Francis Baily
Astronomer. Most famous for his observations of "Baily's beads" during a total eclipse of the Sun. Baily was also a major figure in the early history of the Royal Astronomical Society, as one of th...
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George Biddell Airy
Mathematician and astronomer, as well as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics 1826-28 and the seventh Astronomer Royal 1835-81. His many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring th...
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Richard Sheepshanks
Astronomer. Trained as a barrister and also as a Church of England minister. But he inherited enough wealth that he instead was a practicing astronomer at Trinity College Cambridge. Publicly critic...
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John Couch Adams
Mathematician and astronomer. Born Cornwall and died Cambridge. His most famous achievement was predicting the existence and position of Neptune, using only mathematics. He also explained the origi...
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Jeremiah Horrocks
Astronomer. He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit; and he was the only person to predict the transit of Venus of 1639, an event which he...
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John Raymond Smith
Sculptor. The Flamsteed bust is the only work that we can find. Our colleague, Andrew Behan, states that The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, website has two listings: 'A bust of Flamsteed sculpted ...
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John Flamsteed
Astronomer, the first Astronomer Royal. His main achievements were the preparation of a 3,000-star catalogue, Catalogus Britannicus, and a star atlas called Atlas Coelestis, both published posthumo...
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Reginald Blunt, CBE
Chelsea historian, son of Gerald Blunt. A founding member of the Chelsea Society and author of books on Chelsea's history. This portrait is by Walter Greaves. Photo credit: Kensington and Chelsea ...
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George William Osborn
Businessman and politician. Member of the Chelsea Vestry Hall Building Committee in 1885. And, as acting-Chairman of the Vestry, he laid the stone for the new Vestry Hall in 1885. Chairman of the ...
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Henry Young
Member of the Chelsea Vestry Hall Building Committee in 1885. One of the Commissioners on the Chelsea Library Committee in 1890.
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