Timothy Harley
From Kook Science
| Rev. Timothy Harley, F.R.A.S. | |
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| Born | c. 1845 St Giles-in-the-Fields, Middlesex, England, UK |
| Died | 30 March 1904 (59) Croydon, Surrey, England, UK |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Ann Harley; Agnes Annie Adams (m. 1897) |
Timothy Patrick Harley (1845-1904) was an English-born Baptist minister and lecturer, as well as an astronomer, elected as a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1883,[1] who authored two books on the Moon, the more notable being Moon Lore (1885).
As a minister, Harley served as pastor at: the Baptist Church of Aylsham, Norfolk (from 1864 to 1867); Agard-street in Derby (from 1867); Metropolitan Tabernacle in London; St. John's, New Brunswick; First Baptist Church in Savannah, Georgia (from 1871 through 1879); and John Street Chapel, Bedford Row in Bloomsbury, London.
Selected Bibliography
- Harley, Timothy (1867), Christian Poems, London: Printed for the author, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008899354
- Harley, Timothy (1882), Baptist Principles, London: Baptist Tract Depository
- Harley, Timothy (1885), Moon Lore, London: Swan Soonenschein & Co., https://archive.org/details/moonlore00harl/
- Harley, Timothy (1886), Lunar Science: Ancient and Modern, London: Swan Soonenschein & Co., https://archive.org/details/lunarscienceanci00harliala
- Harley, Timothy (1886), Southward ho! Notes of a tour to and through the State of Georgia, London: S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000197529
References
- ↑ List of the Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society, Royal Astronomical Society, 1899, p. 14, https://books.google.com/books?id=l0pBAQAAIAAJ&pg=PT11, "Date of Election: 1883 Apr. 13, Rev. Timothy Harley, The Torrs, Wallington, Surrey."