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Authorised form of nameKater; Edward (1816 - 1866)
Dates1816 - 1866
Date of birth1816
Date of death06 July 1866
ActivityMemberships:
MRI; FSS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election19/11/1840
RelationshipsSon of Henry Kater (FRS 1814)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/308769894
CodeNA3336
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1840/30Kater, Edward: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/957/125Letter from T M [Thomas Miles] Richardson, 12 Porchester Terrace, Hyde Park, to E [Edward] Kater18 January 1865
MS/957/126Letter from [illegible], 7 East India Avenue, Leadenhall Street, to 'Dear Sir' [Edward Kater?]10 January 1865
PT/23/9/2Plate, shape of card used in escapement by Edward Kater[1840]
PT/23/9Paper, 'Description of an astronomical clock invented by the late Capt Henry Kater FRS, drawn up from his own memorandums' by Edward Kater[1840]
PT/74/7/3Diagram, design of escapement by E [Edward] Kater[1840]
PT/74/7/4Diagram, axes of the escapement by E [Edward] Kater[1840]
RR/1/131Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Description of an escapement for an astronomical clock, invented by the late Captain Henry Kater' by Henry Kater and Edward Kater17 June 1840
PT/23/9/1Manuscript, 'Description of an astronomical clock invented by the late Capt Henry Kater FRS, drawn up from his own memorandums' by Edward Kater[1840]
MS/957/101Letter from S [Samuel] Hunter Christie, Secretary, the Royal Society, Somerset Place, Strand, to Edward Kater, Parthenon Club, 20 St. James's Square20 November 1840
MS/957/104Letter from J F W [John Frederick William] Herschel, to 'Dear Sir' [Edward Kater][March 1840]
HS/11/71Letter, from Edward Kater to Sir John Herschel, dated at Parthenon Club17 March 1840
HS/11/72Letter, from Edward Kater to Sir John Herschel, dated at Parthenon Club28 March 1840
MS/957/118Letter from James Yates, Lauderdale House, Highgate, to Edward Kater2 April 1864
MS/957/112Letter from M [Michael] Faraday, Royal Institution of Great Britain, to 'My dear Sir' [Edward Kater]28 February 1861
MS/957/100Incomplete letter from J F W [John Frederick William] Herschel, to 'Dear Sir' [Edward Kater][March 1840]
MS/957/102Letter from Edmund R Daniell, Secretary, Royal Institution, to Edward Kater1 June 1835
MS/957/108Signature, transcribed as 'Okahdzaky', collected by Edward Kater [?][1862]
MS/957/110Signature of Tachy Kansack, collected by Edward Kater [?][1862]
MS/957/111Signature, transcribed as 'Saytoo Daynosin', collected by Edward Kater [?][1862]
MS/957/109Signature, transcribed as 'D Ka-wa-sa-ki', collected by Edward Kater [?][1862]
MS/957/103Letter from Marianne Skerrett, B [Buckingham] Palace, to 'My dear Edward' [Kater]9 April [no year]
MS/957/105Letter from 'M.S.' [Marianne Skerrett], B. [Buckingham] Palace, to 'My dear Edward' [Kater]29 April [no year]
MS/957/107Letter from T [Thomas] Adolphus Trollope, to [Edward] Katerno date
MS/957/114Letter from F R [Francis Richard] Sandford, Secretary, International Exhibition 1862, Exhibition Building, South Kensington, to Edward Kater24 November 1862
MS/957/113Letter from B. [Benjamin] Hawes, War Office, to E [Edward] Kater29 February 1860
MS/957/115Letter from J B [John Baldwin] Buckstone, T.R.H. [Theatre Royal Haymarket], to 'Dear Sir' [Edward Kater]18 July 1863
MS/957/120Note from Stella Colas, to [Edward Kater?]no date
MS/957/119Letter from D D [Daniel Dunglas] Home, 64 Jermyn Street, St. James, to [Edward] Kater9 June 1864
MS/957/117List headed 'Dress of Her Majesty' [Queen Victoria], by [Marianne Skerrett]no date [c.1861-1862?]
MS/957/121Signature, Therese Tietjens, collected by Edward Kater [?]no date
MS/957Certificates and correspondence of Henry Kater and of Edward Kater1799-1864
MS/957/106Letter from Henry James, Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, to Edward Kater21 June 1859
MS/957/116Letter from Mary Somerville, Hotel Royal, Geneva, to 'My dear Edward' [Kater]29 February 1864
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