John Couch Adams - Memorials

Memorials

  • Memorial in Westminster Abbey with a portrait medallion, by Albert Bruce-Joy;
  • A bust, by Joy in the hall of St John's College, Cambridge;
  • Another youthful bust belongs to the Royal Astronomical Society;
  • Portraits by:
    • Hubert von Herkomer in Pembroke College;
    • Paul Raphael Montord in the combination room of St John's;
  • There is a memorial tablet, with an inscription by Archbishop Benson in Truro Cathedral;
  • Passmore Edwards erected a public institute in his honour at Launceston, near his birthplace.
  • Adams Nunatak, a nunatak on Neptune Glacier in Alexander Island in Antarctica, is named after him

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