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Authorised form of namePasley; Sir; Charles William (1780 - 1861)
Dates1780 - 1861
NationalityBritish
Place of birthEskdalemuir, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Date of birth08 September 1780
Place of deathHis residence, 12 Norfolk Crescent, Hyde Park, London
Date of death19 April 1861
ActivityEducation:
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; DCL (1841, Oxford)
Career:
Entered the Royal Artillery, but transferred to the Royal Engineers; Lieutenant (1799); Director of the Establishment for field instruction (1812-1841); Lieutenant Colonel (1814); Colonel (1831); Major General (1841); Lieutenant General (1851); General (1860)
Honours:
CB 1831; KCB 1846
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/03/1816
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1862-1863 vol 12 pp xx-xxv
References:
Olwyn Mary Blouet, 'Sir William Reid, FRS, 1791-1858: Governor of Bermuda, Barbados and Malta' in NR 1985-86 vol 40 pp 169-191
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/183149066747465602800
CodeNA7216
Archives associated with this Fellow
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MC/5/267Letter from C W [Charles William] Pasley, Somerset House, to C R [Charles Richard] Weld, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]1 December 1856
MC/6/98Letter from C W [Charles William] Pasley, 12 Norfolk Crescent, to C R [Charles Richard] Weld, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]2 July 1860
IM/Maull/003446Pasley, Sir Charles Williamnd
EC/1815/31Pasley, Sir Charles William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/1/320Letter from Lieutenant Colonel [Charles William] Pasley, Chatham, to Dr. Peter Mark Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society19 July 1831
MC/1Volume 1 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1800-1831
MC/4/345Letter from [Charles William] Pasley, London, to the [Earl of Rosse] President of the Royal Society and to the Council15 April 1850
MC/4Volume 4 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1844-1850
MC/5/107Letter from C W [Charles William] Pasley, 12 Norfolk Crescent, Hyde Park, to the [Earl of Rosse], President of the Royal Society and to the Council28 May 1853
MC/5Volume 5 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1851-1858
AP/14/14Unpublished paper, 'An account of experiments tried at Chatham for the purpose of obtaining an artificial water cement' by C W [Charles William] Pasley5 June 1830
MC/6Volume 6 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1859-1863
AP/15/8Unpublished paper, 'Account of further experiments tried at Chatham, for the purpose of obtaining an artificial water cement' by C W [Charles William] Pasley1 March 1831
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