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Authorised form of name	Robertson; Abraham (1751 - 1826)
Other forms of name	Abram
Dates	1751 - 1826
Nationality	British
Place of birth	Dunse, near Berwick, Berwickshire, Scotland
Date of birth	04 November 1751
Place of death	Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, Oxfordshire
Date of death	04 December 1826
DatesAndPlaces	Burial: St Peter's-in-the-East
Occupation	Clergyman
Research field	Mathematics
Research field	Astronomy
Activity	Education: Christchurch College, Oxford. BA (1779); MA (1782) Career: Kept a school at Ryle, Northumberland, and later one at Dunse, Berwickshire; took Holy Orders (1782); chaplain of Christchurch, Oxford; Savilian Professor of Geometry (1797); Savilian Professor of Astronomy (1810)
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	21/05/1795
Relationships	Son of Abraham Robertson
Source	Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB Authority: Altname from index to BR Abram; birth and burial place from DNB References: H E Bell, 'The Savilian Professors' Houses and Halley's Observatory at Oxford' in NR 1961 vol 16 pp 179-186
Virtual International Authority File	http://viaf.org/viaf/3585050
Virtual International Authority File	3585050
Code	NA7290

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
AP/12/20/3	Unpublished diagrams, angles of reflection and single-reflector telescope by Abraham Robertson	[1826]
EC/1795/14	Robertson, Abraham: certificate of election to the Royal Society
PT/1/3/2	Plate, geometric figures illustrating compound rotatory motion of the earth by [Abraham Robertson]	[1807]
PT/1/3/1	Manuscript, 'On the precession of the equinoxes' by Reverend Abram [Abraham] Robertson	[1807]
AP/12/20/2	Unpublished diagrams, angles of reflection by Abraham Robertson	[1826]
AP/12/20/1	Unpublished paper, 'An account of a telescope having only one reflector, and of easy management in observing' by Abram [Abraham] Robertson	[1826]
AP/12/20	Unpublished paper, 'An account of a telescope having only one reflector, and of easy management in observing' by Abram [Abraham] Robertson	[1826]
PT/10/7	Paper, 'Direct and expeditious methods of calculating the excentric from the mean anomaly of a planet' by Abram [Abraham] Robertson	[1816]
L&P/10/121	Letter, 'The binomial theorum demonstrated by the principles of multiplication' from Abraham Robertson to Nevil Maskelyne	27 October 1794
PT/10/8	Paper, 'Demonstrations of the late Dr Maskelyne's formulae for finding the longitude and latitude of a celestial object from its right ascension and declination; and for finding its right ascension and declination from its longitude and latitude, the obliquity of the ecliptic being given in both cases' by Abram [Abraham] Robertson	[1816]
PT/73/5/7	Drawings, terrestrial globes with equators, poles, ellipses, and quadrants by [Abraham Robertson]	[1816]
PT/1/3	Paper, 'On the precession of the equinoxes' by Reverend Abram [Abraham] Robertson	[1806]

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