William Henry Dines [SEP] date of death
William Henry Dines
William Henry Dines BA FRS (5 August 1855 – 24 December 1927) was an English meteorologist.
Dines was born in London, the son of George Dines, also a meteorologist. He was educated at Woodcote House school, Windlesham, and afterwards entered Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he obtained a first-class in the mathematical tripos in 1881. He afterwards carried out investigations for the Royal Meteorological Society on the subject of wind forces, and in connexion with this work designed the Dines pressure
meteorological and astronomical phenomena.
On the 9 December 1815, months after his father's death, the principle gamekeeper Charles Dines at the family seat Southill Park was murdered by a poacher. Whitbread retained an interest in the welfare of Dines' family over many years. Three generations of distinguished meteorologists were descended from Dines including William Henry Dines and John Somers Dines.
Family.
Whitbread lived at the family seat Southill Park and in London. After his elder brother William Henry Whitbread died without heirs in 1867, Samuel Charles