Coxwell, HENRY TRACEY

Coxwell, HENRY TRACEY, aéronaut, born in 1819, at Woudham, near Rochester, was educated for the army, but settled as a surgeon-dentist in London. From boyhood he had taken a keen interest in ballooning; in 1844 he became a professional aéronaut, and in 1845 established the Aérostatie Magazine. Since then he made some 700 ascents, the most remarkable being that of 1862, when he reached, with Mr Glaisher, a height of seven miles. He published My Life and Ballooning Adventures (2 vols. 1887-88), and died 5th January 1900. See BALLOON.