Sir John Frederick William Herschel, British astronomer city Steam boat Company The school

The school

'Turkey and Grease'

18th October 1969

Part of the town and harbour of Folkestone is visible in the distance

A strawberry seller in Covent Garden balancing a basket of strawberries on her head

Sir John Frederick William Herschel, British astronomer city Steam boat Company The schoolSir 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'.