His uncle Thomas Mudge was a famous horologist. After his retirement and return to England he became an antiquarian horologist. He was a notable horologist who succeeded David Ramsay. The early Song Dynasty horologist Zhang Sixun (fl. He was a passionate horologist and collector of watches. He was proposed by Jean-Hyacinthe Magellan and seconded by horologist John Whitehurst. Swiss horologist Jacques Albert migrated to Sydney in 1884 with his family. His younger brother was the horologist Frank Hope-Jones. Rupert Gould (1890-1948, Royal Navy officer and horologist) lived at Barford in later life. And his ambition to be a horologist.