Bond and his son George Phillips Bond discovered Saturn's moon Hyperion; it was independently co-discovered at the same time by William Lassell in Britain, and both are given credit.
When Queen Victoria visited Liverpool in 1851, Lassell was the only local she specifically requested to meet.
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Born in Bolton, a town west of Manchester, and educated in Rochdale, after the death of his father, he was apprenticed from 1814 to 1821 to a merchant in Liverpool.
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He built an observatory at his house "Starfield" in West Derby, a suburb of Liverpool.
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