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Luke Howard, the Glossary

Luke Howard (28 November 1772 – 21 March 1864) was a British manufacturing chemist and an amateur meteorologist with broad interests in science.^[1]

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Ackworth, West Yorkshire

Ackworth is a village and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.

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Amateur

An amateur is generally considered a person who pursues an avocation independent from their source of income.

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Askesian Society

The Askesian Society — was a debating club for scientific thinkers in London (1796-1807).

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Barrister

A barrister is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions.

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A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom, and certain other countries and territories, to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.

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Brook Street Chapel

Brook Street Chapel is a church building in Tottenham, North London.

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Burford

Burford is a town on the River Windrush, in the Cotswold hills, in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.

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Chemist

A chemist (from Greek chēm(ía) alchemy; replacing chymist from Medieval Latin alchemist) is a graduated scientist trained in the study of chemistry, or an officially enrolled student in the field.

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Chemistry

Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter.

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Cirrocumulus cloud

Cirrocumulus is one of the three main genus types of high-altitude tropospheric clouds, the other two being cirrus and cirrostratus.

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Cirrostratus cloud

Cirrostratus is a high-altitude, very thin, generally uniform stratiform genus-type of cloud.

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Cirrus cloud

Cirrus (cloud classification symbol: Ci) is a genus of high cloud made of ice crystals.

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Cloud base

A cloud base (or the base of the cloud) is the lowest altitude of the visible portion of a cloud.

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Cumulus cloud

Cumulus clouds are clouds that have flat bases and are often described as puffy, cotton-like, or fluffy in appearance.

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English Heritage

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places.

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Fellow

A fellow is a concept whose exact meaning depends on context.

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Howards and Sons

Howards and Sons was a pharmaceutical business established in 1797 by Quaker chemists William Allen and Luke Howard under the name 'Allen & Howard'.

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Hugo Hildebrand Hildebrandsson

Hugo Hildebrand Hildebrandsson (19 August 1838 – 29 July 1925) was a Swedish meteorologist and professor at Uppsala university between 1878 and 1907.

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Isaac Crewdson

Isaac Crewdson (6 June 1780 – 8 May 1844) was a minister of the Quaker meeting at Hardshaw East, Manchester. Luke Howard and Isaac Crewdson are English Quakers.

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James Hutton

James Hutton (3 June O.S. 1726 – 26 March 1797) was a Scottish geologist, agriculturalist, chemical manufacturer, naturalist and physician.

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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language.

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John Constable

John Constable (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition.

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John Dalton

John Dalton (5 or 6 September 1766 – 27 July 1844) was an English chemist, physicist and meteorologist. Luke Howard and John Dalton are English Quakers and English meteorologists.

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John Eliot Howard

John Eliot Howard (11 December 1807 – 22 November 1883) was an English chemist of the nineteenth century, who conducted pioneering work with the development of quinine. Luke Howard and John Eliot Howard are British Plymouth Brethren.

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John Hodgkin (barrister)

John Hodgkin (11 March 1800 – 5 July 1875) was an English barrister and Quaker preacher. Luke Howard and John Hodgkin (barrister) are English Quakers.

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John Opie

John Opie (16 May 1761 – 9 April 1807) was an English historical and portrait painter.

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John Ruskin

John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art historian, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era.

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Linnaean taxonomy

Linnaean taxonomy can mean either of two related concepts.

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Linnean Society of London

The Linnean Society of London is a learned society dedicated to the study and dissemination of information concerning natural history, evolution, and taxonomy.

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London Borough of Enfield

The London Borough of Enfield is a London borough in Greater London, England.

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Medication

A medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease.

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Meteorologist

A meteorologist is a scientist who studies and works in the field of meteorology aiming to understand or predict Earth's atmospheric phenomena including the weather.

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Meteorology

Meteorology is a branch of the atmospheric sciences (which include atmospheric chemistry and physics) with a major focus on weather forecasting.

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Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was an English writer who is considered as one of the major English Romantic poets.

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Pharmacist

A pharmacist, also known as a chemist in Commonwealth English, is a healthcare professional who is knowledgeable about preparation, mechanism of action, clinical usage and legislation of medications in order to dispense them safely to the public and to provide consultancy services.

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Plaistow, Newham

Plaistow is a suburban area of East London, England, within the London Borough of Newham.

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Plymouth Brethren

The Plymouth Brethren or Assemblies of Brethren are a low church and Nonconformist Christian movement whose history can be traced back to Dublin, Ireland, in the mid to late 1820s, where it originated from Anglicanism.

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Quakers

Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations.

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Ralph Abercromby (meteorologist)

Ralph Abercromby (11 February 1842 – 21 June 1897) was a Scottish meteorologist.

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Rees's Cyclopædia

Rees's Cyclopædia, in full The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature, was an important 19th-century British encyclopaedia edited by Rev.

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Royal Society

The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences.

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Stockport Rural District

Stockport was a rural district in the administrative county of Cheshire from 1894 to 1904.

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Stratford, London

Stratford is a town in East London, England, within the London Borough of Newham.

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Stratus cloud

Stratus clouds are low-level clouds characterized by horizontal layering with a uniform base, as opposed to convective or cumuliform clouds formed by rising thermals.

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Tottenham

Tottenham is a town in north London, England, within the London Borough of Haringey.

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Tottenham High Road

Tottenham High Road is the main thoroughfare through the district of Tottenham, in the London Borough of Haringey.

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Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, (commonly referred to as simply Tottenham,,, or Spurs), is a professional football club based in Tottenham, North London, England.

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Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is the home of Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur in north London, replacing the club's previous ground, White Hart Lane.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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Urban climate

The climate in urban areas differs from that in neighboring rural areas, as a result of urban development.

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Urban heat island

Urban areas usually experience the urban heat island (UHI) effect, that is, they are significantly warmer than surrounding rural areas.

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West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England.

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William Allen (English Quaker)

William Allen (29 August 1770 – 30 September 1843) was an English scientist and philanthropist who opposed slavery and engaged in schemes of social and penal improvement in early 19th-century England. Luke Howard and William Allen (English Quaker) are English Quakers.

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Winchmore Hill

Winchmore Hill is a suburb and electoral ward in the Borough of Enfield, north London, within the N21 postal district.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Howard

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See also

18th-century evangelicals

Amateur meteorologists

Down Gaelic footballers

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