George Augustus Rowell
1804–92
Meteorologist. Worked as a cabinetmaker and paper-hanger before gaining a position at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Assistant in the natural history department, Oxford University Museum, from 1860. Published letters and papers on meteorological subjects.
Sources
DNB
Modern English biography.
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
