Identity area
Reference code
Herschel/Box 1a/Document 39 - 44/Document 40
Unique identifier
GB 275 Herschel/Box 1a/Document 39 - 44/Document 40
Title
Photocopy of letter from Dr John Lee to Thomas Maclear, from Hartwell
Date(s)
- 21 January 1834 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
paper
Context area
Name of creator
(1783-1866)
Biographical history
Traveller, astronomer, antiquary; son of John Fiott; educated at St John's College; made a tour through Europe and the East collecting objects of antiquity, 1807-10; MA 1809; assumed name of Lee by royal license, 1815; FSA, 1828; built observatory on his estate, 1830; FRS, 1831; practising member of the ecclesiastical courts till 1858; QC, 1864; published scientific and antiquarian works.