Sir John Frederick William Herschel, British astronomer Finish:Float frame The new bridge being built

The new bridge being built over the River Lea

King George III is presenting the sword to a kneeling Admiral Earl Howe

Interior view of Trinity Hall

It shows children playing in the vicinity of the sector boundary sign

Sir John Frederick William Herschel, British astronomer Finish:Float frame The new bridge being builtSir John Frederick William Herschel, British astronomer, 1867. The son of Sir William Herschel, who discovered the planet Uranus, John Herschel (1792 1871) followed his father in astronomical research, mapping the sky of the southern hemisphere and cataloguing many previously unseen stars. He was also a pioneer photographer, and coined the photographic terms 'negative and 'positive'.