| Authorised form of name | Varley; Cromwell Fleetwood (1828 - 1883) |
| Dates | 1828 - 1883 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Kentish Town, London, England |
| Date of birth | 06 April 1828 |
| Place of death | Cromwell House, Bexley Heath, Kent |
| Date of death | 02 September 1883 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Bexley, Kent |
| Occupation | Civil engineer |
| Activity | Career:
Consulting Electrician to the Electric and International Telegraph Company (1846-1868), to the Atlantic Telegraph Company, and to la Socit du Cable Transatlantique France; consultant to the laying of the second Atlantic cable
Memberships:
MICE
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 08/06/1871 |
| Relationships | Son of Cornelius Varley, watercolourist, and his wife Elizabeth Straker; named after his ancestors Oliver Cromwell and General Charles Fleetwood, Parliamentarian.
Married: 1) divorced by his wife; 2) Jesse, daughter of Charles Smith of Forres |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
John Varley Jeffery, 'The Varley Family: Engineers and Artists' in NR 1997 vol 51 pp 263-279
R Noakes, 'Cromwell Varley FRS, electrical discharge and Victorian spiritualism' in NR 2007 vol 61 pp 5-21 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/52473291 |
| Code | NA8021 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| RR/7/142 | Referee's report by Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin, on a paper 'Polarization of metallic surfaces in aqueous solutions. On a new method of obtaining electricity from mechanical force, and certain relations between electrostatic induction and the decomposition of water' by Cromwell Fleetwood Varley | 21 February 1871 |
| MS/427/27 | Copy letter from Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Cromwell Fleetwood] Varley Esq. | 21 January 1880 |
| EC/1871/13 | Varley, Cromwell Fleetwood: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MC/9/204 | Letter from C F [Cromwell Fleetwood] Varley, 1 & 2 Great Winchester Street Buildings, London, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society | 17 May 1871 |
| MC/9/182 | Letter from William Thomson, Glasgow College, to Sir Edward [Sabine], [President of the Royal Society] | 23 March 1871 |
| MC/9 | Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1870-June 1873 |
| AP/44/16/2 | Unpublished diagrams, submarine cables by [Cromwell Fleetwood] Varley | 1862 |
| AP/44/16 | Unpublished paper, 'On the relative speed of the electric wave through submarine cables of different lengths; and a unit of speed for comparing electric cables' by C F [Cromwell Fleetwood] Varley | 1862 |
| AP/44/16/1 | Unpublished manuscript, 'On the relative speed of the electric wave through submarine cables of different lengths; and a unit of speed for comparing electric cables' by C F [Cromwell Fleetwood] Varley | 1862 |
| RR/5/277 | Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'On the relative speed of the electric wave through submarine cables of different lengths, and a unit of speed for comparing electric cables by bisecting the electric wave' by Cromwell Fleetwood Varley | 16 June 1863 |
| RR/7/141 | Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'Polarization of metallic surfaces in aqueous solutions. On a new method of obtaining electricity from mechanical force, and certain relations between electrostatic induction and the decomposition of water' by Cromwell Fleetwood Varley | 5 January 1871 |