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An [[optics|optical]] phenomenon, the [[Dawes limit]], is named after him. |
An [[optics|optical]] phenomenon, the [[Dawes limit]], is named after him. |
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Dawes married twice. His first wife was Mary Scott née Egerton (1764-1840). They married on 13 January 1824 at Haddenham, Buckinghamshire<ref>Buckinghamshire Marriage Index, findmypast (subscription required)</ref>. She was the widow of his tutor, [[Thomas Scott (commentator)|Thomas Scott]]<ref name="odnb" />. On 28 July 1842 Dawes married Ann Welsby née Coupland (1805-1860)<ref name="odnb">Marriott, R A, [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/7337 Dawes, William Rutter (1799–1868)] ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (via libraries)</ref>. She was the widow of Ormskirk solicitor John Welsby (1800-1839)<ref name="odnb" /> whom she had married on 16 January 1824<ref>England Marriages 1538-1973, findmypast (subscription required)</ref>. |
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== Selected writings == |
== Selected writings == |
William Rutter Dawes
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A photograph, c. 1863
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Born | (1799-03-19)19 March 1799 |
Died | 15 February 1868(1868-02-15) (aged 68) |
Citizenship | English |
Awards | Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1855) |
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Fields | Astronomy |
William Rutter Dawes (19 March 1799 – 15 February 1868) was an English astronomer.
Dawes was born at Christ's Hospital[1] then in the City of London (it moved to Horsham, West Sussex in 1902),[2] the son of William Dawes, also an astronomer, and Judith Rutter.[3]
Dawes was a clergyman who made extensive measurements of double stars as well as observations of planets. He was a friend of William Lassell. He was nicknamed "eagle eye". He set up his private observatory at his home in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire. One of his telescopes, an eight-inch (200mm) aperture refractor by Cooke, survives at the Cambridge Observatory where it is known as the Thorrowgood Telescope.
He made extensive drawings of Mars during its 1864 opposition. In 1867, Richard Anthony Proctor made a map of Mars based on these drawings.
He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1855.
Dawes craters on the Moon and Dawes crater on Mars are named after him, as is a gap within Saturn's C Ring.
Anoptical phenomenon, the Dawes limit, is named after him.
Dawes married twice. His first wife was Mary Scott née Egerton (1764-1840). They married on 13 January 1824 at Haddenham, Buckinghamshire[4]. She was the widow of his tutor, Thomas Scott[5]. On 28 July 1842 Dawes married Ann Welsby née Coupland (1805-1860)[5]. She was the widow of Ormskirk solicitor John Welsby (1800-1839)[5] whom she had married on 16 January 1824[6].
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