Authorised form of name | Lardner; Dionysius (1793 - 1859); scientific writer |
Dates | 1793 - 1859 |
Place of birth | Dublin, Ireland |
Date of birth | 03 April 1793 |
Place of death | Naples, Italy |
Date of death | 29 April 1859 |
Occupation | Clergyman |
Research field | Mathematics |
Astronomy |
Activity | Education: Trinity College, Dublin. BA (1817); MA (1819); LLB; LLD (1827) Career: Began training for the law, but gave it up; gave a series of lectures on the steam engine, to the Dublin Royal Society; took holy orders probably with a view to becoming a Fellow of Trinity College but was never appointed; undertook literary and scientific work; gold medallist of the Royal Dublin Society (1826); moved to London under the patronage of Lord Brougham (1828); first Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, London University (1828-1833); resigned from professorship to concentrate on publication of the 'Cabinet cyclopaedia' (1829); eloped with the wife of Captain Richard Heaviside (1840) whose marriage was dissolved by Act of Parliament (1845), during which period Lardner gave a lecture tour in the United States; settled in Paris (1845); wrote on railways and astronomy Memberships: FRSE; FRAS; FLS; FZS; FCPS (Honorary); Statistical Society of Paris; MRIA; Fellow of the Society for Promoting Useful Arts in Scotland |
Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 28/02/1828 |
Relationships | Son of a Clare solicitor, William O'Brien Lardner; married: 1) (1815) Cecilia Flood (died 1862) granddaughter of the Irish parliamentarian Henry Flood, with whom he had three children, they separated (1820) and divorced (1849); 2) Mary, divorced wife of Captain Heaviside (?1849); father of Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot (b 1820) who became known as Dion Boucicault, playwright and author of 'The Shaughran' |
Source | Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Irish Innovators References: W Johnson, 'Contributors to Improving the Teaching of Calculus in Early 19th-Century England' in NR 1995 vol 49 pp 93-103 R A Buchanan, 'Science and Engineering: A Case Study in British Experience in the Mid-Nineteenth Century' in NR 1977-8 vol 32 pp 215-223 G Ferrari and A McConnell, 'Robert Mallet and the 'Great Neapolitan earthquake' of 1857 in NR 2005 vol 59 pp 45-64 Notes: Certificate headed: 'residence [in ink] Jermyn St [in pencil]'; part of certificate missing; parts of Citation deliberately obscured |
Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/56680641 |
Code | NA3370 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
EC/1828/08 | Lardner, Dionysius: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
MC/1/355 | Letter from Dionysius Lardner, 122 Regent Street, to Dr. [Peter Mark] Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society | 16 December 1831 |
IM/002632 | Lardner, Dionysius | nd |
RR/1/137 | Referee's report by William Hasledine Pepys, on a paper 'On certain properties of vapour' by Dionysius Lardner | [c.1832] |
MC/1 | Volume 1 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1800-1831 |
AP/15/22 | Unpublished paper, 'On certain properties of vapor' by Dionysius Lardner | [1832] |
AP/20/9 | Unpublished paper, regarding railways by D [Dionysius] Lardner | 1836 |
RR/1/138 | Referee's report by James Cumming, on a paper 'On certain properties of vapour' by Dionysius Lardner | [c.1832] |