scholarly journals Norman Lockyer Observatory of the University College of the South West of England, Exeter

Nature ◽  
1948 ◽  
Vol 161 (4100) ◽  
pp. 861-862
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
South West ◽  
University College ◽  
The University

I. Lindemann in Physics

1987 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-189 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Annual Report ◽  
The South ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
South West ◽  
University College ◽  
Holiday Home ◽  
The University

LINDEMANN’S father was of French Alsacian origin and came to England around the time that Germany annexed Alsace-Lorraine in 1871. He married a widow whose first husband had bought ‘Sidholme’, the largest of the Regency villas in the part of Sidmouth (Devon) called Elysian Fields. The house was built in 1826 by the Earl of Buckingham and stands in 14 acres of grounds with 300 different varieties of tree. An addition had soon to be made to the house when the Earl fell out with the local rector and wanted to hold his own services; it became the music room in the Lindemanns’ time and was where Lindemann heard Paderewski play. Lindemann’s father had a laboratory and observatory in the grounds and some of Lindemann’s research was done there. When Mrs Lindemann died in 1927 the house passed to her son by her first marriage and the Lindemanns were distressed that he immediately sold it with the contents, forcing them to move. The observatory was given to the University College of the South West (which became Exeter University) and this was acknowledged in the 5th Annual Report and Prospectus of 1927. An Adam Hilger astronomical spectroscope dating from about 1885 is in a show case at the University and carries the statement ‘This spectroscope was probably used at Sidmouth, where A. F. Lindemann (father of the late Lord Cherwell) had an observatory at his home’. ‘Sidholme’ is now a Methodist Guild holiday home.

A Note on an Arthropod from the South Wales Coalfield

1932 ◽  
Vol 69 (6) ◽  
pp. 275-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Dix ◽  
S. H. Jones
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
Light Blue ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
South Wales ◽  
University College ◽  
The University ◽  
Coal Measures

A SMALL Arthropod was discovered by one of us (S. H. J.) in the course of investigations of the Coal Measures of the area around Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, on the north crop of the South Wales Coalfield. It is preserved in a fine grained, light blue shale from the roof of the Little Vein (lower part of the Pulchra Zone of Davies and Trueman), at the Blaina Colliery, Pantyffnon, about one mile south-west of Ammanford. The specimen is in the collection of the University College of Swansea, No. A. 152.

scholarly journals Sidney George Brown, 1873-1948

1951 ◽  
Vol 7 (20) ◽  
pp. 319-327
Keyword(s):  
Applied Science ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
The South ◽  
Research Department ◽  
Spiritual World ◽  
Endowment Fund ◽  
South West ◽  
University College ◽  
A Site ◽  
The University

After a life of brilliant inventive achievement in the wide field of applied science, S. G. Brown passed quietly into what he believed to be a new spiritual world on the evening of Saturday, 7 August 1948, in the house on Salcombe Hill, Sidmouth, where he went to live upon his retirement in 1945. Sir Norman Lockyer, one of the sixteen leading Fellows of the Society who supported Brown’s certificate of candidature for the Fellowship in 1923, died in the same house in 1920. When Lady Lockyer died there in 1943, she bequeathed her home and its grounds to the Norman Lockyer Observatory Corporation, which had its buildings and great telescopes in domes on a site of 44 acres on the summit of Salcombe Hill. The whole property, with the exception of the Observatory site, was purchased by Mr and Mrs Brown from the Corporation in 1948. He had been a member and benefactor of the Corporation since its formation, and was present with his wife at the Observatory when the buildings and instruments and the freehold site upon which they stand, together with a substantial endowment fund, was transferred to the University College of the South-West, Exeter, as a research department of the College.

scholarly journals Sir Vincent Brian Wigglesworth, C. B. E., 17 April 1899 - 12 February 1994

1996 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 541-553 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
General Practitioner ◽  
Early Death ◽  
The South ◽  
North West ◽  
South West ◽  
Scale Models ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester ◽  
Artistic Talent

On 17 April 1899, in Kirkham, Lancashire, Vincent Brian Wigglesworth was born into a talented and idiosyncratic Victorian family with roots going back to the hamlet of Wigglesworth in the south-west comer of Yorkshire. He was the son of Sydney Wigglesworth, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Captain R.A.M.C., and Margaret Emmeline (née Pierce). Sydney Wigglesworth was a general practitioner but also an amateur mechanic and inventor who had studied engineering at Owens College (later the University of Manchester) before changing to medicine. He made scale models of locomotives and was a passionate pioneer motorist. Margaret Pierce came from a well-to-do family of London solicitors originating from Devon yeoman stock with business and nautical interests (Pierce Sound in North West Canada is named after an eighteenth-century ancestor). As an amateur painter trained at South Kensington she developed a great eye for colour. It was the kind of family that produced many famous Englishmen, artists as well as scientists. V.B.W.’s scientific illustrations show that he inherited his mothers artistic talent. His elder brother’s career as a landscape painter was cut short by his early death in 1936.

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