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Authorised form of nameFox; Robert Were (1789 - 1877); geologist and physicist
Dates1789 - 1877
NationalityBritish
Place of birthFalmouth, Cornwall, England
Date of birth26 April 1789
Place of deathHis house, Penjerrick, near Falmouth, Cornwall
Date of death25 July 1877
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Society of Friends' burial-ground at Budock, Cornwall
ActivityEducation:
At home
Career:
Enter his father's counting house; countinued his own private study, being influenced by the work of Humphry Davy (FRS 1803) and John Dalton (FRS 1822); researched high-pressure steam and the temperature of mines; his work on geology and magnetism led to the improvement of the dipping needle, allowing more accurate observations at sea
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election09/06/1848
RelationshipsSon of Robert Weare Fox , shipping agent and Quaker, and his wife Elizabeth daughter of Joseph Tregalles of Falmouth; married (1814) Maria, daughter of Robert Barclay of Bury Hill, Surrey; three children
PublishedWorks'On the Temperature of Mines' in 'Annals of Philosophy' 1822; 'Alloys of Platinum' in 'Annals of Philosophy' 1819;
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DQB
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/22921193
CodeNA6084
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
MS/710/38Extract of a letter from Robert Were Fox to John Phillips, York 9 April 1836
IM/Maull/001528Fox, Robert Werend
MS/710/37Letter from Robert Were Fox, Falmouth, to Davies Gilbert MP, Bridge Street, Westminster1 March 1831
MS/710/39Letter from Robert Were Fox to Robert Hunt26 December 1840
MS/710/40Letter from Robert Were Fox, Falmouth, to Thomas Bell, Secretary of the Royal Society, Somerset House, London19 December 1849
MS/710/36Letter from Robert Were Fox, Falmouth, to Davies Giddy [Gilbert], London2 May 1807
MS/119/1/36Dip observations in Scotland and England by Mr Robert Were Fox1837
MS/257/2/197Letter from Robert Were Fox, Falmouth to [Edward Sabine]9 March 1850
MS/710/126Letter from Edward Solly; 32 Marlborough Buildings, Bath; to Robert Were Fox; Falmouth30 July 1848
EC/1848/07Fox, Robert Were: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/257/2/193Letter from Robert Were Fox, Falmouth to Edward Sabine12 September 1846
MS/710/41Notes on instruments by Robert Were Foxnd
MC/1/252Letter from Robert Were Fox, Falmouth, to Dr. Peter Mark Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society 29 July 1830
MS/257/2/192Letter from Robert Were Fox, Falmouth to [James Clark Ross]20 August 1846
IM/001529Fox, Robert Were1988
MS/710Letters to Robert Were Fox and to other members of the Fox family 1801-1873
MC/1Volume 1 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1800-1831
MS/257/2/185Letter from Robert Were Fox, Falmouth to [Francis] Beaufort[15 June 1839]
MS/257/2/191Letter from Robert Were Fox, Falmouth to [James Clark Ross]22 March 1845
RR/1/73Referee's report by Samuel Hunter Christie, on a paper 'On certain irregularities in the magnetic needle, produced by partial warmth, and the relations which appear to subsist between terrestrial magnetism and the geological structure and thermo-electrical currents of the earth' by Robert Were Fox27 June 1832
MS/257/2/196Letter from Robert Were Fox, Falmouth to [Edward Sabine]28 October 1848
MS/257/2/187Letter from Robert Were Fox, Falmouth to [James Clark] Ross18 June 1839
MS/257/2/189Letter from Robert Were Fox, Falmouth to [James Clark Ross]10 April 1840
MS/257/2/190Letter from Robert Were Fox, Falmouth to [James Clark Ross]8 March 1845
MS/257/2/195Letter from Robert Were Fox, Falmouth to [Edward Sabine]26 February 1848
MS/257/2/188Letter from Robert Were Fox, Falmouth to [James Clark Ross]15 July 1839
MS/257/2/194Letter from Robert Were Fox, Falmouth to [Edward Sabine]28 December 1847
AP/15/20Unpublished paper, 'On certain irregularities in the magnetic needle produced by partial warmth, and the relations which appear to subsist between terrestrial magnetism and the geological structure, and thermo-electrical currents of the earth' by Robert Were Fox[1832]
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