Frederick Hendriks collection, 1709-1891.

Institute of Actuaries (Great Britain)

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Baker, David Erskine, 1730-1767

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Epithet: writer on drama British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000677.0x00017c ...

Chappell, William Johnson

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Epithet: showman British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001303.0x0002af Epithet: of Add MS 38789 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001303.0x0002ad ...

Globe Insurance Company

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Galloway, Thomas, 1796-1851

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Engelbach, Francis A.

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Hardy, William, Sir, 1807-1887

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Montyon, M. de (Antoine Jean Baptiste Robert Auget), 1733-1820

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Swinden, Jan Hendrik ˜vanœ 1746-1823

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Baily, Francis, 1774-1844

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In 1795 he went to America and had some adventures. Returning in 1798 he became a London stockbroker and published successful works on annuities and assurances. He then turned his attention to astronomy and in 1825 retired from business. He greatly advanced astronomy by his revision of star catalogs, his simplified tables for reduction of aberration, mutation, etc. He reformed the Nautical Almanac. In 1843 he received the Astronomical Society's gold medal for his determination of the weight of t...

Hendriks, Frederick, 1897-1915.

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Biographical note: Statistician. From the description of Frederick Hendriks collection, 1709-1891. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86159073 ...

Gauss, Carl Friedrich, 1777-1855.

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Gauss was a German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. From the guide to the Family papers, 1845-1925., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) German mathematician (mathematics, mathematical physics, astronomy, geophysics). Studied: Collegium Carolinum (Brunswick) 1792-1795; University of Göttingen 1795-1798; private researcher 1898-1806; University of Göttingen 1807 Director of Observatory and o. professor of mathematics. From th...

Gompertz, Benjamin, 1779-1865

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Frend, William, 1757-1841

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Epithet: actuary, of the Rock Life Assurance Co British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000301.0x0000e1 Epithet: mathematician British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000301.0x0000e3 William Frend (1757-1841) was born on 22 Nov. 1757 at Canterbury. He was educated at the King's School in Canterbury until 1771, before becoming a a minor pensio...

Woolhouse, S. B.

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Morgan, William, 1750-1833

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Twisden, John F.

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Farr, William, 1807-1883

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William Farr, 1807-1883, was born in Kenley, Shropshire. At the age of two, he was effectively adopted by a local squire, Joseph Pryce, who paid for Farr's education. From 1826 to 1828, Farr worked as a dresser in the infirmary at Shrewsbury and studied medicine with a doctor there. On Pryce's death in 1828, Farr received a legacy that enabled him to pursue his studies in Paris and Switzerland. In 1831, Farr returned to Shrewsbury to work as an unqualified locum before studying at University Col...

Jellicoe, Charles.

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Playfair, John, 1748-1819

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Libri, Guillaume, 1803-1869

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French mathematician and book thief. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Sorbonne, to a colleague, 1838 May 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270591230 ...