John Herschel - Family

Family

He married Margaret Brodie Stewart (1810–1884) on 3 March 1829 at Edinburgh and produced the following children:

  1. Caroline Emilia Mary Herschel (31 March 1830 – 29 Jan 1909), who married Alexander Hamilton-Gordon
  2. Isabella Herschel (5 June 1831 – 1893)
  3. Sir William James Herschel, 2nd Bt. (9 January 1833 – 1917),
  4. Margaret Louisa Herschel (1834–1861), an accomplished artist
  5. Prof. Alexander Stewart Herschel (1836–1907), FRS
  6. Col. John Herschel (1837–1921), FRS, FRAS, surveyor
  7. Maria Sophie Herschel (1839–1929)
  8. Amelia Herschel (1841–1926) married Sir Thomas Francis Wade, diplomat and sinologist
  9. Julia Mary Herschel (1842–1933) married on 4 June 1878 to Captain (later Admiral) John Fiot Lee Pearse Maclear
  10. Matilda Rose Herschel (1844–1914)
  11. Francisca Herschel (1846–1932)
  12. Constance Ann Herschel (1855–20 Jun 1939)

On his death at Collingwood, his home near Hawkhurst in Kent, he was given a national funeral and buried in Westminster Abbey.

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