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1822 , July 22 > at the Close in Sahsfbnry , & £ « £ 74 , Mrs . S . Hayter . This worthy lady built an alms-house at Fisherton , for six ' poor 6 ld woriieh , and left by will 1000 / . to different charitable institutions .
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determined titobn coosUucting pue witfi his own haMa , j ^ 'M . lW& . fS& w ' Saturn , ill a five-fdet reflecting telescope of his own making . Stimulated hy this success , he continued to form larger re ^ - Sectors , until he produced one of twenty feet . In 1779 , he beganto examine the heavens star by star , and his Zealand labour were amply rewarded on the 13 th of
March , 1781 , by the discovery of a newprrmary planet , to which he gave the name of Gebrgium Sidus , although It is now more generally denominated Urdnw , and sometimes Herschel , in honour of the disco * rerer . This great discovery fixed his reputation as one of the most eminent astronomers of the age , and secured for
him that royal patronage which enabled him to apply himself entirely to his new pursuit . He now removed to Slough , where he constructed that stupendous telescope , which was a noble monument of his genius , science and perseverance . His numerous subsequent discoveries are recorded in the
transactions of the Royal Society . In his observations and calculations he was assisted throughout by his sister , Miss Caroline Herschel . Jointly with his sister he published , in a distinct form , " Catalogue of Stars , taken from FlamSteed ' s Observations , and not inserted in the British Catalogue , bv William Herschel : to
which is added , a Collection of Errata , that should be noticed iii the same Volume , by Caroline Herschel , " fol ., 1798 . In 1816 , his present Majesty conferred upon him the Guelphic Order of Knighthood . Sir William was , like his nephew , the celebrated Griesbachy an admirable performer on the oboe . He has left one son , a distinguished member of the
University of Cambridge , the inheritor not only of his name but of his genius , who is justly regarded as one of the first mathematicians of the age , to whom , in concert with Mr . Peacock , we are indebted for an improved translation of Lacrdix ' s Elements of the Differential Calculus . His remains were interred in Upton Church , on the 7 th of September .
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Aug . 27 , at Cofyton , Mrs . 'Ann SbAfrttl Her father was for many yeairs a t 5 hief supporter of the Disseffting cause here . Her mother was the daughter of Mr . Levieux , a Protestant ^ of * Uz& 8 , in '* Languedoc , who fled from * the cruel persecu tion under Lewis XIV . - ? * Mn Siade was distinguished for his hospitality to mimer-
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August 9 , at Lathbury , near Newport Pagnell , Bucks , Mansel JDawkins Mansel , Esq ., who destroyed himself with a pistol . He had served the office of High-Sheriff of Bucks , and was for many years an active magistrate of that county . And
on the 24 th , Mrs . Mansel , his widow , who died through grief at his melancholy fate . They have left a family of five children .
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Sir W . Herschel . — 25 , at Sloughy Buck * , in his 84 th year , the distinguished astronomer , Sir Wm . Herschel , Knight Guelph , LL . D ., F . R . S * London and Edinburgh , President Astron . Soc . Lond ., and a member of nearly all the principal scientific bodies of Europe and America . This eminent man was born in Germany , November , 1738 . His father , who was a musician ,
educated his four sons to the same profession , and placed William , at the age of 14 , in the baud of the Hanoverian Foot Guards . Desirous both of improving his circumstances and of rising in his profession , he came over to England in 1757 . Here , after experiencing many difficulties , he was engaged by the Earl
of Darlington to instruct a military band which that nobleman was then forming in the county . of Durham . In consequence of the connexions formed in that part of the . country , he , on the expiration of this engagement , spent several years in the neighbourhood of Leeds , Pontefract , &c , where he distinguished
himself in his profession , and obtained a number of pupils . In 1776 , he was elected organist at Halifax ; a situation which he shortly after relinquished for the more advantageous one of . organist at the Octagon Chapel , at Bath . Notwithstanding his ardent attachment to his profession , he devoted all his leisure to
astronomical studies , to which he was led by having begun a course , of mathematical reading while at Halifax . He applied himself to this new pursuit with all the ardour of genius , and unable , fortunately for himself and the world , to purchase a telescope capable of satisfying him , he
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1822, page 637, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2517/page/53/
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