Authorised form of name | Witchell; George (- 1785) |
Dates | - 1785 |
Date of death | 29 January 1785 |
Research field | Astronomy |
Activity | Career: Published a map of the moon's shadow across England in the solar eclipse (1764); Headmaster, Royal Academy, Portsmouth (1767)
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 09/07/1767 |
Relationships | Descended, on his mother's side, from Daniel Quare, clock and watchmaker. Was a Quaker, but became Church of England |
Source | Sources: Bulloch's Roll References: L B Glyn, 'Israel Lyons: a short but starry career. The life of an eighteenth-century Jewish botanist and astronomer' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 275-305 |
Code | NA6923 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
EC/1767/22 | Witchell, George: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
MS/391/118 | Bond of George Witchell to the Treasurer of the Royal Society | 9 July 1767 |
L&P/5/274 | Letter, 'Meteorological observations at Portsmouth' from Captain Wallis to George Witchell | 9 August 1771 |
L&P/4/358/2 | Plate, unnamed [Curves formed by the shadow of an oblate spheroid] by unknown artist | 1767 |
L&P/4/358/1 | Letter, 'Of the curve formed by the shadow of an oblate spheroid' from George Witchell to the Royal Society | 7 January 1767 |
L&P/4/358 | Paper, 'Of the curve formed by the shadow of an oblate spheroid' by George Witchell | 7 January 1767 |