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Dawes was born at [[Christ's Hospital]]<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0029//0000116.000.html |title = MNRAS..29 Page 116}}</ref> then in the [[City of London]] (it moved to [[Horsham District|Horsham]], [[West Sussex]] in 1902),<ref>[https://www.chmuseum.org.uk/ Christ's Hospital Museum] Retrieved 15 October 2021</ref> the son of [[William Dawes (Royal Marine officer)|William Dawes]], also an astronomer, and Judith Rutter.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers |last=Hockey |first=Thomas |date=2009 |publisher=[[Springer Publishing]] |isbn=978-0-387-31022-0 |accessdate=22 August 2012 |url=http://www.springerreference.com/docs/html/chapterdbid/58344.html}}</ref> He qualified as a doctor in 1825. On 29 October 1828 he was ordained pastor at an Independent chapel in Burscough Street, [[Ormskirk]], Lancashire<ref name="nightingale">Nightingale, Benjamin, ''Lancashire nonconformity, or, Sketches, historical & descriptive, of the Congregational and old Presbyterian churches in the county''. John Heywood, 1890-1893, p[https://archive.org/details/lancashirenoncon04nighuoft/page/200/mode/2up 200-2]</ref> |
Dawes was born at [[Christ's Hospital]]<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0029//0000116.000.html |title = MNRAS..29 Page 116}}</ref> then in the [[City of London]] (it moved to [[Horsham District|Horsham]], [[West Sussex]] in 1902),<ref>[https://www.chmuseum.org.uk/ Christ's Hospital Museum] Retrieved 15 October 2021</ref> the son of [[William Dawes (Royal Marine officer)|William Dawes]], also an astronomer, and Judith Rutter.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers |last=Hockey |first=Thomas |date=2009 |publisher=[[Springer Publishing]] |isbn=978-0-387-31022-0 |accessdate=22 August 2012 |url=http://www.springerreference.com/docs/html/chapterdbid/58344.html}}</ref> He qualified as a doctor in 1825. On 29 October 1828 he was ordained pastor at an Independent chapel in Burscough Street, [[Ormskirk]], Lancashire,<ref name="nightingale">Nightingale, Benjamin, ''Lancashire nonconformity, or, Sketches, historical & descriptive, of the Congregational and old Presbyterian churches in the county''. John Heywood, 1890-1893, p[https://archive.org/details/lancashirenoncon04nighuoft/page/200/mode/2up 200-2]</ref> formerly part of a silk factory.<ref name="nightingale" /> Dawes resigned as pastor in December 1837 due to ill health.<ref name="nightingale" /> |
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==Astronomy== |
==Astronomy== |
William Rutter Dawes
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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] He qualified as a doctor in 1825. On 29 October 1828 he was ordained pastor at an Independent chapel in Burscough Street, Ormskirk, Lancashire,[4] formerly part of a silk factory.[4] Dawes resigned as pastor in December 1837 due to ill health.[4]
Dawes 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, Hopefield House, built 1856-7[5]inHaddenham, 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 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1830 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1865.
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.[6] She was the widow of his tutor, Thomas Scott.[7] On 28 July 1842 Dawes married Ann Welsby née Coupland (1805-1860).[7] She was the widow of Ormskirk solicitor John Welsby (1800-1839)[7] whom she had married on 16 January 1824.[8]
William Rutter Dawes' grave, St Mary's Church, Haddenham, Buckinghamshire. | |
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REV DR WILLIAM RUTTER DAWES FRAS FRS
BORN 19 MAR 1799 DIED 15 FEB 1868 |
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