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Richard Dunthorne
Richard Dunthorne (1711 – 3 March 1775) was an English astronomer and surveyor, who worked in Cambridge as astronomical and scientific assistant to Roger Long (master of Pembroke Hall and Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry),〔Library of St John's College, Cambridge, 2008; and Philosophical Transactions (Abridgement Series) (1809).〕 and also concurrently for many years as surveyor to the Bedford Level Corporation.
==Life and work==
There are short biographical notes of Dunthorne, one in the Philosophical Transactions (Abridgement Series, published 1809) (unsigned),〔Philosophical Transactions (Abridgement Series) (1809).〕 another in the 'Dictionary of National Biography' (vol.16), and a third by W T Lynn.〔W T Lynn, 1905.〕 Dunthorne was born in humble circumstances in Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, where he attended the free grammar-school. There he attracted the notice of Roger Long (later Master of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge), whose protégé Dunthorne became. Dunthorne moved to Cambridge where Long first appointed him as a "footboy",〔〔 and where he received some further education (though this does not seem to have been regular university education).〔He is not mentioned in Venn's ''Alumni Cantabrigienses''.〕 Dunthorne then "managed" a preparatory school in Coggeshall, Essex, and later returned to Cambridge where Long obtained for him an appointment as a "butler" at Pembroke Hall, an office that Dunthorne retained for the rest of his life. Here Dunthorne's main activity seems to have been in assisting Long in astronomical and scientific work.
Dunthorne also held an appointment for some years, concurrently with his work with Long, as superintendent of works of the Bedford Level Corporation, responsible for water management in the Fens; he began this work several years" before 1761, continuing into the 1770s.〔See remarks and footnote in Dunthorne (1761).〕〔A report from Dunthorne was made at the Bedford Level Corporation's general Whitsun meeting, 1771(Library of Congress: (Bedford Level Corporation), Eighteenth Century, reel 10978, no.02; Eighteenth century collections: Thomson Gale, 2003, Farmington Hills, Mich.)〕 In this role, Dunthorne was concerned in a survey of the fens in Cambridgeshire, and he also supervised construction of locks near Chesterton on the River Cam.〔
Dunthorne's association with Long remained lifelong, and in the end Dunthorne acted as executor of Long's will.〔
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