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= Bindon Blood Stoney =

Early Life and Education
Bindon Blood Stoney is an Irish engineer who was born in Oakley Park, County Offaly, on June 13, 1828. He is widely acknowledged as having made significant contributions to Astronomy. Stoney was the second child and son of George Stoney and Anne Stoney, the second daughter of Bindon Blood ('The Vampire') of Cranagher and Rockforest, Clare. Bindon Blood Stoney had an older brother,George Johnstone Stoney, a mathematical physicist, and a sister who married her cousin William Fitzgerald, who eventually became Bishop of Cork and Killaloe.

Stoney was privately home-schooled for his education. During the post-Napoleonic slump, his father's assets lost value and were eventually auctioned during the Famine of 1845-1852.

Unfortunately, Bindon Blood Stoney's father died when he was a young boy, forcing his mother to relocate to Dublin with her four children and sell the family home. Stoney attended Trinity College Dublin in 1845. He began his time here with an obligatory year in Arts, and graduated with honours with a bachelor's degree and a civil engineering diploma. He graduated in 1850. His brother, George, also graduated from Trinity College.

He then went to William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse's observatory in Parsonstown (Birr) to aid with astronomical observations made at the time with the world's largest telescope. This was built in Birr Castle, Offaly. He improved on previously known nebula delineation and discovered the spiral nature of Andromeda's great nebula.