Astronomer and meteorologist, pioneer aeronaut, president of the Royal Photographic Society 1869-1892. Born at Rotherhithe 7 April 1809; died at The Shola, Croydon, 7 Feb 1903. Married Cecilia Louisa (née Belville) in 1843. Father of James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848-1928) and Cecilia Hunt (née Glaisher). Source: "The dictionary of national biography; supplement January 1901 - December 1911" (Oxford, 1912)
There are 6 related items to this topic
Date:
1851
By:
Wyon, William, 1795?-1851; Hunt, Frederick Knight, 1868-1945; Hunt, Cecilia Appelina, 1845-1932
Ref:
Curios-005-027
Description:
Medal recto shows a profile head of Albert, consort of Queen Victoria. The verso shows a wreath of laurel leaves, around the words "For service".
The medal ...
Date:
[1850s-1890s]
From:
Craddock, Gerald Rainsford, 1910-1990 :Photographs relating to the Glaisher family
By:
Carrick, William, 1827-1878; Hunt, Cecilia Appelina, 1845-1932; Lorens, A, active 1860s-1880s
Ref:
PA1-o-191
Description:
Album compiled by Cecilia Apellina Glaisher, comprising:
Lithographs of scenes in the Isle of Wight
Salt paper prints showing scenes in England; rural church...
Date:
[1860s to 1870s]
From:
Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs
Ref:
PA1-o-163
Description:
Cartes-de-visite portraits including members of the Glaisher family in England. Most are not identified
Quantity: 1 album(s).
Physical Description: Cartes-...
Date:
[1860s-1870s]
From:
Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs
By:
Redfern, Richard, active 1880s
Ref:
PA1-o-164
Description:
Cartes-de-visite, mostly unidentified, photographed by unidentified photographers, circa 1860s-1870s, most taken in England.
Quantity: 1 album(s).
Physical...
Date:
[1860s to 1870s]
From:
Craddock, Gerald Rainsford, 1910-1990 :Photographs relating to the Glaisher family
Ref:
PA1-o-190
Description:
Cartes-de-visite, mostly unidentified, photographed by unidentified photographers, circa 1860s-1870s, probably taken in England
Quantity: 1 album(s).
Physi...
Date:
1850-1880
From:
Craddock, Gerald Rainsford, 1910-1990 :Photographs relating to the Glaisher family
By:
Glaisher, James, 1809-1903
Ref:
PAColl-1477-1
Description:
Early salt and albumen prints, associated with James Glaisher, prominent Victorian scientist and president of the Royal Photographic Society
Quantity: 14 b&...
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