Cooke Telescope Tales - Charles Pritchard and his telescope

Charles Pritchard FRAS (1808-1893) Hurst Hill on the Isle of Wight purchased from Thomas Cooke & Sons in 1865 an equatorial mounting for his Cooke telescope. I can only assume he wanted to upgrade the mounting for the telescope he had . In the late 1850s Pritchard had purchased from Cooke & Sons a 6.75 inch telescope. Pritchard was elected Savilian professor of Astronomy at Oxford University in…