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Authorised form of nameHerschel; John (1837 - 1921)
Dates1837 - 1921
Place of birthCape of Good Hope
Date of birth29 October 1837
Date of death31/05/1921
ActivityEducation:
Clapham Grammar School; Addiscombe
Career:
Royal Engineers, Bengal (1856); went to India (1859); Captain; appointed to the Great Trigonometrical Survey (c1857-1886); employed by the Royal Society to observe the eclipses of the sun (1868 and 1871)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election08/06/1871
RelationshipsSon of Sir John Frederick William Herschel (FRS 1813); grandson of Sir William Herschel (FRS 1781); younger brother of Alexander Stewart Herschel (FRS 1884); married (1867) Mary Cornwallis, daughter of Rev Lipscombe, rector of Welbury, Yorkshire and widow of D Power QC
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
References:
Alex D D Craik, 'James Ivory, FRS, mathematician: "the most unlucky person that ever existed"' in NR 2000 vol 54 pp 223-247
Mike Ware 'Herschel's Chrysotoype: A Golden Legend Re-told' in History of Photography, Vol 30, Number 1, Spring 2006
CodeNA7955
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1871/07Herschel, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/226A history of pendulum observations, by John Herschel1881-1886
HSF/2/1/84Incomplete letter from [John Herschel], Bangalore [Bengaluru], to [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 16 April 1868
HSF/2/1/87Letter from J [John] Herschel, to 'Dear Pater' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 26 October [1868]
NLB/32/29Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Colonel John Herschel, Fellow of the Royal Society14 December 1905
HSF/2/1/88Drawing, solar prominence, by John Herschel, after James Francis Tennant26 October [1868]
HSF/2/1/90Letter from J H [John Herschel], Bangalore [Bengaluru], to Major [James Francis] Tennant22 November [1868]
HSF/2/1/85Incomplete letter from [John Herschel], Jamkandi [Jamkhandi], to [Sir John Frederick William Herschel?] 19 August [1868]
HSF/2/1/86Incomplete letter from [Margaret Cornwallis Herschel?], Bangalore [Bengaluru], to 'Dear Sir John' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 26 August 1868 [?]
HSF/2/1/91Letter from J [John] Herschel, Bangalore [Bengaluru], to 'Dear Pater' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 15 November 1868
HSF/2/1/92Drawing, positions of nebulae, by John Herschel15 November 1868
HSF/2/1/93Drawing, positions of nebulae, by John Herschel[c.15 November 1868]
NLB/57/665Copy letter from AH White, Assistant Librarian of the Royal Society; to Col. J [John] Herschel, FRS8 January 1920
MS/427/104Copy letter from [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Major [John] Herschel R.E. FRS28 April 1881
MS/427/96Copy letter from [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Major [John] Herschel, FRS24 March 1881
MS/427/101Copy letter from [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Major [John] Herschel R.E. FRS23 April 1881
MS/427/100Copy letter from [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Major [John] Herschel R.E. FRS12 April 1881
NLB/3/111Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Colonel John Herschel, Fellow of the Royal Society14 March 1889
HSF/2/1/47Letter from J [John] Herschel, Camp Pipli, to 'Dearest Bella' [Isabella Herschel] 27-29 April 1860
MS/549Notes on pendulum experiments by Colonel John Herschel
MC/9/239Letter from J [John] Herschel, Captain Royal Engineers, Bangalore, to W [William] Sharpey, Secretary of the Royal Society18 July 1871
MC/9/392Letter from J [John] Herschel, Bangalore, to [Walter White], Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society24 June 1872
MC/9Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1870-June 1873
MS/257/2/259Letter from John Herschel, 2 Summer Place to Edward Sabine13 December 1873
MC/12/46Letter from J [John] Herschel, Collingwood, to W [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]19 May 1880
MS/257/2/258Letter from John Herschel, Collingwood to Edward Sabine6 December 1873
MC/12Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1880-1883
AP/50/6Unpublished letter, regarding 'Account of the Solar Eclipse of 1868, as Seen at Jamkandi in the Bombay Presidency' from D Rennoldson to Captain Henry22 August 1868
RR/8/317Referee's report by Alexander Ross Clarke, on a paper 'On gravimeters; with special reference to a torsion gravimeter, designed by the late J. Allan Broun, F. R. S' by John Herschel11 February 1881
MC/15/14Letter from [John] Herschel, Observatory House, Slough, to the Secretary of the Royal Society12 February 1889
MC/14Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1885-1888
MC/14/34Letter from John Herschel, Collingwood, to the Under Secretary of State for India20 April 1885
MS/601Bibliography of Pendulums by Colonel John Herschelc.1880-1886
HSF/2Correspondence of Colonel John Herschel19th century
HSF/2/1Letters of John Herschel to Margaret Brodie Herschel and John Frederick William Herschel1857-1870
HSF/2/1/13Letter from J [John] Herschel, Brompton Barracks, [Chatham], to 'Dear Papa' [John Frederick William Herschel] 24 August 1857
HSF/2/1/15Letter from J [John] Herschel, to 'Dear Pater' [John Frederick William Herschel] n.d. [1857?]
