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Jeremiah Horrocks was born at Lower Lodge Farm in Toxteth Park, a former royal deer park near Liverpool, Lancashire. [5] His father James had moved to Toxteth Park to be apprenticed to Thomas Aspinwall, a watchmaker, and subsequently married his master's daughter Mary.
Jeremiah Horrocks (1618 – 3 January 1641) [3] was born in Lower Lodge, Toxteth Park – now part of Liverpool but at that time a separate town. His father James was a watchmaker , and his mother Mary Aspinwall was from a notable Toxteth Park family. [ 6 ]
Ian Horrocks (RAF officer) (died 2014), British Royal Air Force pilot and air commodore; James Horrocks (died 1772), American Anglican clergyman and sixth president of the College of William and Mary; Jane Horrocks (born 1964), British comedian and actress; Jeremiah Horrocks (1618–1641), English astronomer
Jeff Baena's cause of death has been revealed, Fox News Digital confirmed. The film director and writer died by suicide on Jan. 3, according to the County of Los Angeles Medical Examiner.
The two correspondents both recorded the event in their own homes and it is not known whether they ever met in person, but Crabtree's calculations were crucial in allowing Horrocks to estimate the size of Venus and the distance from the Earth to the Sun. Unfortunately, Horrocks died early in 1641 – the day before he was due to meet Crabtree.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Turlock police say the husband and wife found dead in their home Monday night died at the hands of the husband in a murder-suicide. Police identified the couple as Troy Borges, 60, and Susanne ...
Lee Sun-Kyun L'Inconnue de la Seine Lucretia's suicide by Marcantonio Raimondi (1534) Ludwig II of Bavaria. L'Inconnue de la Seine (late 1880s), unidentified French woman pulled out of the Seine, known for the influence of her death mask on literature and art [728] Deborah Laake (2000), American columnist and writer, overdose of pills [729]