Editing William Rutter Dawes (section)

==Biography==
Dawes was born at [[Christ's Hospital]]<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0029//0000116.000.html |title = MNRAS..29 Page 116}}</ref> then in the [[City of London]] (it moved to [[Horsham District|Horsham]], [[West Sussex]] in 1902),<ref>[https://www.chmuseum.org.uk/ Christ's Hospital Museum] Retrieved 15 October 2021</ref> the son of [[William Dawes (British Marines officer)|William Dawes]], also an astronomer, and Judith Rutter.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers |last=Hockey |first=Thomas |date=2009 |publisher=[[Springer Publishing]] |isbn=978-0-387-31022-0 |accessdate=22 August 2012 |url=http://www.springerreference.com/docs/html/chapterdbid/58344.html}}</ref> He qualified as a doctor in 1825. On 29 October 1828 he was ordained pastor at an Independent chapel in Burscough Street, [[Ormskirk]], Lancashire,<ref name="nightingale">Nightingale, Benjamin, ''Lancashire nonconformity, or, Sketches, historical & descriptive, of the Congregational and old Presbyterian churches in the county''. John Heywood, 1890-1893, p[https://archive.org/details/lancashirenoncon04nighuoft/page/200/mode/2up 200-2]</ref> formerly part of a silk factory.<ref name="nightingale" /> A new chapel, in Chapel Street, was opened in 1834.<ref name="nightingale" /> Dawes resigned as pastor in December 1837 due to ill health.<ref name="nightingale" /> When, in 1843, the chapel got into financial difficulties due to the debt owing after its construction, Dawes came to their aid.<ref name="nightingale" />