Researching Philip Cowell
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 4288 people with the Cowell surname? In that year Cowell was ranked number 988 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Philip means "lover of horses" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Philip Cowell on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Philip Cowell and the Cowell Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Cowell Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Cowell family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 5292 people with the Cowell surname in the UK? Cowell is now ranked number 1116 for popularity in the UK. |
Cowell Family Tree Databases
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Cowell Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 9115 people with the Cowell surname in the USA? Cowell is ranked number 154 for popularity in the USA. |
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Philip Herbert Cowell
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Philip Herbert Cowell FRS (1870 – 1949) was a British astronomer.
Philip Herbert Cowell was born in Calcutta, India on the 7 August 1870, and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He became second chief assistant at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in 1896 and later became the Superintendent of HM Nautical Almanac Office between 1910 and 1930. He worked on celestial mechanics, and orbits of comets and minor planets in particular. He also carefully studied the discrepancy that then existed between the theory and observation of the position of the Moon.
Cowell was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society on 14 February 1896. On 27 October 1897 he was elected a member of the British Astronomical Association. He was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 3 May 1906. In 1911 he won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.
In 1909, he discovered 4358 Lynn, a 10-kilometer sized main-belt asteroid and member of the Eunomia.
In 1910, for their work on Halley’s Comet Cowell and Andrew Crommelin jointly received the Prix Jules Janssen, the highest award of the Société astronomique de France, the French astronomical society and the Lindemann Prize of the Astronomische Gesellschaft.
He died in Aldeburgh, Suffolk on 6 June 1949. The main-belt asteroid 1898 Cowell is named after him.
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