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p@rsons_world of Famous Lincolnshire people...
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Henry Andrews Joseph Banks George Bass George Boole Thomas Boor Crosby Francis Dashwood John Dee |
Matthew Flinders Michael Foale Richard Fox John Franklin Robert Grossteste John Harrison Thomas Little Heath |
George Herbert Ashton Lever Isaac Newton Maurice Johnson Thomas Paine William Paley |
Sir Wiliam Robertson Samuel Roberts Charlotte Angas Scott John Smith William Stukeley Alfred Lord Tennyson Hereward the Wake |
Henry Andrews
1743–1820. Astronomer. Calculator for Nautical Almanack and "Moore's"
Born: Frieston, near Grantham ... err not Freiston near Boston! Sorry!
Link down? Would anyone like to write me something?
Sir Joseph Banks
1743–1820. Explorer, Naturalist. President of The Royal Society.
Resident of Revesby Abbey, near Skegness
I have encountered Banks' influence as a biologist and agriculturist; in the Caribbean, Iceland, South Pacific and West Africa; at the Natural History Museum, Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, Lincoln Cathedral and in The Fens, where he was a driving force in drainage projects and the straightening of the River Witham. Sir Joseph was elected President of the Royal Society in 1778. His estate at Revesby is said to contain some rare specimens which may owe their discovery to Banks. He was very influential in Lincolnshire, being involved, among other things, with schemes for the Horncastle and Sleaford Navigations. His town house in Horncastle now hosts shops and a branch of Lloyds TSB Bank!
Banks asked that his burial should be in the most private manner in the church or churchyard of the parish in which he happended to die, that his relatives
should "spare themselves the affliction of attending the ceremony" and he
earnestly requested "that they will not erect any monument to my memory."
With this in mind, further comment is limited to the following links.
George Bass
1771–1803 Explorer, naval surgeon and naturalist.
Born: Aswarby, Lincolnshire
Would anyone like to write me something?
Apart from the memorial in Boston, and a church window or two, there's very little about him locally.
George Boole
1830–1916. Mathematician and Philosopher
Born: Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Today, George Boole is rightly regarded as one of the founding fathers of computing and information technology. George Boole is the unsung hero of the Information Revolution. It was his genius that set the scene for all the technological innovation that we take for granted today, from digital recordings and television through to the Internet itself. Eileen Harrison's article sets the record straight.
Sir Thomas Boor Crosby
1830–1916. Doctor
Born: Gosberton.
Lord Mayor of London 1911. He was responsible for setting up the Titanic Trust
which raised funds for the survivors and relatives. He came from Gosberton
and was also a well respected Doctor.
Sir Francis Dashwood
15th Baron Le Despencer 1708–1781
Chancellor of the Exchequer; founder of the Hell-fire Club.
Resident of Dunston Heath near Lincoln
Would anyone like to write me something on his life in Lincolnshire?
Dr John Dee
1527–1608. Mathematician and Alchemist
Rector of Long Leadenham in Lincolnshire, 1566-to end of life
Free-lance advisor to the Crown on astrological events, and also on calendar reform. He wrote the Perfect Arte of Navigation, developed what he called the paradoxal compass and/or paradoxal chart, and was reputed to be the central figure in the development of scientific cartography in England.
Matthew Flinders
1774–1814. English navigator
Born: Donington, Lincolnshire
Appointed a naval officer in Australia, he undertook to explore this great unknown continent and in particular to sail round it. From 1795 to 1799 he explored the coast south of Port Jackson and circumnavigated Tasmania.
Between Australia and Tasmania he discovered a previously unknown strait and called it Bass Strait after his companion, George Bass. In 1801 in recognition of his merit, the Admiralty put him in command of the Investigator which was to undertake the exploration of the Australian coasts.
Dr Michael Foale CBE
NASA Astronaut
Born: January 6, 1957, in Louth.
The most recent addition to this list, Foale can trace the foundations of his career to many of his predecessors listed here!
Michael Foale received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside [17th July 2000]
and was awarded the CBE in the New Year Honours List, January 2005.
Bishop Richard Fox
1448–1528 Bishop of Winchester and Henry VII's "Right-hand Man".
Born: Ropsley, Lincolnshire
Sir John Franklin
1786–1847. English rear-admiral and explorer
Born: Spilsby, Lincolnshire
After accompanying Flinders on his voyages along the Australian coasts, he distinguished himself at Trafalgar in 1805 and was wounded at the battle of New Orleans in the war with the United States (1812–1815). In 1818 he began his career as an explorer with a search for the North-East Passage to the north of Spitsbergen, Greenland.
