The Herschel Baronetcy, of

Slough Slough () is a town and unparished area in the unitary authority of the same name in Berkshire, England, bordering west London. It lies in the Thames Valley, west of central London and north-east of Reading, at the intersection of the M4 ...

in the County of Buckingham, was a title in the

Baronetage of the United Kingdom Baronets are a rank in the British aristocracy. The current Baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier but existing Baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland, and Great Britain. Baronetage of England (1611–1705) James I of E ...

. It was created on 17 July 1838 for

John Herschel Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet (; 7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, experimental photographer who invented the blueprint and did botanical wor ...

, son of the famous

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Sir William Herschel Frederick William Herschel (; german: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German-born British astronomer and composer. He frequently collaborated with his younger sister and fellow astronomer Caroline H ...

, and a well-known astronomer in his own right. "Herschel, Sir John Frederick William 1792–1871 astronomer" (biography),

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project,

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became extinct on the death of the third baronet on 15 June 1950.

Herschel baronets, of Slough (1838)

* Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet (1792–1871) * Sir William James Herschel, 2nd Baronet (1833–1917) *Rev. Sir John Frederick Charles Herschel, F.R.A.S., 3rd Baronet (1869–1950)

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