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Christie taught mathematics at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich from 1838 until his retirement in 1854 . A portrait photograph of Christie in 1865 by Ernest Edwards is held by the National Portrait Gallery . His eldest son was the astronomer William Henry Mahoney Christie ( 1845 - 1922 ).


MARRIAGES

#Elizabeth Theadora (died c.1844; source: Posting on RootsWeb )
#Margaret Ellen (married c.1844; source: Woolwich churchyard inscription )


REFERENCES

  • 1. "Experimental Determination of the Laws of Magneto-electric Induction in different masses of the same metal, and its intensity in different metals.", Royal Society Bakerian Lecture, 1833.

  • 2. "An Account of Several New Instruments and Processes for Determining the Constants of a Voltaic Circuit", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol. 133, 1843, pp. 303--329.