Thomas Hornsby DD, FRS (bef. 1733 - 1810)

Born before 27 Aug 1733 in Durham, County Durham, England

Descendants

Died 11 Apr 1810 after age 76 in The Observatory, Oxford, England

Biography

Thomas Hornsby DD, FRS is Notable.

Thomas Hornsby DD, FRS was born in County Durham, England.

Thomas Hornsby, (1733–1810), astronomer, the son of Thomas Hornsby (bap. 1704, d. 1771), an apothecary and later alderman, and his wife, Thomasine Forster, née Coulson (bap. 1705, d. 1775), was baptized in the parish of St Nicholas, Durham, on 27 August 1733.
Having matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on 1 December 1749, he graduated BA in 1753 and MA in 1757, and was elected fellow in 1760. He established his own observatory in the college and spent the rest of his life in Oxford, where he acquired a DD by diploma in 1785.
In 1764 Hornsby's observations of the solar eclipse of 1 April were read and the following year a paper on the then forthcoming transit of Venus, in which he recommended sites for observing it.
Hornsby died in Oxford on 11 April 1810, and was buried at St Giles' there on 19 April.

Sources

• LDS Baptizm
  
  

See also:

• Wikipedia: Thomas Hornsby
• Wikidata: Item Q2092570, en:Wikipedia
• ODNB