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Wrottesley, John, 1798-1867
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1798-1867
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WROTTESLEY, JOHN, 2ND BARON WROTTESLEY, eldest son of John Wrottesley, 1st Baron Wrottesley (qv), and his first wife; b. 5 Aug 1798; adm. 22 Jan 1810; left 29 Jul 1814; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 15 May 1816; 1st cl. Mathematics 1819; BA 1819; MA 1823; DCL 2 Jul 1860; Honorary Student, Christ Church 1860; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 19 nov 1819, called to bar 10 Feb 1823; practised as conveyancer and equity draftsman for some nine years; one of the Boundary Commissioners under the first Reform Bill; succ. father as 2nd Baron Wrottesley 16 Mar 1841; took Whig/Liberal whip in House of Lords; DL Staffordshire; one of founders of Society for Diffusion of Useful Knowledge; founder member, Royal Astronomical Society 1820, Secretary 1831-41, Gold Medallist 1839, President 1841-3; FRS 29 Apr 1841, President 30 Nov 1854 – 30 Nov 1858; President, British Association 1860; compiled various Catalogues of Stars; contributor to Memoirs and Monthly Notices of Royal, Astronomical Society; m. 28 Jul 1821 Sophia Elizabeth, third dau. of Thomas Giffard, Chillington, Staffs.; d. 27 Oct 1867. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.