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          Sir William Herschel (1738-1822)
          Born: 15th November 1738 at Hanover, Germany
          Astronomer
          Die          d: 25th August 1822 at Upton, Slough, Buckinghamshire

          Sir William Herschel, the astronomer, was a German by birth and a musician by training.

          He came to England, in very poor circumstances, in 1757 and got a post as an organist at Bath, nine years later.

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          6. Here he earned some money as a teacher of music and spent it all on the construction of telescopes made with his own hands. As success came to him, he went on to the construction of larger and larger instruments, at first wholly for his own use.

          The result was his discovery of the 'new' planet Uranus in 1781. He was therefore elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He owed much to the continual and highly enlightened patronage of King George III, who gave him the post of Astronomer Royal.

          In 1786, after several shifts of residence - including Clay Hall at Old Windsor - he settled at Slough in Buckinghamshire, where he spent his