HSF/2/1/11Letter from J [John] Herschel, Brompton Barracks, [Chatham], to 'Dear Pater' [John Frederick William Herschel] 3-4 August 1857
HSF/2/1/52Letter from J [John] Herschel, Murree, to 'Dearest Mother' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] 29 September 1860
HSF/2/1/30Letter from J [John] Herschel, Roorkie [Roorkee], to 'Dearest Father' [John Frederick William Herschel] 4 June 1859
HSF/2/1/26Letter from J [John] Herschel, Darjeeling, to 'Dearest Maila' [Maria Sophia Herschel]3 February 1859
HSF/2/1/27Letter from J [John] Herschel, Calcutta [Kolkata], to 'Dearest Mama' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] 20 February 1859
HSF/2/1/31Letter from J [John] Herschel, Roorkee, to 'Dearest Bella' [Isabella Herschel] 12 July 1859
HSF/2/1/29Letter from J [John] Herschel, Roorkee, to 'Dearest Mama' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] 30 April-2 May 1859
HSF/2/1/34Drawing, 'Under the verandah...', by J [John] HerschelJune 1859
HSF/2/1/37Letter from J [John] Herschel, Roorkie [Roorkee], to 'Dearest Father' [John Frederick William Herschel] 4 November 1859
HSF/2/1/35Drawing, a bungalow in Roorkee, by [John Herschel]n.d. [June 1859]
HSF/2/1/36Drawing, a tripod and theodolite, by [John Herschel]n.d. [June 1859]
HSF/2/1/42Letter from J [John] Herschel, Camp Dajel T.S. nr. D.G. [Dera Gazi] Khan , to 'Dearest Bella' [Isabella Herschel] 19 February 1860
HSF/2/1/33Note from J [John] Herschel, Roorkee, to [Amelia Herschel] 28 July 1859
HSF/2/1/38Letter from J [John] Herschel, Mussoorie, to 'Dearest Mother' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] 13 November 1859
HSF/2/1/63Letter from J H [John Herschel], Camp Bhawalpoor [Bahawalpur] States, to 'Dearest B' [Isabella Herschel] 2 March 1862
HSF/2/1/39Letter from J [John] Herschel, Lahore, to 'Dearest Mother' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] 17 December 1859
HSF/2/1/41Letter from J [John] Herschel, Camp Dalura T.S. nr. D.G. [Dera Gazi] Khan , to 'Dearest Mother' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] 2 February 1860
HSF/2/1/45Newspaper cutting from the Lahore Chronicle4 April 1860
HSF/2/1/57Letter from J H [John Herschel], Camp on the Sutlej, to 'Dearest Father Mother & all...' [John Frederick William Herschel, Margaret Brodie Herschel] 12 February 1861
HSF/2/1/46Newspaper cutting from the Lahore Chroniclen.d. [March-April 1860]
HSF/2/1/44Newspaper cutting from the Lahore Chroniclen.d. [1860]
HSF/2/1/65Letter from J [John] Herschel, Mussoorie, to 'Dearest Mother' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] 8 May 1862
HSF/2/1/55Letter from J [John] Herschel, Camp on board a boat going down the Indus, nr. Dera Ghazee [Ghazi] Khan, to 'Dearest Mother' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] 5 December 1860
HSF/2/1/48Letter from J [John] Herschel, Murree, to 'Dearest Mother' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] 20-24 May 1860
HSF/2/1/53Letter from J [John] Herschel, Camp, to 'Dearest Father' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 13-17 November 1860 and 18 February 1861
HSF/2/1/50Letter from J [John] Herschel, Murree, to 'Dearest Vater' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 13-14 July 1860
HSF/2/1/51Letter from 'Jacky' [John Herschel], Murree, to 'Dearest Mother' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] 8 August 1860
HSF/2/1/60Letter from J H [John Herschel], Camp somewhere in Bhawalpoor [Bahawalpur], to 'Dearest Mother' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] 29 November 1861
HSF/2/1/54Astronomical chart by John Herschel13 November 1860
HSF/2/1/56Journal of travels in India kept by John Herschel30 December 1859-29 January 1860
HSF/2/1/58Letter from John H [Herschel], Camp on the Sutlej, Bhawulpur [Bahawalpur], to 'Dearest Mother' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] 23 March 1861
HSF/2/1/61Letter from J [John] Herschel, Camp nr. Bhawulpur [Bahawalpur], to 'Dearest Pater' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 29 December 1861-11 January 1862
HSF/2/1/59Letter from J H [John Herschel], Mussoorie, to 'Dearest Father' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 3 October 1861
HSF/2/1/62Letter from J H [John Herschel], Camp Bhawalpoor [Bahawalpur] States (Khairpur), to 'Dearest Mother' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] 6 February 1862
HSF/2/1/64Letter from J [John] Herschel, to 'Dearest Mother' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] 31 March-1 April 1862
HSF/2/1/66Letter from J H [John Herschel], Mussoorie, to 'Carisima Bella' [Isabella Herschel] 17 June 1862
HSF/2/1/67Letter from J [John] Herschel, Mussoorie, to 'Dearest Pater' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 17 August 1862
HSF/2/1/68Letter from J H [John Herschel], Dehra, to 'Dearest Mother' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] 3 October 1862
HSF/2/1/69Letter from J H [John Herschel], Mussoorie, to 'Dearest Mother' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] 2 November 1862
HSF/2/1/70Letter from J H [John Herschel], Dehra, to 'Dearest Mother' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] 18 December 1862
HSF/2/1/72Letter from J [John] Herschel, Masoori [Mussoorie], to 'Dearest Mother' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] 14-17 May 1863
HSF/2/1/73Letter from J H [John Herschel], to 'Dear Alick' [Alexander Stewart Herschel] no date [1863?]
