William Derham (26 November 1657 – 5 April 1735) was an English clergyman and natural philosopher. He produced the earliest, reasonably accurate estimate of the speed of sound.
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“In enterprise of martial kind,
When there was any fighting,
He led his regiment from behind—
He found it less exciting.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)