William Lassell
Born on 18th of June 1799
Died on 5th of October 1880
After his apprenticeship to a Liverpool merchant Lassell became a brewer, and made his fortune. Rather than devoting his life to making more money, he used his energies and financial resources in his passion – astronomy - building telescopes and observatories for them firstly in Liverpool, then in Devon, and eventually (fed up with cloud cover) in Malta, though he later returned to work in Maidenhead. Lassell was rewarded for his efforts with the discovery of Neptune’s largest moon, Triton; the co-discovery of Saturn’s moon Hyperion; and two of Uranus’s moons.
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