John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley

The Lord Wrottesley
FRS FRAS
Born(1798-08-05)5 August 1798
near Wolverhampton
Died27 October 1867(1867-10-27) (aged 69)
NationalityBritish
AwardsGold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1839)
Scientific career
Fieldsastronomy
28th President of the Royal Society
In office
1854–1858
Preceded byWilliam Parsons
Succeeded byBenjamin Collins Brodie

John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley FRS FRAS (5 August 1798 – 27 October 1867) was an English astronomer.[1][2]

Wrottesley Hall, family mansion
  1. ^ Armitage, J. (2006). "Lord John, 2nd Baron Wrottesley and the Wrottesley Hall Observatory". The Antiquarian Astronomer. 3. Society for the History of Astronomy: 5–10. Bibcode:2006AntAs...3....5A.
  2. ^ "John, Second Baron Wrottesley". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 28 (4). Royal Astronomical Society: 64–68. 1868. Retrieved 18 November 2015.