HSF/2/1/74Letter from J H [John Herschel], G T [Great Trigonometrical] Survey Office, Massori [Mussoorie], to 'My dear Father' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 4-9 May 1864
HSF/2/1/8Letter from J [John] Herschel, Brompton Barracks, Chatham, to 'Dear Mama' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] n.d. [May-June 1857?]
HSF/2/1/23Letter from J [John] Herschel, off Malta, to 'Dearest Mama' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] 29 November 1858
HSF/2/1/24Letter from J [John] Herschel, Steamer 'Bengal', Red Sea, to 'Dearest Papa' [John Frederick William Herschel] December 1858
HSF/2/1/25Letter from J [John] Herschel, Howrah, to 'Dearest Mama' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] 8 January 1859
HSF/2/1/28Letter from J [John] Herschel, Roorkee, to 'Dearest Mama' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] 16 March 1859
HSF/2/1/32Letter from J [John] Herschel, Roorkee, to Amelia [Herschel] 28 July 1859
HSF/2/1/40Letter from J [John] Herschel, Camp near Dera Ghazee [Gazi] Khan, to 'Dearest Pater' [John Frederick William Herschel] 22-24 January 1860
HSF/2/1/43Letter from J [John] Herschel, Camp nr. Dera [?] Khan [?], to 'Dearest Maila' [Maria Sophia Herschel]8-15 April 1860
HSF/2/1/49Letter from J [John] Herschel, Murree, to 'Dearest Father' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 3-28 June 1860
HSF/2/1/71Letter from J [John] Herschel, Dehra, to 'Dear Father' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 5-17 April 1863
HSF/2/1/75Letter from 'Jack' [John Herschel], Mussoorie, to 'My darling Maria' [Maria Sophia Herschel] 17-28 July 1864
HSF/2/1/76Letter from John Herschel, Dehra, to [James Thomas] Walker15 November 1864
HSF/2/1/77Letter from J H [John Herschel], Dehra and Mussoorie, to 'Dear Father' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 6-30 May 1865
HSF/2/1/78Letter from J [John] Herschel, Masoorie [Mussoorie], to 'Dear Father' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 29 October 1865
HSF/2/1/79Letter from J [John] Herschel, Bedford Hotel, to 'Dear Father' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 1 July 1866
HSF/2/1/80Letter from J H [John Herschel], Halstead Place, to 'Dear Father' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 7 June 1867
HSF/2/1/82Letter from J [John] Herschel, Hastings, to 'Dear Pater' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 16 October 1867
HSF/2/1/81Letter from J H [John Herschel], 12 Wellington Square, Hastings, to 'Dear Pater' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 28 September 1867
HSF/2/1/83Letter from J H [John Herschel], Bangalore [Bengaluru], to 'Dear Pater' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 8 March 1868
HSF/2/1/94Letter from J [John] Herschel, Camp, Cape Comorin Base, to 'Dear Pater' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 10 February 1869
HSF/2/1/95Letter from J [John] Herschel, Bangalore [Bengaluru], to 'Dear Pater' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 3 May 1869
HSF/2/1/96Letter from J [John] Herschel, Bangalore [Bengaluru], to 'Dear Pater' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 10 May 1869
HSF/2/1/97Letter from J [John] Herschel, Bangalore [Bengaluru], to 'Dear Pater' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 27 May 1869
HSF/2/1/98Letter from J H [John Herschel], Bangalore [Bengaluru], to 'Dear Father' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 12-15 June 1869
HSF/2/1/99Letter from J [John] Herschel, Bangalore [Bengaluru], to 'Dear Pater' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 10-16 August 1869
HSF/2/1/100Commentary on Mr. [Norman Robert] Pogson's observations during the solar eclipse of August 1868, by J [John] Herschel30 August 1869
HSF/2/1/101Table of [Norman Robert] Pogson's observations during the solar eclipse of August 1868, by J [John] Herschel[30 August 1869]
HSF/2/1/102Letter from J H [John Herschel], Bangalore [Bengaluru], to 'Dear Pater' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 27 September 1869
