Portrait of John Couch Adams (1819-1882) Barrett's London Hat Warehouse (late 1950s

(late 1950s

the clock tower is now at Swanage in Dorset

each man hides behind his back the birch with which he hopes to belabour the opposition during the new session

He was a distant relative of William of Prussia

David Lawson

Portrait of John Couch Adams (1819-1882) Barrett's London Hat Warehouse (late 1950sFull length studio portrait of J C Adams, seated and posed at a writing desk with a pen poised over paper in his right hand, the left holding what appears to be a letter. Behind the sitter is a curtain or drape. Printed below the image: 'MAULL & POLYBLANK, LONDON'. John Couch Adams was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1849. Original: albumen print, carte de visite. ca. 1860