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II. HERSCHEL'S removal from Bath to Datchet appears to have been brought about by the unwillingness he felt, at the time of his visit to London, to continue the toils of teaching, which, with the tastes he had now formed, his sister tells us, “appeared to him an intolerable waste of time,” and he chose rather the alternative of a salary of 200l. from the king. “Never bought monarch honour so cheap!” exclaimed his friend Sir Thomas Watson, to whom alone the sum was mentioned, all other inquirers being simply assured that “the king had provided for him.” From letters received by the family at Bath during Herschel's stay in London, they had been led to infer that the king would not suffer him to return to his profession again. Herschel took part in the musical service at St. Margaret's Chapel at Bath for the last time on Whit-Sunday, 1782, when the anthem for the day was of his own composition.
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HIND, J. Sir William Herschel 1 . Nature 23, 453–455 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023453a0
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