William Congreve, 2d baronet
1772–1828
Inventor of the Congreve rocket. MP for Plymouth, 1818–28. Succeeded his father as baronet, 1814. FRS 1811.
Source
ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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