| Authorised form of name | Baxendell; Joseph (1815 - 1887) |
| Dates | 1815 - 1887 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Manchester, England |
| Date of birth | 19 April 1815 |
| Place of death | The Observatory, Birkdale, near Southport |
| Date of death | 07 October 1887 |
| Research field | Meteorology |
| Astronomy |
| Activity | Career:
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
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 12/06/1884 |
| Relationships | Son of Thomas Baxendell and his wife, nee Shepley; married Mary Anne, sister of Norman Pogson, government astronomer of Madras |
| Source | Sources:
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 File | http://viaf.org/viaf/35237920 |
| Code | NA6668 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1884/09 | Baxendell, Joseph: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/005451 | Baxendell, Joseph | nd |
| MC/8/31 | Letter from Josh [Joseph] Baxendell, Cheetam Hill, Manchester, to Lieut-General Edward Sabine, President of the Royal Society | 22 March 1867 |
| MC/13/64 | Letter from Osborne Reynolds, Fallowfield, Manchester, to W [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 15 June 1884 |
| MC/13/66 | Letter from Josh [Joseph] Baxendell, 14 Liverpool Road, Birkdale, Southport, to Professor G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society | 16 June 1884 |
| MC/13/111 | Letter from Joseph Baxendell, 14 Liverpool Road, Birkdale, Southport, to Professor G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society | 2 December 1884 |
| MC/13 | Volume 13 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1884 |
| MC/13/112 | Letter from Joseph Baxendell, 14 Liverpool Road, Birkdale, Southport, to Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 3 December 1884 |
| MC/8 | Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1867-1869 |
| PP/5/22 | Paper, '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 Carpenter | 1884 |
| PP/5/22/1 | Manuscript, '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 Carpenter | 1884 |
| MC/14/18 | Letter from Joseph Baxendell, Southport, to the Honorary Secretaries of the Royal Society | 11 February 1885 |
| MC/14 | Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1885-1888 |