| Authorised form of name | Six; James (1730 - 1793) |
| Dates | 1730 - 1793 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Canterbury, Kent, England |
| Date of birth | 30 January 1730 |
| Place of death | Canterbury, Kent |
| Date of death | 25 August 1793 |
| Research field | Astronomy |
| Electricity |
| Activity | Career:
Began in the family's silk business; invented the maximum and minimum thermometer which bears his names; also was a florist and philanthropist
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 19/01/1792 |
| Relationships | Belonged to a French refugee family which settled in Canterbury in Elizabethan times, fleeing Portestant persecution; established the silk trade there |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB (MP)
References:
Jillian F Austin and Anita McConnell, 'James Six, FRS - Two Hundred Years of the Six Self-Registering Thermometer' in NR 1980 vol 35 pp 49-65 |
| Code | NA5529 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1791/26 | Six, James: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| L&P/7/240 | Paper, 'Of an improved thermometer' by James Six | 10 February 1782 |
| NLB/37/558 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Major P [Percy Alexander] MacMahon, Fellow of the Royal Society | 6 April 1908 |
| L&P/8/89 | Letter, 'Variation of local heat as determined by a special thermometer' from James Six to Francis Wollaston | 10 March 1784 |
| L&P/7/240/1 | Letter, 'Of an improved thermometer' from James Six to unknown recipient | 10 February 1782 |
| L&P/7/240/2 | Plate, 'Thermometer and associated graph' by James Six | 1782 |
| L&P/9/72 | Letter, 'Experiments on local heat' from James Six to Francis Wollaston | 1788 |