Category:William de Wiveleslie Abney

**William de Wiveleslie Abney**
	British astronomer, chemist and photographer
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Date of birth	24 July 1843; Derby
Date of death	3 December 1920; Folkestone
Cause of death	disease;
Work period (start)	1870;
Work period (end)	1907;
Country of citizenship	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland;
Educated at	Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Rossall School;
Occupation	photographer; chemist; astronomer; army officer;
Member of	Royal Society; Royal Society of Edinburgh; Royal Astronomical Society (1870–); Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society;
Position held	president (Physical Society of London, 1895–1897);
Field of work	astronomy;
Father	Edward Henry Abney;
Mother	Catherine Strutt;
Child	Lancelot Edward Guy Abney; Ethel Wootton Abney; Helen Lillian Abney; Janet Marie de Wiveleslie Abney;
Spouse	Agnes Matilda Smith (1864 – unknown value); Mary Louisa Mead (1889 – unknown value);
Award received	Fellow of the Royal Society (1876); Rumford Medal (1882); Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (1900); Bakerian Lecture (1886, 1880); Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1885);
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