Georgiana, the third daughter of Thomas Bowles of Guernsey
4 sons & 1 daughter
1815 in Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK
1889
London
Thomas de la Rue, founder of the large firm of stationers in London ;
mother Jane De la Rue, née Warren;
in London & in Paris, then entered his father's business & devoted leisure hours to chemical & electrical researches; in astronomy by James Nasmyth
United Kingdom
On the total solar eclipse of July 18th, 1860, observed at Rivabellosa
Royal Astronomical Society (member & publ. in Monthly Notices) ; Brit. Ass. f. Adv.of Science ; Chemical Society; Royal Society ; Kew Observatory
researcher Balfour Stewart & Mr B. Loewy on solar physics ; chemist Dr. Hugo Muller / Müller ; N. Maskelyne: swanseamuseum.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/from-the-collection-no-1/ ; ->Paul Pretsch; Edwin Hill ; photogr. -> Henry Reynolds & portrait engr. ->Daniel J. Pound
astronomical photography & stereography; wet collodion; experim. photomechanical prints such as heliotypography, photoheliography & photogalvanography
see var. links at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_De_la_Rue
AKL ; Journ. Chem. Soc. 57: 441 ; Nature 40: 26 ; The Times (22 April 1889) ; Royal Soc., Catalogue of Scientific Papers ; K. Hentschel: Mapping the Spectrum (Oxford 2002: 161f.); Thomas 1997: 199 & 205f. ; Corey Keller: Brought to Light-Photography & the Invisible 1840-1900 (2009) ; R. Krauss: Hist. Photography 2: 302 ; Chitra Ramalingam: Natural history in the dark-seriality and the electric discharge in Victorian physics, History of Science 48,3 (2010): 371-398, esp. pp. 385ff & note 57; Katy Barrett & Harry Cliff (eds.) The Sun. One Thousand Years of Scientific Imagery (London 2018): 108f.;
Known as British astronomer & chemist, most famous for pioneering work in astronomical photography, stereoscopy & photomechanical printing techniques; espedition to Spain f. solar eclipse 1860.
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