Sir John Frederick William Herschel, British astronomer Finish:Float frame A scene at Sadler's Wells

A scene at Sadler's Wells and Sir Hugh Middleton Tavern

The new bridge being built over the River Lea

Two crashed cars from the Singer Nine team

Interior view of Trinity Hall

Sir John Frederick William Herschel, British astronomer Finish:Float frame A scene at Sadler's WellsSir John Frederick William Herschel, British astronomer, 1867. The son of Sir William Herschel, who discovered the planet Uranus, John Herschel (1792 1871) followed his father in astronomical research, mapping the sky of the southern hemisphere and cataloguing many previously unseen stars. He was also a pioneer photographer, and coined the photographic terms 'negative and 'positive'.