Member of the South Australian Parliament for Encounter Bay
In office 9 March 1857 – 17 December 1857
Serving with Arthur Lindsay
Preceded by
New district
Succeeded by
Henry Strangways
Personal details
Born
6 August 1815 London, United Kingdom
Died
22 October 1878(1878-10-22) (aged 63) St. Mary's, South Australia
Spouse
Laura Jones
(m. 1839–1878)
Children
7
Parent(s)
Charles Babbage (father) Georgiana Whitmore (mother)
Relatives
William Wolryche-Whitmore (uncle)
Benjamin Herschel Babbage (6 August 1815 – 22 October 1878) was an English engineer, scientist, explorer and politician, best known for his work in the colony of South Australia. He invariably signed his name "B. Herschel Babbage" and was frequently referred to as "Herschel Babbage". He was the son of English mathematician and inventor, Charles Babbage.
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century; BenjaminHerschelBabbage conducted an inspection in 1850 (as he had the same year for the West Yorkshire town of Haworth). Babbage was horrified...
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for the terms March 1857 – April 1860, when his colleagues were BenjaminHerschelBabbage and Henry Strangways. He was succeeded by (the unrelated) John...
this until 1861. While it was being rented it was sketched by BenjaminHerschelBabbage who at this time was a young engineer who liked to sketch scenes...
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The coining of the word "photography" is usually attributed to Sir John Herschel in 1839. It is based on the Greek φῶς (phōs; genitive phōtos), meaning...
her opinion this deadlock was not broken until 1816, when Charles Babbage, John Herschel and George Peacock published a translation of the lectures of Sylvestre...
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award was made. The first woman to receive the Gold Medal was Caroline Herschel in 1828. No other woman received the award until Vera Rubin in 1996. Margaret...
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notations for inverse function.— […] The use of Herschel's notation underwent a slight change in Benjamin Peirce's books, to remove the chief objection...
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Chios, killing the Kapudan Pasha Nasuhzade Ali Pasha. July 3 – Charles Babbage publishes a proposal for a difference engine, a forerunner of the modern...
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