| Authorised form of name | Walmesley; Charles (1722 - 1797) |
| Other forms of surname | Walmsley |
| Dates | 1722 - 1797 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Westwood House, near Wigan, Lancashire, England |
| Date of birth | 13 January 1722 |
| Place of death | Bath, Somerset |
| Date of death | 25 November 1797 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
St Joseph's Chapel, Bristol |
| Occupation | Roman Catholic priest |
| Research field | Mathematics |
| Astronomy |
| Activity | Education:
English Benedictine College of St Gregory, Douai; English monastery of St Edmund, Paris, France; DD (Sorbonne, Paris)
Career:
Became a monk, monastery of St Edmund, Paris (1739); Prior, monastery of St Edmund, Paris (1749-1753); Procurator-General of his order, Rome (1754); Coadjutor to Bishop William York (1756); Bishop of Rama (1756); Vicar-apostolic of the western district of England (1770); his library was burnt during the Gordon riots, London (1780)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 01/11/1750 |
| Relationships | Son of John Walmesley, of Wigan, Lancashire and his wife Mary, daughter of William Greaves |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB |
| Code | NA6829 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| MM/10/13 | Report on a paper by Charles Walmesley, by D'Alembert | 21 August 1748 |
| L&P/2/116 | Letter, 'Recommends Mr Charles Walmesley for election into the R.S.; speaks of earthquake in London; & of copies of his Nat. Hist.; of a burning-mirror of 360 small looking glasses' from George Louis Leclerc, Count of Buffon to Martin Folkes | 6 April 1750 |
| L&P/3/196 | Paper, 'An account of two essays by Charles Walmesley' by Matthew Raper | 1756 |
| EC/1750/08 | Walmesley, Charles: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| L&P/3/188 | Letter, 'Two astronomical essays. I. Precession of equinox and nutation; II. Annual motion of the earth as affected by Jupiter and Saturn' from Charles Walmesley to James Bradley | 3 December 1755 |
| L&P/3/341 | Letter, 'Of the irregularities in the motion of a satellite arising from the spherical figure of its primary' from Charles Walmesley to James Bradley | 1758 |