| Authorised form of name | Talbot; William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877) |
| Other forms of name | Henry Fox |
| Dates | 1800 - 1877 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Melbury House, Dorset, England |
| Date of birth | 11 February 1800 |
| Place of death | Lacock Abbey, Chippenham, Wiltshire |
| Date of death | 17 September 1877 |
| Research field | Photochemistry |
| Mathematics |
| Activity | Education:
Harrow School
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 17/03/1831 |
| Royal Society activity | Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1838; Rumford Medal 1842
Lectures:
Bakerian 1837 |
| General context | Photographs of William Fox Talbot purchased for £2.25 million in October 2014 by the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Staff are delighted with the acquisition and are planning to stage a major exhibition in 2017.
Announcing the news at the Photography Oxford Festival, which finished on Sunday, Bodley’s Librarian Richard Ovenden said: “We are so pleased to have reached our fundraising target and are at last able to secure the Fox Talbot archive. We are looking forward to making this fascinating and important resource available to students and the photographic community.”
The Oxford University library received a grant of £1.2m in 2012 towards securing the archive.
After the National Heritage Memorial Fund awarded the library £1.2m, further donations came in from the Art Fund, plus gifts from individuals and charitable trusts.
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The final donation came from a legacy, allowing the Bodleian off Broad Street to reach its target of £2.25m.
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| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Authority:
Altname from election certificate
References:
Geoffrey Cantor, 'In Love With Light', review of Larry J Schaaf, Out of the Shadows. Herschel, Talbot and the Invention of Photography in NR 1993 vol 47 pp 147-149
Colin A Russell, 'Photographic Pioneer', review of Larry J Schaaf, Records of the Dawn of Photography, Talbot's Notebooks P & Q in NR 1998 vol 52 pp 196-197
John H Appleby, 'Woronzow Greig (1805-1865), FRS, and his Scientific Interests' in NR 1999 vol 53 pp 95-106 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/54325833 |
| Royal Society code | NA5837 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| MC/3/178 | Letter from William Henry Fox Talbot, to John David Roberton, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 29 June 1841 |
| MC/3/5 | Letter from William Henry Fox Talbot, 44 Queen Ann Street, to Dr. Peter Mark Roget, [Secretary of the Royal Society] | 5 February 1839 |
| NLB/20/400 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Editors of 'The Photogram', 6 Farringdon Aveneue, E.C. | 6 April 1900 |
| EC/1831/10 | Talbot, William Henry Fox: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/3/51 | Referee's report by John Thomas Graves, on a paper 'A memoir on curves of the third order' by Arthur Cayley | 31 January 1957 |
| IM/004488 | Talbot, William Henry Fox | nd |
| MC/2 | Volume 2 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1832-1838 |
| MC/2/153 | Letter from [William] Henry Fox Talbot, 31 Sackville Street, to the Royal Society | c. December 1834 |
| MC/3 | Volume 3 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1839-1843 |
| MC/3/15 | Letter from Joseph Bancroft Reade, Peckham, to the Royal Society | 28 February 1839 |
| MC/3/77 | Letter from [Carl Friedrich Philipp] von Martius, Munich, to John Frederic Daniell, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society | 24 March 1840 |
| MC/3/179 | Draft letter from the Royal Society to William Henry Fox Talbot | 30 June 1841 |
| MC/3/181 | Letter from William Henry Fox Talbot, to John David Roberton, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 30 June 1841 |
| MC/3/180 | Letter from William Henry Fox Talbot, to Dr. [Peter Mark] Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society, 39 Bernard Street, Russell Square | 30 June 1841 |
| MC/3/6 | Letter from William Henry Fox Talbot, 44 Queen Ann Street, to Dr. Peter Mark Roget, [Secretary of the Royal Society] | 6 February 1839 |
| AP/23/21 | Unpublished paper, 'Notice respecting a new kind of sensitive paper' by Henry Fox Talbot | 19 March 1839 |
| AP/45/5 | Unpublished paper, 'On spectrum analysis: with a description of a large spectroscope having nine prisms and achromatic telescopes of two feet focal length' by J P [John Peter] Gassiot | 1863 |
| AP/18/16 | Unpublished paper, 'Experiments on light' by H F [William Henry Fox] Talbot | June 1834 |
| AP/18/15 | Unpublished paper, 'New property of the arcs of the equilateral hyperbola' by H F [William Henry Fox] Talbot | January 1834 |
| AP/25/13 | Unpublished paper, 'An account of some recent improvements in photography' by Henry Fox Talbot | 1841 |
| MS/257/5/3 | Letter from William Henry Fox Talbot, 31 Sackville Street to [James Clark Ross] | 22 August 1839 |
| AP/45/5/1 | Unpublished manuscript, 'On spectrum analysis: with a description of a large spectroscope having nine prisms and achromatic telescopes of two feet focal length' by J P [John Peter] Gassiot | 1863 |
| AP/23/20 | Unpublished letter, 'An account of the process employed in photogenic drawing' from Henry Fox Talbot to Samuel Hunter Christie | 20 February 1839 |
| PP/10/58 | Paper, 'On certain definite integrals. No 15' by W H L [William Henry Leighton] Russell | 1887 |
| AP/23/19 | Unpublished paper, 'Some account of photogenic drawing or, the process by which natural objects may be made to delineate themselves, without the aid of the artist's pencil' by Henry Fox Talbot | 1839 |
| RR/1/32 | Referee's report by William Henry Fox Talbot, on a paper 'On the connection between the phenomena of the absorption of light, and the colours of thin plates' by David Brewster | 22 June 1837 |