Adams, John Couch ♂

Education

Professor of Mathematics 22.4.1858 - 8.1.1859 (resigned). LL.D. 13.2.1869.

Birth/childhood

Born 5.6.1819 eldest son of Thomas Adams, tenant farmer, Lidcot near Launceston, and Tabitha Knill Grylls. [Farmer]

Career

Educated at Cambridge University - St Johns - B.A. 1843 M.A. 1846.

Lowndean Professor of Astronomy, Cambridge University from 1858. F.R.S.E. 1859. [University professor]

Discoverer of planet Neptune.

Professor of Mathematics 22.4.1858 - 8.1.1859 (resigned).[St Andrews University]

Death

Died at Cambridge 21.1.1892.

Sources

• DNB
• Fifeshire Jnl 1.4.1858 p6,7
• 8.4.1858 p6
• 29.4.1858 p6
• 25.11.1858 p5