William Scoresby
1789–1857
Clergyman and arctic scientist. Served as a captain in the Greenland fishery before entering Queens’ College, Cambridge in 1824. Vicar of Bradford, 1839–47. Made a voyage to Australia to carry out magnetic observations, 1856. Published scientific works relating to the Arctic seas. FRS 1824.
Sources
R. Desmond 1977
ODNB.
Bibliography
Desmond, Ray. 1977. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists, including plant collectors and botanical artists. 3d ed. London: Taylor and Francis.
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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