| Authorised form of name | Wales; William (c 1734 - 1798) |
| Dates | c 1734 - 1798 |
| Date of birth | c. 1734 |
| Place of death | London |
| Date of death | 29 December 1798 |
| Activity | Career:
Sent by the Royal Society to Prince of Wales' Fort, Hudson Bay; sent by the Board of Longitude to accompany Captain Cook; Mathematical master, Christ's Hospital (until 1798)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 07/11/1776 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
G E R Deacon and Margaret Deacon, 'Captain Cook as a Navigator' in NR 1969 vol 24 pp 33-42
L B Glyn, 'Israel Lyons: a short but starry career. The life of an eighteenth-century Jewish botanist and astronomer' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 275-305
M Croarken, 'Astronomical labourers: Maskelyne's assistants at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1765 - 1811' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 285 - 298 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/79174737 |
| Code | NA5931 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| MS/391/177 | Bond of William Wales to the Treasurer of the Royal Society | 14 November 1776 |
| L&P/5/162 | Paper, 'The weather at Prince of Wales Fort, Hudson Bay 1768-9' by J Dymond and William Wales | 1769 |
| L&P/7/61 | Paper, 'The solar sclipse of 24 June' by William Wales | 24 June 1778 |
| L&P/7/238 | Paper, 'That Captain Cook sought for Cape Curcumcision under the proper meridian' by William Wales | 1782 |
| EC/1776/18 | Wales, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MM/7/25 | Letter from William Wales, Christ's Hospital, to Jesse Ramsden | 16 March 1781 |
| MM/8/12 | Letter from William Wales, Christ's Hospital, to Sir Joseph Banks | 10 December 1798 |
| MM/20/54 | Specimen census returns by William Wales | 17 May 1781 |
| L&P/5/124 | Paper, 'Astronomical observations made for the Royal Society at Prince of Wales Fort, on the north west coast of Hudson Bay' by William Wales and Joseph Dymond | 1769 |
| L&P/9/104/1 | Letter, 'Description of an improvement in the application of the quadrant of altitude to a celestial globe, for the resolution of problems dependent on azimuth and altitude' from John Smeaton to William Wales | 19 November 1788 |
| AP/7/18 | Unpublished letter, regarding Charles Wildbore's paper from Wm [William Wales] to Sir Joseph Banks | 15 March 1787 |
| AP/7/21 | Unpublished letter, regarding Wildbore's paper from [Charles] Wildbore to Sir Joseph Banks | 16 June 1787 |
| L&P/7/212 | Paper, 'Hints of the use of tables of natural and logarithmic lines, tangents and in the numerical resolution of adfected equations' by William Wales | 1781 |