Where did William Herschel go to school ??????????????????

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Answer 1

It seems that no one knows, I went through a dozen sites
Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel was born in Hannover (Germany) in 1738 as son of Issak Herschel (1707-1767), a musician in the regimental band of the Foot-Guards, and Anna Ilse (b. Moritzen). F.W. Herschel himself became also musician (an oboist) and joined his father and his brother Jacob in that band. In 1759, after experiencing the 1757 battle at Hastenbeck, he and Jacob went to England. Jacob returned to Hannover after two years, but Wilhelm (called William in England) stayed. After teaching music for some time, he became organist at Halifax in 1765, and organist and conductor at Bath in 1766.

and here too
William [Wilhelm Friedrich] Herschel was born on 15 November 1738 in Hanover, in a family of musicians. In 1757, at age 19, he fled to England. With his name anglicized to William, Herschel began earning a living as an organist and later composer and conductor. In 1772 convinced his sister Caroline to join him as an accompanying singer. In their spare time the brother-sister team became engaged in astronomy, in particular in the building of ever greater size and magnifying power. William died at his home in Slough, near Windsor, on August 25 1822, and Caroline on September 1 1848.

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Answer 2

Regarding science, he seems to have been an autodidact:

"In 1773 Wilhelm Herschels interest in astronomy suddenly grew. He read books on astronomy and bought instruments and lenses. His first telescope seems to have been an reflector of the Gregory design. But it was too small and did not satisfy him. Herschel liked a bigger instrument, but good lenses were expensive. So he had the idea of making his own mirrors. From a man in Bath he bought the equipment for pouring the metal, grinding and polishing tools and some already ground disks."

"With his name anglicized to William, Herschel began earning a living as an organist and later composer and conductor. In 1772 convinced his sister Caroline to join him as an accompanying singer. In their spare time the brother-sister team became engaged in astronomy, in particular in the building of ever greater size and magnifying power."

More and more often his pupils asked to learn not only about music, but also about astronomy. Residents and visitors of Bath asked him to have a look through his instruments. One evening the Astronomer Royal and director of the Greenwich observatory, Maskelyne, visited him, starting a long lasting friendship.

In 1779 the Herschels again moved to another place in Bath, now to 5, River Street. The reason for this is not known, the house had no garden and was unsuitable for telescope work. So Wilhelm one evening placed his telescope on the street right beside the house, when a man passing by asked to have a view of the moon. The other morning this man visited again and introduced himself as Dr William Watson, member of the Royal Society and founder of a philosophical society in Bath. He invited Herschel to join this society. Between 1779 and 1781 W. Herschel had measured the heights of about a hundred moon mountains, writing down his results. These papers were his first presented to the Royal Society by Dr Watson.

On the evening of March, 13th 1781 Herschel was working on the extension of his double star catalog when he found a bright object in an area near the star H Geminorum where the charts of Harris showed no star. Herschel suspected a comet. Observations the following nights showed a slow moving object. He reported this to Maskelyne and to Dr. Hornsby, the director of Oxford observatory. Maskelyne suggested an unknown planet while Herschel and Hornsby thought it was a comet. After collecting enough material for calculations, Lexell in St. Petersburg and Laplace in France found an orbit for a planet at twice the distance of Saturn. A new planet was found.

In November 1781 Herschel was invited to London by the Royal Society and received the Copley medal from Sir Joseph Banks, president of the society. On December 7th Herschel was informed that he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.

At the end of May 1782 Herschel left Bath for London on an invitation of King George III. He showed the royal family several planets during June and July and was offered the position of court astronomer at Windsor for an annual sum of 200 pounds. His sister was paid 50 pounds for assisting him. Herschel named the new found planet 'Georgium sidus', Georges star. Later the name Uranus, proposed by Galle in Berlin, was used by the astronomers while Herschel referred to 'Georgium sidus' all his life."

Back in those days, you didn't necessarily need a university degree to be acclaimed as a scientist.