| Abbott, John |
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? |
Tyndall’s friend from the Ordnance Survey |
| Airy, Sir George Biddell |
1801 |
1892 |
Astronomer Royal at the Greenwich Observatory 1835–1881 |
| Allen (née Smith), Margaret |
1828 |
? |
Wife of Robert Allen |
| Allen, Robert Copeland |
1823 |
? |
Civil assistant on the Ordnance Survey of Ireland |
| Anderson, Charles |
1790 |
1866 |
Laboratory and lecture assistant at the Royal Institution from 1832–1866 |
| Babbage, Charles |
1791 |
1871 |
Mathematician, philosopher, and inventor |
| Baker, William |
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| Ball, John |
1818 |
1889 |
Politician and glaciologist |
| Ballin, Hermine |
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| Balmat, Auguste |
1808 |
1862 |
Tyndall’s guide in the Alps in 1857 |
| Banister, Frederick Dale |
1823 |
1897 |
Friend of Tyndall |
| Barlow, John |
1789 |
1869 |
Reverend and Secretary of the Royal Institute from 1843-1860 |
| Barndard, Richard Boyle |
1787 |
1850 |
Son of Francis, Earl of Bandon. Patron of Tyndall |
| Baskin, Robert |
? |
? |
Civil assistant on the Ordnance Survey |
| Bates, David |
? |
? |
Civil assistant on the Ordnance Survey |
| Bence Jones, Henry |
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| Bence Jones, Millicent |
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| Bevington, James Buckingham |
1804 |
1892 |
Quaker leather merchant |
| Bloomfield, Robert (Bob) |
? |
? |
Civil assistant on the Ordnance Survey |
| Booth, Francis |
? |
1853 |
Friend of Tyndall and Hirst |
| Booth, Sarah |
? |
1856 |
Widowed mother of Frank Booth. Hirst supported her when Frank died. Tyndall acted as intermediary |
| Breda, Jan |
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| Brewster, Sir David |
1781 |
1868 |
Scottish mathematician and astronomer. Principal of St Andrews University (1838–1859) and University of Edinburgh (1859–1869) |
| Bromeis, J.M. |
? |
? |
Friend of Tyndall |
| Buff, H |
? |
? |
Professor |
| Busk, Ellen |
? |
? |
Wife of George Busk |
| Busk, George |
1807 |
1886 |
Zoologist and palaeontologist. |
| Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard |
1811 |
1899 |
German chemist, professor of Chemistry at Marburg then Heidelberg |
| Buxton, Charles |
1821 |
1872 |
Indepedent Liberal politician |
| Bryn, James |
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| Carlyle, Mary |
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| Carlyle, Thomas |
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| Carroll, Thomas Harris |
? |
1861 |
Editor of the Carlow Sentinel |
| Chadwick, John C. |
? |
? |
Civil assistant on the Ordnance Survey |
| Christie, Samuel |
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| Church, Arthur H. |
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| Clark, Latimer |
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| Clausius, John |
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| Clausius, Rudolph |
1822 |
1888 |
German mathematician and physicist, made important contributions to thermodynamics |
| Cook, John Douglas |
1808 |
1868 |
First editor of the Saturday Review (1855) |
| Cooke, W. |
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| Cooper, White |
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| Conwill, John |
1802 |
1880 |
Tyndall’s academic mentor |
| Coxe, Sir James |
1811 |
1878 |
MD FRSE. Scottish physician. Knighted 1863. Made Commissioner of General Board of Lunacy for Scotland in 1857 |
| Coxe (née Cumming), Lady Mary Anne |
1806 |
1875 |
Correspondent of Tyndall’s. Married Scottish Physician, James Coxes in 1841 |
| Craven, James |
1829 |
1886 |
Trained as a surveyor in Halifax |
| Cuddy, Martin (Blackthron) |
? |
? |
Civil assistant on the Ordnance Survey |
| Cumming, Aexander |
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| Cumming, Constace |
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| Cumming, G. |
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| Curtis, Richard |
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| Darwin, Charles |
1809 |
1882 |
Naturalist and geologist |
| Davy, John |
? |
1843 |
Civil assistant on the Ordnance Survey; Son of James Davy |
| Dawes, Dean Robert |
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| Day, George |
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| de la Rive, Augustus Arthur |
1801 |
1873 |
Professor of natural philosophy at the Academy of Geneva |
| de la Rue, Warren |
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| de Lamartine, R. |
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| Debus, Heinrich |
1824 |
1915 |
German-born chemist, who taught at Queenwood College and the Royal Naval College |
| Delabeche, Henry |
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| Despretz, César-Mansuète |
1791 |
1863 |
Chemist |
| Dove, Heinrich Wilhelm |
1803 |
1879 |
Physicist |
| Drummond, M.E. |
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| du Bois-Reymond, Emil |
1818 |
1896 |
German anatomist and physiologist |
| Duboscq, Louis Jules |
1817 |
1886 |
Optician and instrument maker |
