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Rev. Nathaniel Bliss (1700—64)
Fourth Astronomer Royal (1762—64)
Born: November 28, 1700 Bisley, Gloucestershire, England
Died: September 2, 1764, Oxford, Oxfordshire
Buried: St Margaret's Churchyard, Lee (near Greenwich), London, England
Astronomer Royal: 1762 - 1764
Bliss graduated from Pembroke College, Oxford (B.A., 1720; M.A., 1723), and became rector of St. Ebbe's, Oxford, in 1736. He succeeded Edmond Halley as Savilian professor of geometry at the University of Oxford in 1742 and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society the same year. A correspondent and occasional assistant of James Bradley, third Astronomer Royal, Bliss acted for him in observing the transit of Venus in 1761 and succeeded him as Astronomer Royal in 1762.
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