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Report on the adjudication of the Copley, Rumford, and royal medals: and appointment of the Bakerian, Croonian, and Fairchild lectures
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He became a baronet in 1773, on the death of his uncle, and (after returning from his postgraduate travels to Europe) moved to
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Kendall, M. G. (1969). "Studies in the History of Probability and Statistics, XXI. The Early History of Index Numbers".
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Hingley, Peter D. (2013). "The Shuckburghs of Shuckburgh, Isaac Fletcher, and the History of the English Mounting".
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in his measurements of the earth's shape, and in setting standards for many years by the British government.
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of water at different pressures, and pointed out the need for controlling for this effect when calibrating
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Revue de l'Institut International de Statistique / Review of the International Statistical Institute
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Pearn, John (2012). "Sir George Shuckburgh Evelyn (1751–1804): precision in thermometry".
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George Shuckburgh was born on 23 August 1751, the son of Richard Shuckburgh of
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Sir George A. W. Shuckburgh-Evelyn, 6th Bart, copy of a portrait by
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McConnell, Anita (2007). "Sir George Shuckburgh's Observatory".
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In 1782, he was married to Sarah Johanna Darker, daughter of
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Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn, 6th Baronet
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He made a series of astronomical observations and an
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John Hoppner

politician
mathematician
astronomer
Limerick
Rugby School
Balliol College, Oxford
Shuckburgh Hall
Shuckburgh
Warwickshire
Fellow
Royal Society
House of Commons
Member of Parliament
Warwickshire
John Darker
Charles Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool
Lower Shuckburgh
Warwickshire

Sidereal clock
ephemeris
Shuckburgh telescope
Warwickshire
Shuckburgh
metrology
boiling point
thermometers

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