| Authorised form of name | Lax; William (1761 - 1836) |
| Dates | 1761 - 1836 |
| Date of birth | 1761 |
| Place of death | His house at St Ippolyts, Hertfordshire |
| Date of death | 29 October 1836 |
| Occupation | Clergyman, Church of England |
| Research field | Astronomy |
| Activity | Education:
Trinity College, Cambridge. BA (1785, Senior Wrangler); MA (1788)
Career:
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; Lowndes Professor of Astronomy and geometry, Cambridge University (1795); presented to the livings of Marsworth, Buckinghamshire, and of St Ippolyts, Hertfordshire; built an observatory at St Ippolyts
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 05/05/1796 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1836 No 27 p 438 |
| Code | NA2998 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1796/05 | Lax, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| L&P/12/76 | Paper, 'On a supposed error in the elements of euclid' by William Lax | 1804 |
| L&P/11/84 | Paper, 'Method of finding the latitude of a place by two altitudes of the sun and the time between the two observations' by William Lax | 1798 |
| PT/3/15 | Paper, 'On a method of examining the division of astronomical instruments' by Reverend Wm [William] Lax in a letter to Reverend Dr [Nevil] Maskelyne | 27 August 1808 |