HSF/2/1/103Copy extract of a letter from Lieutenant J [John] Herschel], Deputy Superintendent of Survey, Bangalore [Bengaluru], to Colonel [James Thomas] Walker, Superintendent, Great Trigonometrical Survey2 October 1869
HSF/2/1/104Letter from J H [John Herschel], Bangalore [Bengaluru], to 'Dear Mother' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] 5 October 1869
HSF/2/1/105Letter from M C [Mary Cornwallis] Herschel, Bangalore [Bengaluru], to 'My dear Sir John' [John Frederick William Herschel] 28 December 1869
HSF/2/1/106Copy letter from J [John] Herschel], to Colonel [James Francis] Tennant21 November 1869
HSF/2/1/107Letter from J [John] Herschel, Bangalore [Bengaluru], to 'Dear Father' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 1 May 1870
HSF/2/1/108Letter from J [John] Herschel, Bangalore [Bengaluru], to 'Dear Father' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 20 June 1870
HSF/2/1/109Letter from J [John] Herschel, Bangalore [Bengaluru], to 'Dear Pater' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 11 August 1870
HSF/2/1/110Letter from J [John] Herschel, Yercaud, Shevaroy [Servarayan] Hills, North of Salem, to 'Dear Pater' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 17 October 1870
HSF/2/1/111Letter from J H [John Herschel], Bangalore [Bengaluru], to 'Dear Pater' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 5 November 1870
HSF/2/1/112Letter from J [John] Herschel, Camp, to 'Dear Pater' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] 24 December 1870
HSF/2/1/113Incomplete letter from [John Herschel], Belgaum, to [Sir John Frederick William Herschel?] 23 August [1868?]
HSF/2/1/114Drawing, 'Plan of Graceville', by [John Herschel]no date
HSF/2/2Letters from various correspondents, in India, to John Herschel1859-1865
HSF/2/1/7Letter from J [John] Herschel, Brompton Barracks, Chatham, to 'Dear Pater' [John Frederick William Herschel] 13 May 1857
HSF/2/1/1Letter from J [John] Herschel, Brompton Barracks, Chatham, to 'Dear Mama' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] 5 February 1857
HSF/2/1/2Letter from J [John] Herschel, Brompton Barracks, Chatham, to 'Dear Papa' [John Frederick William Herschel] 15 February 1857
HSF/2/1/3Report sheet for duty officers, the Royal Engineers' Establishment, Brompton Barracks, Chatham1857
HSF/2/1/4Letter from J [John] Herschel, Brompton Barracks, Chatham, to 'Dear Papa' [John Frederick William Herschel] 3 March 1857
HSF/2/1/5Letter from J [John] Herschel, Chatham, to 'Dear Papa' [John Frederick William Herschel] 11 March 1857
HSF/2/1/6Letter from J [John] Herschel, Brompton Barracks, Chatham, to 'Bella' [Isabella Herschel] 21 March 1857
HSF/2/1/9Letter from J [John] Herschel, Brompton Barracks, to 'Dear Mama' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] 27 June 1857
HSF/2/1/10Letter from J [John] Herschel, Brompton Barracks, to 'Dear Mama' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] 22 July 1857
HSF/2/1/12Letter from J [John] Herschel, Brompton Barracks, to 'Dear Mama' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] 16 August 1857
HSF/2/1/16Letter from J [John] Herschel, Brompton Barracks, to 'Bella' [Isabella Herschel] 17 September 1857
HSF/2/1/17Letter from J [John] Herschel, Brompton Barracks, to 'Dear Mama' [Margaret Brodie Herschel] 4 October 1857
HSF/2/1/18Letter from J [John] Herschel, Brompton Barracks, to 'Dear Baria' [Maria Sophia Herschel?] 29 October 1857
HSF/2/1/19Letter from J [John] Herschel, Chatham, to 'Dear Papa' [John Frederick William Herschel] 12 November 1857
HSF/2/1/20Letter from J [John] Herschel, Chatham, to 'Dear Maila' [Amelia Herschel?] 25 December 1857
HSF/2/1/21Incomplete letter from J [John] Herschel, to [John Frederick William Herschel or Margaret Brodie Herschel]no date [early 1857]
HSF/2/1/22Incomplete letter from J [John] Herschel, to [a sister]no date [1857]
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