Potterspury History Group
Wednesday, 25th September 2024 at 7.30 pm
Potterspury Village Hall, 27 Church End, Potterspury, Towcester NN12 7PX
Speaker: .Steve Parkin.
Find out more about the founder of Potterspury’s school and his important contribution to science.
John Hellins FRS (c. 1749 – 1827) was a British schoolteacher, mathematician, astronomer and the Potterspury parson for more than 36 years. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1796 and hree years later he was awarded the Copley Medal largely for his paper on computing the perturbations of planets.