Reference
CRT180/293
Title
Biography and obituary of Sir Thomas Maclear, astronomer and notes on the Maclears of Ireland.
Date free text
c.1979
Production date
From: 1979 To: 1979
old accession number 7264
Scope and Content
Consists of:
1. Photocopy of the obituary of The Late Sir Thomas Maclear taken from the Bedford Bee of 27 August 1879.
2. Photocopy of the entry for Thomas Maclear from the Dictionary of Scientific Biography Volume 3, 1973.
3. Photocopy of the entry for Sir Thomas Maclear, probably taken from the Dictionary of National Biography, but exact source not stated.
4. Transcript of manuscript written by one of the children of Sir Thomas Maclear, the original being in the possession of University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, made by John Gillis of Kent on 2 Spet 1990. Copyright presumed to rest with John Gillis.
5. Photocopy of notes on the Maclears in Ireland c. 1631-1922 and descendants abroad, supplied to the archive service in April 1992 by Mrs I Mclear and presumed to be her copyright.
6. Three photocopies of pedigrees, one credited to J F G Maclear of Illinois, 1991.
Level of description
item