Dead Astronomers !!!

[ziksby]

!!:eek:
In addition to researching my family history, I'm looking for amatuer/ professional astronomers of yesteryear (like the unknown man below, from my postcard collection).
http://www.geocities.com/ziksby/grubbmount.JPG

I'm a council member for the Society for the History of Astronomy. We are conducting a survey of the UK and Ireland to record and archive as much information as possible about astronomers and observatories. If you come across such information please let me know. Manythanks.

[ziksby]

Don't you just love 'em.
Wait for one for ages ....... then 3 come along all at once.
No ... not buses .... dead astronomers!
And on my own doorstep too .... well, my hometown anyway.
I was examining an online Victorian map when the word "observatory" jumped out at me. It was on the Davenham estate in Malvern, Worcs. the home of the Perrins family of Worcester Sauce and Worcester Porcelain fame. Further research revealed that James Dyson Perrins, his son Charles W Dyson Perrins and Charles's brother-in-law, the Rev. Beresford Potter were all amatuer astronomers and Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Now its back to the maps and the RAS obituaries.