Professor Alexander Stewart Herschel was a British astronomer.
The second son and fifth child of Sir John and Lady Margaret Herschels twelve children, Herschel was born onFebruary 1836 at Feldhausen, near Cape Town, South Africa, where they had been since 1834 for Johns astronomical work. His older brother was Sir William Herschel, 2nd Baronet, and his younger brother John Herschel the Younger was born in 1837. The family left for England onMarch 1838, returning a few weeks before Queen Victorias coronation.
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