Brewster, Sir David
(male)
12/10/1781 - 02/10/1868
Scottish
University of Edinburgh
Scientist; founded Scottish Society of Arts; principal of Univ. of St. Andrews; invented lens for lighthouses, kaleidoscope; wrote Treatise on the Microscope (1837), Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler (1841), other works. See Boase I: 394, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)