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Oxford University: History of Science Museum
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Businesses (2)
- Allen & Hanbury Ltd, manufacturing chemists London
- Richard Fort & Co, calico printers Oakenshaw, Lancashire
Organisations (10)
- Friends of the Old Ashmolean Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Museum of the History of Science, Oxford Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Oxford Microscopical Society Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Oxford University Alembic Club Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Oxford University Botanic Garden Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Oxford University Observatory Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Oxford University Physical and Radio Society Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Oxford University Physical Society Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Philosophical Society of London London
- Royal Microscopical Society
Persons (94)
- Airy, Sir George Biddell, (1801-1892), Knight, astronomer and mathematician
- Andrews, Thomas, (1813-1885), Chemist
- Babbage, Charles, (1792-1871), mathematician
- Ball, Sir Robert Stawell, (1840-1913), Knight, astronomer and mathematician
- Barnett, Thomas George, (1857-1935), jeweller and antiquary
- Berkeley, Randal Mowbray Thomas Rawdon, (1865-1942), 8th Earl of Berkeley, physicist
- Bloxam, Andrew, (1801-1878), Rector of Harborough Naturalist Botanist
- Bowen, Edmund John, (1898-1980), Chemist and Historian
- Bradley, James, (1693-1762), Chaplain to Bishop of Hereford, astronomer
- Brodie, Sir Benjamin Collins, (1817-1880), 2nd Baronet, chemist
- Buckland, William, (1784-1856), Dean of Westminster, geologist
- Buxton, Harry Wilmot, (c 1818-1880), lawyer
- Buxton, Leonard Halford Dudley, (1889-1939), anthropologist
- Clay, Reginald Stanley, (1868-1954), physicist
- Clifton, Robert Bellamy, (1836-1921), Professor of Experimental Philosophy at Oxford
- Collie, Carl Howard, (1903-1991), chemist and physicist
- Crisp, Sir Frank, (1843-1919), Knight Solicitor Historian of the Microscope
- Daubeny, Charles Giles Bridle, (1795-1867), chemist and botanist
- Donkin, William Fishburn, (1814-1869), Astronomer
- Druce, George Claridge, (1854-1932), botanist
- Dunthorne, Richard, (1711-1775), Astronomer
- Edmonds, James Marmaduke, (1909-1982), Geologist and Historian
- Evans, Lewis, (1755-1827), mathematician and teacher
- Evans, Lewis, (1853-1930), tariff commissioner, collector of scientific instruments and antiquary
- Fahie, John Joseph, (1846-1934), Electrical Engineer and Historian
- Ferguson, Allan, (1880-1951), Physicist
- Ferguson, James, (1710-1776), astronomer
- Flamsteed, John, (1646-1719), astronomer
- Gabb, George Hugh, (1868-1948), Chemist and Scientific Antiquary
- Galton, Sir Francis, (1822-1911), Knight, eugenist, meteorologist, psychologist
- Gibbon, Edward, (1737-1794), Historian
- Gowing, Margaret Mary, (1921-1998), historian of science
- Grubb, Sir Howard, (1844-1931), Knight Scientist
- Gunther, Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf, (1830-1914), Zoologist
- Gunther, Albert Everard, (1903-1997), Writer
- Gunther, Amy Neville, (1868-1964), Genealogist
- Gunther, Robert William Theodore, (1869-1940), Zoologist and Antiquary
- Gwatkin, Henry Melvill, (1844-1916), ecclesiastical historian and naturalist
- Harvey, William, (c 1807-1876), Surgeon
- Herschel, Sir John Frederick William, (1792-1871), 1st Baronet, astronomer
- Herschel, Sir William, (1738-1822), Knight, astronomer and musician
- Hornsby, Thomas, (1733-1810), Astronomer
- James, Robert, (1705-1776), Physician
- Johnson, Manuel John, (1805-1859), Astronomer
- Jones, Thomas, (1775-1852), optician
- Josten, Hermann Hubertus Maria Apollinaris, (1912-1994), Curator of Museum of History of Science Historian
- Lankester, Sir Edwin Ray, (1847-1929), Knight, zoologist
- Leadbetter, Charles, (1681-1744), Astronomer
- Lee, John, (1783-1866), antiquary and astronomer
- Lindemann, Frederick Alexander, (1886-1957), 1st Viscount Cherwell, physicist
- Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph, (1851-1940), Knight, physicist
- Ludlam, William, (1717-1788), Mathematician
