James, 1730 - 1802 (engraver) 1

Beetham, Roger Campbell, 1937-2009 (diplomat) 1

Benson, Stella, 1892-1933 (writer) 1

Binnie, David Carr, fl. 1873 (traveller) 1

Biot, Jean (Baptiste (1774-1862) physicist) 1

Blair, Robert, 1748 - 1828 (surgeon and maker of optical instruments) 1

Bligh, William, 1754 - 1817 (Vice Admiral) 1

Board of Longitude 1

Bok, Bart Jan, 1906 - 1983 (astronomer) 1

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