Bishop Robert Grossteste
c.1168–1253. Bishop of Lincoln.
One of the most learned men of the Middle Ages. Link down?
Grossteste worked on geometry, optics and astronomy. In optics he experimented with mirrors and with lenses. He believed that experimentation must be used to verify a theory by testing its consequences.
John Harrison
1642–1727. Clockmaker
Lincolnshire's inventor of the chronometer in 1759.
Without accurate measurement of time, navigators found the calculation of longitude impossible.The measurement of Longitude was made possible by the development of an accurate maritime chronometer by the Lincolnshire-based watchmaker, John Harrison of Barrow on Humber, 1693 -1776.
Sir Thomas Little Heath
1861–1940. Mathematician
Born: 5th October. Barnetby le Wold, Lincoln, England
Died: 16th March. Ashtead, Surrey, England
George Herbert
1593–1633. Poet and Theologian
On July 5th, 1626 installed (by proxy!) as a Canon of Lincoln Cathedral with the prebend of Leighton Ecclesia.
"The itch of disputing is the scab of the church."
Maurice Johnson
1688–1755. Founder of the
Spalding Gentlemen?s Society
Born: Ayscoughfee Hall, Spalding
Sir Ashton Lever
1729–1788. Naturalist
Sometime of Grantham.
Sir Isaac Newton
1642–1727. Scientist
Born: Woolsthorpe Manor, near Colsterworth
It was here, while staying to escape the plague of 1665 in Cambridge, that he carried out his ground-breaking work on the laws of gravity, differential calculus, and the refraction of light.
Thomas Paine
1737–1809. Revolutionary and journalist
Apprentice in Grantham 1762, Exciseman in Alford 8th August 1764 to 29th August 1765!
Thomas Paine, professional revolutionary, was one of the first to use media as a powerful weapon against an entrenched array of monarchies, feudal lords, dictators, and repressive social structures. He invented contemporary political journalism, creating almost by himself a mass reading-public aware for the first time of its right to encounter controversial opinions and to participate in politics.
The only man to rise "From Private to Field Marshall" and not to be confused with the Scot of the same name.
William Paley
c.1743–1805. Subdean of Lincoln.
English theologian, born Peterborough 1743; died Lincoln May 25, 1805.
He was given the subdeanery of Lincoln in 1795 and transferred his residence to Lincoln shortly before his death.
His "Divine Watchmaker" concept of a complex, perfected organism dropping suddenly amidst foreign surroundings, stimulated the counter hypotheses of natural selection, adaptation to environment and the theory of evolution as a whole.
Samuel Roberts
1827–1913. Mathematician
Born: 15th December. Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England
Died: London, England
Sir William Robert Robertson
1860–1933. Field Marshall. 1st Baronet of Beaconsfield.
Born Welboun, Lincolnshire.
Memorial in Lincoln Cathedral.
The school at Leadenham is named after him.
Charlotte Angas Scott
1858–1931. Mathematician
Born: 8th June. Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Died: 10th November. Cambridge, England
Miss Scott was a geometer who whenever possible brought to analytical geometry the full resources of pure geometrical reasoning.
Scott continued research at Girton on algebraic geometry under Cayley's supervision receiving her doctorate in 1885. In this
year Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, United States opened. On Cayley's recommendation Scott was appointed there and
became the first head of their mathematics department.
Women In Math Project directed by Marie Vitulli, Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403
This Web site consists of an extensive collection of biographies on women mathematicians, as well as links to various history of math sites and short descriptions of what is available at those sites.
John Smith
1579–1631. English navigator and colonizer
Born: Willoughby, Lincolnshire
He made three expeditions to Virginia, founded Jamestown which became the chief town of the colony and had numerous encounters with the Indians. In one of these he was taken prisoner and would have been killed but for the intervention of Pocahontas, the daughter of a tribal chief. In 1608 he led expeditions up the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers and explored the Chesapeake Bay. In 1614 he was the man who named "New England". He became a legendary figure through his many adventures.
William Stukeley
1687–1765. Antiquarian
Born: Holbeach, Lincolnshire
Stukeley gave modern archaeologists the first written understanding of the true use of Stonehenge when he plotted key points of reference indicating the summer and winter solstice, as well as other key markers.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1809–1883. Poet and Theologian
Born in Lincolnshire. A statue of Tennyson stands to the northeast of Lincoln Cathedral adjacent to the Chapter House and Medieval Library.
Hereward the Wake
Anti-Norman dissident, freedom fighter and hero!
11th Century
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