John Couch Adams FRS (1819 - 1892)

Born 5 Jun 1819 in Laneast, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Husband of Eliza Bruce — married 2 May 1863 in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland

Died 21 Jan 1892 at age 72 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom

Biography

John Adams FRS is Notable.

John Adams FRS was born in Cornwall, England.

Baptism

John Couch Adams was baptised 20 Jul 1819 at Launceston, Cornwall

Father's Name: Thomas Adams

Mother's Name: Tabitha Knill Adams

Marriage

John Couch Adams wed Eliza Bruce on 02 May 1863 at Bray, Wicklow, Ireland

Father's Name: Thomas Adams

Spouse's Father's Name: Haliday Bruce

Death

John Couch Adams aged 72 died 21 Jan 1892 at Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

Volume: 3B

Page: 431

Obituary

An obituary for John Couch Adams was published 22 Jan 1892 at Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in the Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser

Memorial

John Couch Adams

BIRTH 5 Jun 1819 Laneast, Cornwall Unitary Authority, Cornwall, England

DEATH 21 Jan 1892 (aged 72) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

BURIAL Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

PLOT 2D5

MEMORIAL ID 5935481

Probate

Probate for John Couch Adams was granted 2 Mar 1892 at London, England, United Kingdom

Beneficiary's Name: Eliza Adams

Second Beneficiary's Name: George Adams

Occupation

1881 Profr Of Astronomy & Geometry & M.A.

1891 Saint Director Of Observatory

Discovery of Neptune

John Couch Adams FRS was a British mathematician and astronomer.

His most famous achievement was predicting the existence and position of Neptune, using only mathematics. The calculations were made to explain discrepancies with Uranus's orbit and the laws of Kepler and Newton. At the same time, but unknown to each other, the same calculations were made by Urbain Le Verrier. Le Verrier would send his coordinates to Berlin Observatory astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle, who confirmed the existence of the planet on 23 September 1846, finding it within 1° of Le Verrier's predicted location

In 1852, he published new and accurate tables of the Moon's parallax, which superseded Johann Karl Burckhardt's, and supplied corrections to the theories of Marie-Charles Damoiseau, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana, and Philippe Gustave Doulcet.

Honours

1847 He is reputed to have been offered a knighthood on Queen Victoria's 1847 Cambridge visit but to have declined, either out of modesty, or fear of the financial consequences of such social distinction

1847 Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

1848 Copley medal of the Royal Society

1848 Adams Prize, founded by the members of St John's College, to be given biennially for the best treatise on a mathematical subject

1849 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

1851 and 1874 President of the Royal Astronomical Society (1851–1853 and 1874–1876).

England and Wales Census, 1881

John Couch Adams

Cambridge St Giles, Cambridgeshire, England

Residence Note: Madingley Rd Observatory

John Cronch Adams Head Male 61 Laneast, Cornwall, England

Eliza Adams Wife Female 53 Ireland

Alice Biggs Female 45 Histon, Cambridgeshire, England

Ellen Hamilton Female 31 Ireland

Clara Chandler Female 15 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

Abraham Picking Male 32 Yelling, Huntingdonshire, England

England and Wales Census, 1891

John Crouch Adams

Parish: Saint Giles, Cambridgeshire

John Crouch Adams Head Male 71 Cornwall, England

Eliza Adams Wife Female 63 Ireland

Elizabeth Lloyd Visitor Female 83 Ireland

Eliza Garrod Female 38 Norfolk, England

Elizabeth Syres Female 30 Lancashire, Stucking

Harriott Earle Female 17 Buckinghamshire, England

Arthur Bavister Male 19 Cambridgeshire, England

Sources

• Baptism - "England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQJF-12B : 11 December 2014), John Couch Adams, 20 Jul 1819, Baptism; citing p. 13, Launceston, Cornwall, record group RG4, Public Record Office, London.

• "England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQTY-CXH : 11 December 2014), John Couch Adams, 07 Jun 1819, Baptism; citing p. 110, , record group RG5, Public Record Office, London.

• Marriage - "Ireland Marriages, 1619-1898," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGJX-6N5 : 10 February 2018), John Couch Adams and Eliza Bruce, 02 May 1863; citing 0493,Bray,Wicklow,Ireland, reference , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 101,450.

• "Ireland Civil Registration, 1845-1913," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGYQ-C2Y9 : 12 April 2018), John Couch Adams and Eliza Bruce, Marriage 2 May 1863, Bray, Rathdown, Ireland; citing General Register Office, Dublin; FHL microfilm 101,450.

• Death - "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2JJ5-46V : 31 December 2014), John Couch Adams, 1892; from "England & Wales Deaths, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Death, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.

• Burial - "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVV9-1QV1 : 26 July 2019), John Couch Adams, 1892; Burial, Cambridge, City of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, Ascension Parish Burial Ground; citing record ID 5935481, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

• Obituary - "British Newspaper Archives, Obituaries," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q26M-3B5W : 18 March 2018), John Couch Adams, 22 Jan 1892; citing Obituary, Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, page 0008, Records extracted by FindMyPast and images digitized by FamilySearch. The British Library, London; FHL microfilm 102,001,127.

• Probate - "England and Wales, National Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1957," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7XCD-5QN2 : 27 August 2019), John Couch Adams, 2 Mar 1892; citing Probate, London, England, United Kingdom, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Great Britain.; FHL microfilm .

• "England and Wales Census, 1881," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27C-2C1K : 11 December 2017), John Cronch Adams, Cambridge St Giles, Cambridgeshire, England; from "1881 England, Scotland and Wales Census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing p. 6, Piece/Folio 1670/6, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey; FHL microfilm 101,774,501.

• "England and Wales Census, 1891," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WMXL-82M : 2 May 2019), John Crouch Adams, Saint Ives, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom; from "1891 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 12, Cambridgeshire county, subdistrict, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Couch_Adams