Date: Friday 3 April 2020
Time: 11:00 - 14:30
Location:Hartwell House
Oxford Road
Vale of Aylesbury
Buckinghamshire HP17 8NR
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Due to the current situation with regards to the Coronavirus outbreak Hartwell House have decided to postpone this event. If you have booked to attend the event they will be in contact with you directly.
On Friday 3rd April, Professor Liz Bentley, Chief Executive of the Royal Meteorological Society will be giving a talk at Hartwell House as part of the Society’s 170th Anniversary celebrations.
On this day in 1850, ten gentlemen assembled in the library of Hartwell House. According to the minutes of the meeting, they gathered "to form a society, the objects of which should be the advancement and extension of meteorological science by determining the laws of climate and of meteorological phenomena in general". This was the inaugural meeting of what would become the Royal Meteorological Society. Liz will provide a historical insight into the extraordinary backgrounds of some of those men who shaped this new Society including James Glaisher, recently portrayed in the biographical adventure film The Aeronauts, and Dr John Lee, the owner of Hartwell House at that time.
Starting with tea or coffee at 11.00am in the Library - the very place where the inaugural meeting of the Royal Meteorological Society took place - then followed by this fascinating talk, and concluding with a two-course lunch with a glass of wine and coffee.
