Talk:William Ascroft

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Renaming in William Ascroft

On the net he's tipically named William Ashcroft. However he was among some painters hired to attest the appearance of the English sky after the Krakatoa explosion by the Royal Society. In the report The Eruption of Krakatoa and Subsequent Phenomena published in 1888 he's mentioned three times as "Ascroft", e.g. see this.--Shivanarayana (talk) 15:58, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]