Donation to JHI to fund new Moses Holden Studentship
This year we are delighted to announce the first Moses Holden Post-graduate Studentship, in memory of one of the University’s Founders in 1828, Moses Holden (1777-1864).
This has been funded by a donation that has set up the Moses Holden Studentship Fund, from Mr Patrick Holden, his great great great great grandson.
Moses was a keen Astronomer, who gave public lectures in Astronomy in Preston and across the North of England and the Midlands throughout the 19th Century.
For his lectures he had constructed a large orrery, with which he demonstrated the motions of the Earth, the Moon and the planets in the solar system. He projected an image of the orrery onto a large screen and filled theatres with enthusiastic members of the public, who paid to hear about the latest advances in astronomy.
To apply for the Moses Holden Studentship see:
http://www.star.uclan.ac.uk/news_and_events/studentships/
To purchase a copy of Moses Holden’s biography by Stephen Halliwell, see:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Holden-1777-1864-Preston-Astronomer-Eclipsed/dp/178465115X