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Authorised form of nameBaxendell; Joseph (1815 - 1887)
Dates1815 - 1887
NationalityBritish
Place of birthManchester, England
Date of birth19 April 1815
Place of deathThe Observatory, Birkdale, near Southport
Date of death07 October 1887
Research fieldMeteorology
Astronomy
ActivityCareer:
Went to sea (1829-1835); assisted his father in his job as a land steward; took up astronomy; Astronomer to the Corporation of the City of Manchester (by 1881)
Memberships:
FRAS (1858); Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election12/06/1884
RelationshipsSon of Thomas Baxendell and his wife, nee Shepley; married Mary Anne, sister of Norman Pogson, government astronomer of Madras
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1887-1888 vol 43 pp iv-vi signed by B S
James Bottomley 'Memoir of the late Joseph Baxendell, FRS, FRAS' in Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 4th deries, Vol. 1, pp 28-58
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/35237920
CodeNA6668
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1884/09Baxendell, Joseph: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/005451Baxendell, Josephnd
MC/8/31Letter from Josh [Joseph] Baxendell, Cheetam Hill, Manchester, to Lieut-General Edward Sabine, President of the Royal Society22 March 1867
MC/13/64Letter from Osborne Reynolds, Fallowfield, Manchester, to W [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]15 June 1884
MC/13/66Letter from Josh [Joseph] Baxendell, 14 Liverpool Road, Birkdale, Southport, to Professor G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society16 June 1884
MC/13/111Letter from Joseph Baxendell, 14 Liverpool Road, Birkdale, Southport, to Professor G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society2 December 1884
MC/13Volume 13 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1884
MC/13/112Letter from Joseph Baxendell, 14 Liverpool Road, Birkdale, Southport, to Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society3 December 1884
MC/8Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1867-1869
PP/5/22Paper, 'Report to the Solar Physics Committee on a comparison between apparent inequalities of short period in sun-spot areas and in diurnal temperature ranges at Toronto and Kew' by Balfour Stewart and William Lant Carpenter1884
PP/5/22/1Manuscript, 'Report to the Solar Physics Committee on a comparison between apparent inequalities of short period in sun-spot areas and in diurnal temperature ranges at Toronto and Kew' by Balfour Stewart and William Lant Carpenter1884
MC/14/18Letter from Joseph Baxendell, Southport, to the Honorary Secretaries of the Royal Society11 February 1885
MC/14Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1885-1888
HS/3/307Letter, from Joseph Baxendell to Sir John Herschel, dated at Stocks St., Manchester25 May 1861
HS/3/305Letter, from Joseph Baxendell to Sir John Herschel, dated at Stocks St., Manchester4 July 1856
HS/3/306Letter, from Joseph Baxendell to Sir John Herschel, dated at Stocks St., Manchester26 August 1858
HS/19/161aLetter, from Henry Enfield Roscoe and Joseph Baxendell to Sir John Herschel, dated at Manchester12 March 1868
HS/3/304Letter, from Joseph Baxendell to Sir John Herschel, dated at Princess St., Manchester29 November 1848
HS/3/311Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Joseph Baxendell, dated at Collingwood2 February 1867
HS/24/186Copy of letter, from Sir John Herschel to Joseph Baxendell, dated at Collingwood2 February 1867
HS/3/310Letter, from Joseph Baxendell to Sir John Herschel, dated at Lit. & Phil. Soc., Manchester2 November 1865
HS/3/308Letter, from Joseph Baxendell to Sir John Herschel, dated at Stocks St., Manchester6 March 1862
HS/3/309Letter, from Joseph Baxendell to Sir John Herschel, dated at Lit. & Phil. Soc., Manchester26 October 1865
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