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100:. Sheepshanks went to live with him. When he died unmarried in Reading in 1855 she was his heir. She gave 196 books from her brother's book collection to the 160: 88:
in 1794. She was the daughter of Joseph and Ann Sheepshanks. Her mother was from Kendal and her father was a cloth manufacturer. Her brothers were
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Monthly Notices ...: Containing Papers, Abstracts of Papers, and Reports of the Proceedings of the Society
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Anne Sheepshanks: patron, benefactor, sister, by Mark Hurn A&G (2016) 57 (3): 3.11.
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at the observatory, which was named in her honour, and also to establish the Sheepshanks
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is also named after her, one of the few lunar craters with a female
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http://astrogeo.oxfordjournals.org/content/57/3/3.11.abstract
85: 32: 128: 76:(1789–1876) was a British astronomical benefactor. 111:. This fund was used to purchase a modern photographic 202:
History of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1820–1920
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Leeds
Reading
British
Leeds
John
Richard Sheepshanks
Trinity College, Cambridge
Royal Astronomical Society
Cambridge Observatory
telescope
Exhibition
Royal Astronomical Society
Sheepshanks
Moon
eponym


Clerke, Agnes M.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/25288
UK public library membership
Dreyer, J. L. E.
Turner, H. H.
History of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1820–1920
Royal Astronomical Society
192
ISBN
0-632-02173-X
Monthly Notices ...: Containing Papers, Abstracts of Papers, and Reports of the Proceedings of the Society

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