Authorised form of name | Lax; William (1761 - 1836) |
Dates | 1761 - 1836 |
Date of birth | 1761 |
Place of death | His house at St Ippolyts, Hertfordshire |
Date of death | 29 October 1836 |
Occupation | Clergyman, Church of England |
Research field | Astronomy |
Activity | Education: 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
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 05/05/1796 |
Source | Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc 1836 No 27 p 438 |
Code | NA2998 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
EC/1796/05 | Lax, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
L&P/12/76 | Paper, 'On a supposed error in the elements of euclid' by William Lax | 1804 |
L&P/11/84 | Paper, 'Method of finding the latitude of a place by two altitudes of the sun and the time between the two observations' by William Lax | 1798 |
PT/3/15 | Paper, 'On a method of examining the division of astronomical instruments' by Reverend Wm [William] Lax in a letter to Reverend Dr [Nevil] Maskelyne | 27 August 1808 |