John William Lubbock, 3rd Baronet

Sir John William Lubbock, 3rd Baronet (born March 26, 1803 in London , † June 21, 1865 in High Elms ) was a British astronomer , physicist , mathematician and banker . He was considered to be a leader in the spread of Laplace's theory of probability in England. He earned services to the development of theory on the tides and to the description of the motion of comets and planets and their perturbations .

Lubbock was the only child of John William Lubbock, 2nd Baronet (1774-1840), whose successor as Baronet he was in 1840, and Mary Entwisle. He married Harriet Hotham on June 29, 1833, with whom he had eleven children, including John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury and Edgar Lubbock .

Lubbock studied from 1821 at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge , where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1825 and a master's degree in 1833 . In 1825 he joined his father's banking house (Lubbock & Co., a predecessor of the Royal Bank of Scotland ). In 1828 he became a member (Fellow) of the Astronomical Society (now the Royal Astronomical Society ), in 1829 a member of the Royal Society , of which he was treasurer and vice president from 1830 to 1835 and from 1838 to 1847. In 1832 Lubbock was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1834 he was awarded the Royal Medal , in 1836 he gave the Bakerian Lecture on the tides in the Port of London , in 1848 he received a medal of recognition from the Royal Astronomical Society . From 1837 to 1842 he served as Vice Chancellor of the University of London , in 1852 as High Sheriff of Kent .

According to him, are Mount Lubbock in the Antarctic and the lunar crater "Lubbock" named.

literature

• Lubbock, John William . In: John Archibald Venn (Ed.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900 , Volume 4 : Kahlenberg – Oyler . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1951, pp. 226 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Anon .: Sir John William Lubbock, Bart. , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 26, p. 118 (obituary)
• Agnes Mary Clerke:  Lubbock, John William . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 34:  Llywd - MacCartney. MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1893, pp 227 - 228 (English).

Web links

Wikisource: John William Lubbock  - Sources and full texts (English)

• Sir John William Lubbock, 3rd Bt. At thepeerage.com
• Publications by JW Lubbock in the Astrophysics Data System

Individual evidence

1. ^ Charles Knight : Biography. Bradbury, Agnew & Co, London 1856–1872, 7 volumes (The English Cyclopaedia, Division III).
2. ^ Robarts, Lubbock & Co - RBS Heritage Hub. In: rbs.com. April 25, 2017, accessed October 28, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter L. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved October 28, 2017 (English). 
4. ↑ Award winners. In: docs.google.com. Retrieved October 28, 2017 . 
5. ^ Gold Medal Winners (PDF, 308 kB) of the Royal Astronomical Society (ras.org.uk); accessed on October 28, 2017.
6. ↑ Mount Lubbock in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System
7. ^ Lubbock in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS