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Authorised form of nameLax; William (1761 - 1836)
Dates1761 - 1836
Date of birth1761
Place of deathHis house at St Ippolyts, Hertfordshire
Date of death29 October 1836
OccupationClergyman, Church of England
Research fieldAstronomy
ActivityEducation:
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
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election05/05/1796
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1836 No 27 p 438
CodeNA2998
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1796/05Lax, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
L&P/12/76Paper, 'On a supposed error in the elements of euclid' by William Lax1804
L&P/11/84Paper, 'Method of finding the latitude of a place by two altitudes of the sun and the time between the two observations' by William Lax1798
PT/3/15Paper, 'On a method of examining the division of astronomical instruments' by Reverend Wm [William] Lax in a letter to Reverend Dr [Nevil] Maskelyne27 August 1808
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