Orwell Astronomical Society (Ipswich)
Biographical Notes on Individuals Active in Ipswich Science-Gossip Society and Ipswich Scientific Society
Below are biographical notes on several of the characters mentioned in the minute books of Ipswich Science-Gossip Society and Ipswich Scientific Society.
Census and other data
Born: Ipswich, 06 July 1844.
1870 Medical Directory, Carr St., Ipswich, L.R.C.P. Lond. 1868; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1868; (Guy’s).
Married (1): Jane Sophia Alexander (1859-1900), Ipswich, 1875.
1891 census, surgeon registered general practitioner, Major’s House, Major’s Corner, Ipswich.
Married (2): Cordelia Eliza Cullingham (1854-1914), Ipswich, 1900.
1901 census, physician & surgeon, Major’s House, Major’s Corner, Ipswich.
Died: Ipswich, 19 October 1904, age 60.
Obituary
BMJ 12 November 1904, vol. 2, no. 2289, p. 1347 (which mentions his interest in astronomy), see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2355845/pdf/brmedj08195-0067b.pdf.
Ipswich Science-Gossip Society
05 June 1880. Branford Edwards exhibited a handmade telescope speculum. [GC444/1/2 Minute Book, 1874-84, p. 268.]
03 May 1882. Branford Edwards lectured on "The Reflecting Telescope". [ibid, p. 312.]
E J Brown’s grandfather was William Brown, born in Framlingham on 05 December 1779. William was an architect, surveyor and timber merchant, and founded the Ipswich timber merchants "William Brown & Company".
Census and other data
Born: Ipswich, 1856.
1881 census, Gippeswyk Hall (with parents).
1885, married Annie Josephine Loverly (1858-1930) in Ipswich.
1887, joined the Liverpool Astronomical Society, address, 24 Burlington Rd., Ipswich [LAS membership list for 1887 (British Library, London)].
1891, 1901 & 1911 censuses, Villette, 28 Tuddenham Road, Ipswich.
Died: Ipswich, 06 November 1920, age 64.
Ipswich Science Gossip Society
05 May 1880, Mr E J Brown lectured on "The Ringed Planet Saturn". [GC444/1/2 Minute Book, 1874-84, p. 266.]
07 March 1883, Mr E J Brown lectured on "The Moon". [ibid, p. 330.]
Ipswich Scientific Society
01 April 1885, Mr E J Brown read an interesting paper on "The Physical Constitution of the Sun". [GC444/1/3 Minute Book, 1885-1903, p. 16.]
06 April 1892, Mr E J Brown read a paper on "Astronomical Instruments". [ibid, p. 208.]
Census and other data
Born, Northern Ireland, ca. 1858.
1891 census, Physician & Surgeon, Suffolk County Lunatic Asylum, Melton (later known as St Audry's).
Died, Kensington, W London, 14 December 1904, age 48.
Obituary, BMJ, vol. 1 (1905), no. 2397, p. 49, see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2318707/pdf/brmedj08098-0051c.pdf.
Ipswich Scientific Society
05 December 1885, Dr W M Young gave an extremely good paper on "The Sun". He advanced that the Helmholtz (Shrinkage) Theory was the source of the Sun’s power. [GC44/1/3 Minute Book, 1885-1903, p. 250.]
05 February 1896, Dr W M Young read a paper entitled "Historical Notes on the Development of Astronomy as a Science". [ibid, p. 276.]
Mentioned several times in the records of Ipswich Science Gossip Society [GC444/1/2 Minute Book, 1874-84] and Ipswich Science Society [GC444/1/3 Minute Book, 1885-1903].
Mentioned in the records of Ipswich Science Society [GC444/1/3a Minute Book, 1903-23].
Bill Barton, FRAS