| Edgeworth, J.B. |
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| Edmondson (née Singleton), Anne |
1799 |
1863 |
Daughter of William Singleton and sister of Josiah Singleton |
| Edmondson, George |
1798 |
1863 |
Quaker educationalist, advisor to Tsar Alexander I, header teacher at Queenwood College |
| Ernst, G. |
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| Evans, Philip Deighton |
1822 |
1906 |
Surveyor |
| Faraday, Michael |
1791 |
1867 |
Natural philosopher and the Fullerian professor of chemistry at the Royal Institute |
| Faraday (née Barnard), Sarah |
1800 |
1879 |
Wife of Michael Faraday |
| Flight, Walter |
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| Forbes, Edward |
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| Forbes, James David |
1809 |
1868 |
Chair of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh. Studied behaviour of glaciers |
| Foy, Thomas M. |
1814 |
? |
Surveyor |
| Francis, William |
1817 |
1904 |
Illegitimate son of publisher Richard Taylor. Partner within Taylor & Francis |
| Frankland, Edward (Trismegistus) |
1825 |
1899 |
Chemist and close friend of John Tyndall |
| Galbraith, Joseph Allen |
1819 |
1890 |
Professor of natural and experimental philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin |
| Gassiot, John Peter |
1797 |
1877 |
Wine merchant. Researched electricity |
| Gerling, Christian Ludwig |
1788 |
1864 |
German physicist and astronomer |
| Ginty, William Gilbert |
1820 |
1866 |
Irish civil engineer |
| Gladstone, John Hall |
1827 |
1902 |
British Chemist |
| Glaisher, James |
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| Gore, George |
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| Grailich, Wilhelm Joseph |
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| Grey, George |
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| Grieve, Tommy |
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| Grove, William Robert |
1811 |
1896 |
Welsh lawyer. Researched fuel cells |
| Haas, John |
1828 |
? |
Teacher of modern languages and drawing at Queenwood College |
| Harrison, James |
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| Haughton, Samuel |
1821 |
1897 |
Irish mathematician, geologist, anatomist, and physiologist |
| Hawker, Charles |
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| Hawtrey, S. |
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| Hayran, Jim |
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| Hebdon, John |
? |
? |
Friend of Tyndall |
| Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von |
1821 |
1894 |
German physicist and physician |
| Henslow, J.S. |
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| Herschel, John Frederick William |
1792 |
1871 |
First baronet, astroner, and mathematician |
| Hessel, Johann Friedrich Christian |
1796 |
1872 |
German crystallographer and mineralogist |
| Higginson, Thomas Charles |
1821 |
1898 |
Major in the Royal Artillery |
| Hirst, Anna (née Martin) |
1831 |
1857 |
Wife of Thomas Archer Hirst |
| Hirst, Thomas Archer |
1830 |
1892 |
Yorkshire educator and mathematician |
| Holmes, J |
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| Hooker (née Henslow), Frances Harriet |
1825 |
1874 |
Wife of Joseph Hooker and daughter of Cambridge botanist, John Steven Henslow |
| Hooker, Joseph Dalton |
1817 |
1911 |
British botanist, specialized in taxonomy |
| Hopkins, William |
1793 |
1866 |
Geologist and mathematician |
| Hughes, G.W. |
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| Humboldt, Alexander |
1769 |
1859 |
German naturalist and explorer |
| Huxley, Henrietta |
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Wife of T.H. Huxley |
| Huxley, Thomas Henry |
1825 |
1895 |
British zoologist, educator, and science popularizer |
| Jewsbury, Geraldine |
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| Joule, James Prescott |
1818 |
1889 |
Physicist |
| Knoblauch, Karl Hermann |
1820 |
1895 |
German physicist |
| Kohlrausch, Rudolph Hermann Arndt |
1809 |
1858 |
German physicist |
| Kupper, Conrad |
? |
? |
German friend of Tyndall |
| Lancaster, Jean |
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| Lardner, Dionysius |
1793 |
1859 |
Irish astronomer, editor, and popularizer of science |
| Latimer, George |
? |
? |
Civil assistant on the Ordnance Survey |
| Lees, Frederic Richard |
1815 |
1897 |
Promoter of teetotalism and Owenite socialism |
| Leyser, I.M. |
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| Lilly, J. |
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| Lissajour, J. |
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| Lyell, Charles |
1797 |
1875 |
Scottish geologist and lawyer |
| Lyell, Mary |
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| Mackay, Charles |
1814 |
1889 |
Scottish author, journalist and editor |
| Magnus, Heinrich Gustav |
1802 |
1870 |
German chemist and physicist |
| Marquis, William |
? |
? |
Civil assistant on the Ordnance Survey |
| Martin, Robert |
? |
? |
Civil assistant on the Ordnance Survey |
| Mathews, William |
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| Matteucci, Carlo |
