Father of Sir William Henry Mahoney Christie (FRS 1881)
Source
Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc 1866-1867 vol 15 pp xi-xiv References: Ronald Anderson, 'The Referees' Assessment of Faraday's Electromagnetic Induction Paper of 1831' in NR 1993 vol 47 pp 243-256 James Gabriel O'Hara, 'Gauss and the Royal Society: The Reception of His Ideas on Magnetism in Britain (1832-1842)' in NR 1983-84 vol 38 pp 17-78 K K Schwarz, 'Faraday and Babbage' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp367-381 Notes: Citation: one word deliberately obscured
Experiments and Observations on the Rotation of an Iron Plate 18 inches in diameter as affecting the Magnetic Needle as suggested by S H Christie Esq of Woolwich