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:''This subject should not be confused with John Hellins, 1829–87, clergyman and entomologist''.〔(John Hellins, 1829–87, clergyman and entomologist: Darwin correspondence project database ), which lists this Hellins as one of Charles Darwin's correspondents. It is not known whether the two John Hellinses were related.〕 John Hellins FRS (ca. 1749 – 5 April 1827) was an autodidact, schoolteacher, mathematician, astronomer and country parson.〔(The transcribed Burial Records of Potterspury ), at http://www.potterspury.org.uk/fhs/pr/pury/burial_h.htm , show his age at death as 78.〕 ==Early years== He was born in Devon ca. 1749, the son of a poor family, and the parish apprenticed him to a cooper.〔R. E. Anderson, (‘Hellins, John (d. 1827)’ ), rev. Adrian Rice, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008, accessed 13 December 2009〕 He became a schoolteacher and through hard work and patronage became assistant to Nevil Maskelyne, the Astronomer Royal in 1773.〔. An early scientific paper was: "Theorems for Computing Logarithms." By the Rev. John Hellins; Communicated by the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne, D. D., F. R. S. and Astronomer Royal,in ''Philosophical Transactions Series I'',(1780), volume 70, pages 307–317 [Referred to by [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1780RSPT...70..307H Smithsonian/NASA ADS Astronomy Abstract Service.]〕
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