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Authorised form of nameLenox-Conyngham; Sir; Gerald Ponsonby (1866 - 1956)
Other forms of nameGerald Ponsonby Lenox
Other forms of surnameConyngham
Dates1866 - 1956
Date of birth21 August 1866
Date of death27/10/1956
ActivityHonours:
Kt 1919
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election02/05/1918
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1957 vol 3 pp 129-140, plate, by E C Bullard
References:
Sir Alan Cook, 'Science from India' in NR 1998 vol 52 pp 1-2
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/78310407
CodeNA6790
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/002714Lennox-Conyngham, Sir Gerald Ponsonbynd
RR/16/335Referee's report by William Davidson Niven, on a paper 'An account of the pendulum observations made at Kew & Greenwich Observatories in 1903' by Gerald Ponsonby Lenox-ConynghamJuly 1905
RR/16/336Referee's report by Frank Watson Dyson, on a paper, 'An account of the pendulum observations made at Kew & Greenwich observatories in 1903' by Gerald Ponsonby Lenox-Conyngham28 July 1905
NLB/36/767Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Charles Chree, [Fellow of the Royal Society]12 December 1907
NLB/62/504Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Gerald Ponsonby] Lenox-Conyngham, FRS23 February 1922
NLB/63/96Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Gerald Ponsonby] Lenox-Conyngham, FRS27 June 1922
NLB/60/220Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Gerald [Ponsonby] Lenox-Conyngham, FRS30 December 1920
NLB/60/128Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Gerard Ponsonby] Lenox-Conyngham, FRS11 December 1920
NLB/59/480Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Colonel Sir Gerald Lenox Conyngham, FRS6 October 1920
NLB/63/132Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Sir Gerald [Ponsonby] Lenox-Conyngham, FRS, 41 Gay Street, Bath04 July 1922
NLB/60/159Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Gerald [Ponsonby] Lenox-Conyngham, FRS16 December 1920
RR/47/130Referee's report by Gerald Ponsonby Lenox-Conyngham, on a paper 'Further history of a quartz thread gravity balance' by Richard Threlfall and Alfred John DawsonFebruary 1932
NLB/57/237Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Colonol GP [Gerald Ponsonby] Lenox-Conyngham, FRS25 September 1919
NLB/61/837Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Gerald Ponsonby] Lenox Conyngham, FRS3 November 1921
RR/54/1Referee's report by Gerald Ponsonby Lenox-Conyngham, on a paper 'Travel times in seismology' by Harold Jeffreys10 July 1935
NLB/67/392Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Gerald Lenox-Conyngham, FRS13 December 1924
RR/65/58Referee's report by Gerald Ponsonby Lenox-Conyngham, on a paper 'An absolute determination of the acceleration due to gravity' by J S Clark29 July 1938
NLB/63/143Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Commander F. Branco, P.N., Portuguese Naval Attache, 12 Gloucester Place, Portman Square, W.1.06 July 1922
NLB/64/171Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Under Secretary of State; Colonial Office, S.W.l.16 February 1923
NLB/64/19Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Gerald Ponsonby] Lenox-Conyngham, FRS19 January 1923
NLB/64/457Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir David Orme Masson, FRS; Australian National Research Council, Royal Society's House, 5 Elizabeth Street, Sydney18 April 1923
NLB/63/51Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Gerald Ponsonby] Lenox-Conyngham, FRS19 June 1922
NLB/66/23Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Gerald Lewnox-Conyngham, FRS., Cambridge8 February 1924
NLB/66/215Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [John Edward] Marr, FRS18 March 1924
NLB/66/22Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to the H.M. Inspector of Taxes, Picadilly District, Grosvenor Gardens, S.W.18 February 1924
NLB/66/123Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Gerald Lenox-Conyngham, FRS.25 February 1924
NLB/67/616Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Gerald Lenox-Conyngham, FRS30 January 1925
NLB/67/570Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Gerald [Ponsonby] Lenox-Conyngham, FRS23 January 1925
NLB/66/158Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Gerald Lenox-Conyngham, FRS5 March 1924
NLB/66/598Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to H. Eustance Davies, Esq., Treasury Chambers, Whitehall, S.W.13 June 1924
NLB/66/747Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, Treasury, Whitehall, S.W.13 July 1924
NLB/68/774Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Gerald Lenox-Conyngham, FRS31 October 1925
NLB/69/625Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Gerald Lenox-Conyngham, FRS30 June 1926
NLB/69/167Copy letter from Henry Hallett Dale, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Gerald Lenox-Conyngham, FRS22 January 1926
NLB/66/883Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Gerald Ponsonby] Lenox-Conyngham, FRS6 August 1924
NLB/70/37Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lady Lenox-Conyngham8 December 1926
NLB/69/171Copy letter from Henry Hallett Dale, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Albert Charles] Seward, FRS22 January 1926
NLB/69/825Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Under-Secretary of State for India, India Office, Whitehall, SW128 October 1926
NLB/70/517Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Gerald Lenox Conyngham, FRS28 April 1927
CD/5/44Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society, to Sir Gerald Ponsonby Lenox-Conyngham5 April 1923
CD/5/54Letter from Sir Gerald Ponsonby Lenox-Conyngham, to Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society25 April 1923
NLB/72/483Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Gerald Lenox-Conyngham, FRS11 November 1929
NLB/71/925Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Gerald Lenox-Conyngham, FRS7 December 1928
NLB/72/372Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Gerald Lenox-Conyngham, FRS29 August 1929
NLB/68/652Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Gerald Lenox-Conyngham, FRS2 October 1925
RR/16/337Memoranda from Robert William Frederick Harrison, and reply from Joseph Larmor, on a paper 'An account of the pendulum observations made at Kew and Greenwich Observatories in 1903' by Gerald Ponsonby Lenox-Conynham28 July 1905
EC/1918/15Lenox-Conyngham, Sir Gerald Ponsonby: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/16/334Referee's report by William Davidson Niven, on a paper 'On pendulum observations at Kew & Greenwich' by Gerald Ponsonby Lenox-Conyngham4 July 1905
NLB/62/503Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Colonel [Henry George] Lyons, Chairman of the Gassiot Committee and FRS23 February 1922
RR/67/345Letter from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society on a paper 'On the salinity of the surface waters of the Irish Sea' by Joseph Proudman to Gerald Ponsonby Lenox-Conyngham14 November 1940
NLB/64New Letter Book volume 64, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration19 January 1923-11 July 1923
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
RR/64/116Referee's report by Gerald Ponsonby Lenox-Conyngham, on a paper 'The Royal Society expedition to Montserrat, B. W. I. - The volcanic history and petrology of Montserrat, with observation on Mt Pelé, in Martinique' by A G MacGregor11 September 1937
RR/30/60Referee's report by Gerald Ponsonby Lenox-Conyngham, on a paper 'The geology and physical geography of Chinese Tibet, and its relations to the mountain system of south-eastern Asia, from observations made during the Percy Sladen expedition, 1922' by John Walter Gregory and C J Gregory[February 1924]
RR/66/101Referee's report by Gerald Ponsonby Lenox-Conyngham, on a paper 'The Earth's magnetic field in Southern Africa at the epoch, 1 July 1930' by E N Grindley[January 1940]
RR/67/348Referee's report by Gerald Ponsonby Lenox-Conyngham on a paper 'On the salinity of the surface waters of the Irish Sea' by Joseph Proudman 27 November 1940
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