1811 |
1868 |
Italian chemist, physicist, physiologist, and politician |
| Maxwell, James Clark |
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| McAssey, Debbie |
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| McClintock, Henry |
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| McLachlan, Archibald |
? |
? |
Civil assistant on the Ordnance Survey |
| Moigno, François-Napoléon-Marie |
1804 |
1884 |
French author, Catholic priest, and physicist |
| Moseley, Henry |
1801 |
1872 |
English mathematician and educationalist |
| Müller, Johann Heinrich Jacob |
1809 |
1875 |
German physicist and mathematician |
| Murray, John |
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| Murray, William |
? |
? |
Civil assistant on the Ordnance Survey |
| Nichol, John Pringle |
1804 |
1859 |
Scottish educator |
| Normandy, A. |
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| Owen, Richard |
1804 |
1892 |
English atomist and palaeontologist. Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons |
| Payne, Joseph |
? |
? |
Civil assistant on the Ordnance Survey |
| Payne, Maria |
? |
? |
Tyndall’s cousin |
| Peel, Robert |
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| Phillips, John |
1800 |
1874 |
English geologist and paleontologist |
| Plateau, Joseph |
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| Playfair, Jean A. |
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Wife of Lyon Playfair |
| Playfair, Lyon |
1818 |
1898 |
Chemist and politician |
| Plücker, Julius |
1801 |
1868 |
German experimental physicist and mathematician |
| Poggendorff, Johann Christian |
1796 |
1877 |
German chemist, editor, and physicist |
| Pollock (née Creed), Juliet |
1819 |
1899 |
Wife of barrister and author, William Frederick Pollock. Daughter of the vicar of Corse |
| Pollock, W.F. |
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| Pridie, W.R. |
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| Ramsay, Andrew |
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| Redgrave, Richard |
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| Reich, Ferdinand |
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| Rieß (Riess), Peter Theophil |
1804 |
1883 |
German physicist |
| Roberts, John George (Sam Weller) |
? |
? |
Civil assistant on the Ordnance Survey |
| Robinson, T.R. |
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| Ruhmkorff, Heinrich Daniel |
1803 |
1877 |
German engineer and instrument maker |
| Sabine, Edward |
1788 |
1883 |
Anglo-Irish physicist |
| Savage, Robert |
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| Sayers, Edmond Bob |
? |
? |
Civil assistant on the Ordnance Survey |
| Schulze, O. |
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| Singleton, J. |
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| Sinnett, James |
1807 |
1844 |
Skilled draughtsman; enlisted in Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners |
| Smith, Fanny |
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| Snow Harris, William |
1791 |
1867 |
Doctor and researcher of electricity |
| Sorby, Henry Clifton |
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| Stegmann, Friedrich Ludwig |
1813 |
1891 |
German mathematician |
| Steuart (née Duckett), Elizabeth Dawson |
1802 |
1893 |
Patron of Tyndall |
| Stokes, George Gaberiel |
1819 |
1903 |
English mathematician and physicist |
| Sylvester, James Joseph |
1814 |
1897 |
English mathematician |
| Thomson, William |
1824 |
1907 |
Irish-Scottish inventor, mathematician, and physicist |
| Tidmarsh, Christine |
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| Tidmarsh, John Francis |
1824 |
1906 |
Close colleague and friend of Tyndall |
| Tidmarsh, Mary |
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| Todd, John |
? |
? |
Civil assistant on the Ordnance Survey |
| Trevelyan, Arthur |
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| Tyndale, George Hector |
1821 |
1889 |
American businessman and Tyndall’s cousin |
| Tyndall, Emma |
1817 |
1904 |
Tyndall’s sister |
| Tyndall, John, Sr. |
1792 |
1847 |
Tyndall’s father |
| Tyndall (née McAssey), Sarah |
1793 |
1867 |
Tyndall’s mother |
| Tyndall, William |
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| Wartmann, Elie-François |
1817 |
1886 |
Swiss archaeologist and physicist |
| Weber, Wilhelm Eduard |
1804 |
1891 |
German physicist |
| Weld, C.K. |
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| Whewell, W. |
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| Wiedemann, Gustav Heinrich |
1826 |
1899 |
German editor and physicist |
| Witt, Henry M. |
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| Wright, Gustavus Hamilton |
1812 |
1872 |
Civil assistant on the Ordnance Survey |
| Wright, William |
1818 |
1892 |
Close friend of Tyndall |
| Wynne (née Osborne), Anne |
1808 |
1864 |
Wife of George Wynne. Daughter of Sir Daniel Toler Osborne |
| Wynne, George |
1804 |
1890 |
Irish member of the Royal Engineers |
| Wynne, R.E. |
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| Young (née Tyndall), Emma |
1825 |
? |
Tyndall’s cousin |
Tyndall Correspondence Project 