| Authorised form of name | Osler; Abraham Follett (1808 - 1903); meteorologist |
| Dates | 1808 - 1903 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 22 March 1808 |
| Place of death | South Bank, Edgbaston, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 26 April 1903 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Key Hill Cemetery, Hockley, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. |
| Occupation | Manufacturer |
| Research field | Meteorology |
| Activity | Education:
Hazelwood School (1816-1824)
Career:
Joined his father's glass manufacturing fim (1824); took over the firm's management (1831); developed the first self-recording pressure-plate anemometer and rain-gauge, and installed it at the BPI's premises in Cannon Street, Birmingham (1835); his anemometer was installed at Greenwich observatory, London's Royal Exchange, Plymouth, Inverness, and Liverpool observatory (1841).
Memberships:
Birmingham Philosophical Institution (BPI)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 07/06/1855 |
| Age at election | 47 |
| Proposer | Edward William Brayley |
| Richard Sheepshanks |
| George Biddell Airy |
| Thomas Webster |
| Richard Partridge |
| William Allen Miller |
| William Bowman |
| Robert Walker |
| Charles Daubeny |
| John Phillips |
| Archibald John Stephens |
| Michael Faraday |
| Relationships | Parents: Thomas Osler, glass manufacturer of Birmingham, and Fanny Follett.
Spouse: (m. 1832) Mary, daughter of Thomas Clark, Birmingham merchant and manufacturer.
Children: Eight of whom three survived him.
Son-in-law: William James Russell (FRS 1872). |
| OtherInfo | Inventor or improver of Apparatus for measuring and registering in Time, the Direction Intensity and Velocity of Wind and other elements of Local Climate.
Distinguished for his acquaintance with the science of Meteorology.
Eminent as a Mechanician & Cultivator of Physical Science. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 328-334 signed by W J R
References:
R Robson and Walter F Cannon, 'William Whewell, FRS (1794-1866)' in NR 1964 vol 19 pp 168-191 |
| Code | NA3715 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1855/09 | Osler, Abraham Follett: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| HS/13/201 | Letter, from Abraham Follett Osler to Sir John Herschel, dated at Birmingham | 20 August 1838 |
| HS/13/202 | Letter, from Abraham Follett Osler to Sir John Herschel, dated at Birmingham | 20 September 1839 |