William Henry Wesley

William Henry Wesley (born August 23, 1841 in Stapenhill , Staffordshire , † October 17, 1922 in Burlington House , London ) was an English lithographer .

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William Henry Wesley attended the Grammar School in Ockbrook and received private lessons in German and French. In 1855 his father, himself a lithographer, moved with him to London, where he was tutored by the engraver Williams. He had his first contact with the academic world of London in 1862 when he was introduced to Thomas Henry Huxley , for whom he made numerous drawings. In the same year he became a member of the Anthropological Society of London . More work followed for St. George Mivart , William Henry Flower , John Lubbock , Barnard Davis , Richard Owen, and other biologists .

In 1874 he became Assistant Secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society and held that position for 47 years. There he was also commissioned by Arthur Cowper Ranyard to make drawings of the corona from the 1871 solar eclipse . He did other work in the field of astronomy for Otto Boeddicker, among others , and developed maps of the inner regions of the moon, which were only published in 1935 by Mary Adela Blagg and Karl Müller .

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literature

Edward Ball Knobel : William Henry Wesley . In: FJM Stratton , HS Jones , J. Jackson (Eds.): The Observatory . A Monthly Review of Astronomy. Vol. XLV. Taylor and Francis, London 1922, p. 354–355 , bibcode : 1922Obs .... 45..354. (English, with portrait ).
Herbert Hall Turner : William Henry Wesley . Obituary. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . Vol. 83, no. 4. Royal Astronomical Society, London 1922, p. 255-259 , bibcode : 1923MNRAS..83..255. (English, oxfordjournals.org [PDF; accessed on October 28, 2016]).

Individual evidence

↑ HP Hollis: The Decade 1870-1880 . In: Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer , Herbert Hall Turner (ed.): History of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1820–1920 . Royal Astronomical Society, London 1923, pp. 187 (English, archive.org - Reprint: Cambridge University Press, New York 2014, ISBN 978-1-108-06860-4 ).

Web links

Commons : William Henry Wesley - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

William Henry Wesley in the Database of Scientific Illustrators at the University of Stuttgart

personal data
SURNAME	Wesley, William Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 23, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stapenhill , Staffordshire
DATE OF DEATH	October 17, 1922
Place of death	Burlington House , London

[Hollis1923-1] HP Hollis: The Decade 1870-1880 . In: Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer , Herbert Hall Turner (ed.): History of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1820–1920 . Royal Astronomical Society, London 1923, pp. 187 (English, archive.org - Reprint: Cambridge University Press, New York 2014, ISBN 978-1-108-06860-4 ).