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day in 1815 |
Benjamin Herschel Babbage was born. He became an inspector for the General Board of Health visiting Haworth on the 2nd of April 1850 to examine the sanitary conditions, which Patrick Bronte had petitioned for.
First child of Charles Babbage “father of the computer" Sir John Herschel the astronomer said of him as an infant: “Young B is a hearty ugly sprawling brat and his father thinks him a patterned baby”.
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