Mr John Mc Landsborough 1820-1900 of the exchange, Bradford
exhibited a large equatorial telescope made by Thomas Cooke and Sons of York at
the Yorkshire Exhibition at Leeds in June 1875. Unfortunately I do not know the size of
this telescope.
John Mc Landsborough was
a civil engineer, born in Scotland his family moved to Otley in Yorkshire where
the young John was educated at the Grammar School in Otley. He later moved to
Bradford where he established a meteorological station. He was always interested
in astronomy and apart from the Cooke telescope he also had a reflecting
telescope made by Browning
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