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Andrew Crosse 17 June 1784 - 6 July 1855. Andrew Cross was a British amateur scientist who was born and died at Fyne Court, Broomfield, Somerset. Along with Sir Humphry Davy (who visited Fyne Court in 1827), Crosse was one of the first to develop large voltaic piles. Although it was not the largest he built, Henry Minchin Noad's Manual of Electricity. Crosse went on to separate copper successfully from its ores using electrolysis, experimented with the electrolysis of sea water, wine and brandy, and exam...

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Henry Corder 1838 - 1922. Henry Corder (1853-1944) was born at Ipswich 13 May 1853, and educated at Bootham school where he developed a life-long love of astronomy. He moved to Bridgwater where he was in business as a nurseryman and seedsman. He was twice married and had two sons. He was an avid collector and natural historian, and a keen photographer He was a council member of the SANHS, as well as being a sought-after lecturer. Comments on the site? Queries on Bridgwater history or heritage?

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John Clark 1785 - 1853. John Clark,(1785-1853) was born 21 November at Greinton, the eldest son of Thomas Clark and Mary Metford and was a brother of Thomas Clark, the botanist. He was a grocer and later printer by profession. He was educated at Compton School, near Sherborne,and was apprenticed to Joseph Metford of Glastonbury, shop-keeper and stocking manufacturer. He moved to Bridgwater in 1809 and set himself up as a grocer and later printer. Clark died 23 May 1853. Edward H. Milligan, Biographic...

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Thomas Clark 1793 - 1864. Thomas Clark (1793-1864) was a brother of the John Clark. By 1810 he had moved to Bridgwater, and set himself up as a grocer. He married Elizabeth Bull in 1833, and by her had one son, who died soon after his birth,. She died in 1837. Their grave marker may be seen in the Quaker burial ground at Bridgwater. Edward H Milligan, Biographical Dictionary of British Quakers in Commerce and Industry, 1775-1920, 2007, p 110. Comments on the site? Contributions to the site?

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Thomas Charnock c.1525-1581. Charnock left two alchemical manuscripts which survive 'Breviary of Natural Philosophy' (1577). and 'Booke dedicated vnto the queenes maiestiee' (1565). Source Robert M Schuler ODNB article Thomas Charnock, 2004. Comments on the site? Queries on Bridgwater history or heritage? Contributions to the site?

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Robert Anstice 1757 - 1845. ROBERT ANSTICE (1757-1845) was a ship-owner and merchant, civil engineer and Somerset's first County Surveyor. He was baptised 9 December 1757, and died 30 April 1845 aged 88. Robert Anstice followed his father as a ship-owner and merchant, and later took over his brother-in law's share of the Coalport China Works. His professional work in the county covered roads and bridges, sea-wall work at Huntspill and Blue Anchor, and much drainage works, including Kings Sedgemoor Drain ...

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John Bowen 1785 - 1854. JOHN BOWEN, (1785-1854) was the elder son of Edward Bowen, a shipwright, who came from Glamorgan, and married the daughter of a shop-keeper named Hayes. In the winter of 1807-8, following a disastrous ship-wreck there, he was sent to the Farne Islands, Northumberland, to put up a temporary light, and in 1808, after the Hon. East India Company had requested Trinity House to send an experienced man to erect lights around the coasts, he was selected, aged 23, leaving his wife beh...

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Robert Gillo 1841 - 1891. Robert Gillo outside his house, 32 Friarn Street, Bridgwater. 2011 Blake Museum, by permission. Robert Gillo was born in the spring of 1841 in Bath, Somerset, to Robert (snr) (son of John Gillo), a manufacturing cutler, and his wife Frances. The family lived at 4 Somerset Buildings Bath. Whilst there, Robert (snr) marketed a resilvering mixture which was widely advertised until 1845. In 1851, Robert (snr) died. Robert Gillo died in Bath in 1891, aged 49; his wife in June 1897.

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Fr John Somer ca. 1340 -1410. John Somer was a contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1340 -1400). He was probably born in the 1340s and the last record of his receiving a grant was 10 October 1409, so he probably died in that year. Somer seems to have entered the order of the fratum minorum. So perhaps not the same man. For the meridian of Oxford). He was still a member of the Greyfriars convent in Oxford in 1394 and 1395, where he was recognised as an astronomer. It seem that John Somer was one of the l...

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Spencer James Perceval 1838 - 1922. Spencer George Perceval, (1838-1922), amateur antiquary and geologist. He was the second son of Ernest Augustus Perceval and his cousin Beatrice Trevelyan. At the time of his birth they were living at Old Cleeve near Watchet. Spencer George's grandfather was Spencer Perceval the Prime Minister who was assassinated in 1812. Ernest Augustus was an army officer who fought in the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny. Comments on the site? Contributions to the site?