Editing William Rutter Dawes (section)

==Astronomy==

[[File:The Thorrowgood telescope - geograph.org.uk - 2358429.jpg|thumb|left|The Thorrowgood Telescope at Cambridge Observatory]] 
Dawes made extensive measurements of [[double star]]s as well as observations of [[planet]]s.  He was a friend of [[William Lassell]]. He was nicknamed "eagle eyed".<ref>Proctor, R A, "Canals on the Planet Mars", ''The Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser'', 14 April, 1882, p7, column 7.</ref>  He set up his private observatory at his home, Hopefield House, built 1856-7<ref>Sharp, Steve, with Wellby, Michael, "Hopefield House, Station Rd and the Rev Dr WR Dawes", ''The Haddenham Chronicles'', No 2, Autumn 2006, Haddenham Museum Trust, pp40-2</ref> in [[Haddenham, Buckinghamshire]].  One of his telescopes, an eight-inch (200mm) aperture refractor by [[Thomas Cooke (machinist)|Cooke]], survives at the [[Cambridge Observatory]], now part of the [[Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge|Institute of Astronomy]] where it is known as the Thorrowgood Telescope.<ref>[https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/about/thorrowgood.telescope Institute of Astronomy - Thorrowgood Telescope]</ref>

[[File:Proctor Richard Anthony Other Worlds Mars Chart 1896.jpg|thumb|A Chart of Mars Laid down on the Stereographic Projection by R A Proctor. From: ''Other Worlds Than Ours'', 1896.]]
He made extensive drawings of [[Mars]] during its 1864 [[astronomical opposition|opposition]].  In 1867, [[Richard Anthony Proctor]] made a map of Mars based on these drawings. Proctor named two features after Dawes.<ref>	
Proctor, R A, ''Other worlds than ours; the plurality of worlds studied under the light of recent scientific researches'', 1896, [https://archive.org/details/otherworldsthano00proc_0/page/n115/mode/2up opp p105]</ref>

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1830 and a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] in 1865, for his astronomical work.<ref name="frs">[https://catalogues.royalsociety.org/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=EC%2f1865%2f03 Dawes, William Rutter: certificate of election to the Royal Society]</ref> Proposers for his Royal Society Fellowship included [[George Biddell Airy|G B Airy]] and  [[John Herschel|J F W Herschel]].<ref name="frs" />