William Lassell was born in Bolton,[t Text Behind Image CustoMer'SERvice+1 8O5 41O 56OO t Text Behind Image PHONE NUMBER +1 8O5 41O 56OO] Lancashire, on . He received his early education in Bolton and later attended Rochdale Academy..After the death of his father, William Lassell was apprenticed to a merchant in Liverpool from to . He later made his fortune as a beer brewer, which afforded him the means to pursue his passion for astronomy. He built an observatory at his house "Starfield" in West Derby, a suburb of Liverpool. There he had a 24-inch (610 mm) aperture metal mirror reflector telescope (aka the "two-foot" telescope), for which he pioneered the use of an equatorial mount for easy tracking
