Peter Dollond
1731–1820
Optician and instrument maker. Founded family optical instrument business, 1750; partner with father, John (1707–61), 1752–61, brother, John (1746–1804), 1766–1804, and nephew, George (1774–1852), 1804–19. Developed improvements for refracting telescopes, and fostered the public demand for portable telescopes. Master of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers, 1774–82, 1797–9, and 1801–3. Member, American Philosophical Society.
Sources
King 1955
ODNB s.v. Dollond family
Bibliography
King, Henry C. 1955. The history of the telescope. New York: Dover Publications.
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.