- Maskelyne, Nevil, (1732-1811), astronomer
- Mercer, John, (1791-1866), Chemist and Calico Printer
- Miller, Philip, (1691-1771), horticulturist
- Minchin, Edward, (1866-1915), Zoologist
- Minn, Henry, (1870-1961), Clockmaker and Antiquary
- Moseley, Henry Gwyn Jeffreys, (1887-1915), Physicist
- Muirhead, James Patrick, (1813-1898), biographer of James Watt
- Neville-Rolfe, Eustace, (1845-1908), Consul General at Naples
- Odling, William, (1829-1921), chemist
- Osler, Sir William, (1849-1919), Knight Physician
- Parker, Evaline Gertrude, (fl 1911), Antiquary
- Perkin, William Henry, (1860-1929), chemist
- Phillips, John, (1800-1874), geologist
- Pogson, Norman Robert, (1829-1891), Astronomer
- Pointer, John, (1668-1754), Antiquary
- Pott, Percivall, (1714-1788), Surgeon
- Powell, Baden, (1796-1860), Savilian and Professor of Geometry
- Pulteney, Richard, (1730-1801), Botanist
- Rigaud, Stephen Peter, (1774-1839), astronomer
- Robertson, Abraham, (1751-1826), Astronomer and Mathematician
- Roger, John, (1651-1703), President of Magdalen College
- Ross, Sir John, (1777-1856), Knight Rear Admiral Arctic Navigator
- Rossi, John Charles Felix, (1762-1839), Sculptor
- Rowell, George Augustus, (1804-1892), Meteorologist Assistant Curator of Ashmolean Museum
- Scott, William, (1745-1836), Baron Stowell, judge
- Sidgwick, Nevil Vincent, (1873-1952), Chemist
- Singer, Charles Joseph, (1876-1960), historian of medicine and science
- Skeat, Walter William, (1835-1912), philologist
- Smith, Frederick John Jervis-, (1848-1911), engineer
- Smith, Henry John Stephen, (1826-1883), mathematician
- Soddy, Frederick, (1877-1956), Chemist
- Spencer, George, (1739-1817), 4th Duke of Marlborough
- Stapleton, Henry Ernest, (1878-1962), Historian
- Strutt, John William, (1842-1919), 3rd Baron Rayleigh, mathematician and physicist
- Taylor, Frank Sherwood, (1897-1956), chemist and historian
- Taylor, Herbert Hall, (1864-1930), astronomer
- Thomson, William, (1824-1907), Baron Kelvin, physicist
- Turner, Herbert Hall, (1861-1930), astronomer and seismologist
- Underhill, Henry Michael John, (1855-1920), Entomologist and Antiquary
- Venn, John, (1834-1923), Logician and Historian
- Wing, Tycho, (1696-1750), Astrologer
- Wright, Joseph, (1855-1930), Philologist
Families (3)
- Berkeley family, Earls of Berkeley Abingdon, Berkshire;Fawler, Berkshire;Uffington, Berkshire;Wootton, Berkshire;Penpoll, Cornwall;Devon;Portesham, Dorset;Alkington, Gloucestershire;Berkeley, Gloucestershire;Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire;Cam, Gloucestershire;Coaley, Gloucestershire;Kingswood, Gloucestershire;Michaelwood, Gloucestershire;Slimbridge, Gloucestershire;Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire;Yate, Gloucestershire;Northaw, Hertfordshire;Alconbury, Huntingdonshire;Weston, Huntingdonshire;Kent;Diseworth, Leicestershire;Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire;London;Cranford, Middlesex;Harlington, Middlesex;South Newington, Oxfordshire;Norfolk;Bedminster, Somerset;Portbury, Somerset;Bosham, Sussex;Caludon, Warwickshire;Hovingham, Yorkshire;Thirsk, Yorkshire
- Neville-Rolfe family of Heacham Heacham, Norfolk;Easton, Norfolk;Sedgeford, Norfolk
- Spencer-Churchill family, Dukes of Marlborough Cople, Bedfordshire;Langley, Buckinghamshire;Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire;Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire;Sandridge, Hertfordshire;Agney, Kent;Ingoldsby, Lincolnshire;Marlborough House, London;Sunderland House, London;Begbroke, Oxfordshire;Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire;Cassington, Oxfordshire;Charlbury, Oxfordshire;Hensington, Oxfordshire;North Leigh, Oxfordshire;Witney, Oxfordshire;Woodstock, Oxfordshire;Bath, Somerset;Woolbeding, Sussex;Lockeridge, Wiltshire;Overton, Wiltshire;Rowde, Wiltshire;West Lavington, Wiltshire
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (4)
- NRA 24563 Edmund John Bowen, chemist: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 40998 Robert William Theodore Gunther, zoologist and antiquary: corresp and papers
- NRA 41051 Oxford Museum of the History of Science: MS collections
- NRA 9532 Oxford University: Museum of the History of Science: scientific MSS