Honours
- He is reputed to have been offered a knighthood on Queen Victoria's 1847 Cambridge visit but to have declined, either out of modesty, or fear of the financial consequences of such social distinction;
- Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, (1847);
- Copley medal of the Royal Society, (1848);
- Adams Prize, founded by the members of St John's College, to be given biennially for the best treatise on a mathematical subject (1848);
- President of the Royal Astronomical Society, (1851–1853 and 1874–1876).
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