Charles Walmesley ( 1722 - 1797 )

Birth: Westwood House, near Wigan, Lancashire, England (13 January 1722) Death: Bath, Somerset (25 November 1797) Burial: St Joseph's Chapel, Bristol Profession: Roman Catholic priest Research Field: Mathematics, astronomy Education: English Benedictine College of St Gregory, Douai; English monastery of St Edmund, Paris, France; DD (Sorbonne, Paris) Career: Became a monk, monastery of St Edmund, Paris (1739); Prior, monastery of St Edmund, Paris (1749-1753); Procurator-General of his order, Rome (1754); Coadjutor to Bishop William York (1756); Bishop of Rama (1756); Vicar-apostolic of the western district of England (1770); his library was burnt during the Gordon riots, London (1780) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 1/11/1750.