"Those who take an interest in the scientific side of their profession and particularly so in studying the tides, will hear with deep regret of the death of the Lancaster Harbour Master, Captain W.N. Greenwood, F.R.G.S., who expired suddenly in Lancaster Castle Station. Captain Greenwood was an officer in the Cunard Line before taking up the harbour-mastership which he held for so very many years and, as it afforded him greater leisure, he was able to pursue his studies all the deeper.

Thomas Gwyn Empy Elger (27 October 1836 – 9 January 1897) was an English lunar mapper and the first director of the Lunar Section of the British Astronomical Association (BAA). Elger was a member of several astronomical associations, such as the Royal Astronomical Society, the short-lived Selenographical Society and the British Astronomical Association. Besides his astronomical work, he was an ardent archaeologist and founded the Bedfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club. He is remembered by the lunar crater Elger.

William Augustus Rogers, Professor of Physics and Astronomy in Colby University, Waterville, Maine, was born at Waterford, Connecticut, on November 13, 1832, and graduated at Brown University in 1857. Soon afterwards he became Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Alfred University, in the State of New York.

By 1863, the wires from the Montreal Telegraph office had been laid into the Observatory to connect it with the principal places in the United States because the President of Grand Trunk Railway had proposed that there be an observatory in Montreal, and that the University might offer a ‘sight’. All the American railways were recommending astronomical observatories to provide reliable time-keeping. Dr.

Paul-Pierre Henry (Paul Henry) (21 August 1848 – 4 January 1905) and his brother Mathieu-Prosper Henry (Prosper Henry) (10 December 1849 – 25 July 1903) were French opticians and astronomers.

 

KING, WILLIAM FREDERICK, surveyor, astronomer, and civil servant; b. 19 Feb. 1854 in Stowmarket, England, son of William King and Ellen Archer; m. 21 Dec. 1881 Augusta Florence Snow, daughter of John Allan Snow, in Ottawa, and they had four sons and two daughters; d. near there 23 April 1916.

 

Agnes Mary Clerke (10 February 1842 – 20 January 1907) was an astronomer and writer, mainly in the field of astronomy. She was born in Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland, and died in London.

 

Agnes Clerke was the daughter of John Willis Clerke (ca. 1814-1890) and his wife Margaret (b. ca. 1819). Her father was a judge's registrar.

 

Gore was born at Athlone on 1845, June 1. The eldest son of the Venerable John Ribton Gore, Archdeacon of Athenry. He was educated privately and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he took an engineering degree in 1865, being first in his year. In 1868, he gained second place in the open competition for the Indian Public Works Department. He was posted to the Punjab, as Assistant Engineer in connection with the construction of the Sirhind Canal. His career in India was relatively short - about eleven years.

Generations of the Proctor family have made great contributions to the popularization of astronomy.