Caroline Lucretia Herschel (1750–1848)

German astronomer. Born in Hanover. In 1772, travelled to England with her brother William Herschel, who taught her English and trained her as a singer in Bath. After William’s discovery of Uranus in 1781, she moved to Windsor and co-discovered eight comets and many nebulae with him. Produced a list of errors in John Flamsteed’s British Catalogue of stars (1725), published by the Royal Society in 1798. Returned to Hanover after her brother’s death in 1822. Revised the catalogues of nebulae to assist the research of her nephew, John Herschel.