George Huggins (1797–1852)
George Dollond (1852–1866)
1797–1866
Optician and instrument maker. Apprenticed in 1812 to his uncle George Dollond (1774–1852) in the family optical business, which had been established in 1750. Inherited the business and changed his surname from Huggins, 1852. Business premises at 59 St Paul’s Churchyard and 61 Paternoster Row, London.
Source
ODNB s.v. Dollond family
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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