| Authorised form of name | Grubb; Sir; Howard (1844 - 1931) |
| Dates | 1844 - 1931 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Dublin, Ireland |
| Date of birth | February or 28 July 1844 |
| Place of death | Monkstown, Ireland |
| Date of death | 16 or 17 September 1931 |
| Occupation | Engineer; Optician |
| Research field | Optical engineering |
| Activity | Education:
Trinity College, Dublin; Honorary Master in Engineering, Trinity College, Dublin (1876)
Career:
Took over his father's optical works, Dublin; constructed large telescopes for the British and Colonial governments including the 'Great Melbourne Telescope' and the 'Great Vienna Refractor'; worked on periscopes for the Royal Navy; Scientific Advisor to the Commissioners of Irish Lights; awarded Boyle Medal of the Royal Dublin Society (1912)
Honours:
Kt 1887
Memberships:
FRAS; FRDS
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 07/06/1883 |
| Relationships | Youngest son of Thomas Grubb (FRS 1864); married (1871) Mary Hester, daughter of George Hamilton Walker MD of Louisiana, USA |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB; Irish Innovators
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1932 vol 135 pp iv-ix, plate, signed by S S C
References:
A A Mills and R Hall, 'The Production of a Plane Surface. As Illustrated by Specula From Some Early Newtonian Telescopes' in NR 1982-83 vol 37 pp 147-166
Notes:
DSB gives birth and death dates as February 1844 and 17 September 1931 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/37678679 |
| Code | NA8229 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| MM/12/131 | Letter from Howard Grubb, Dublin, to William Huggins | 15 September 1880 |
| MM/12/95 | Copy of a letter from H Grubb to David Gill | 12 November 1879 |
| NLB/2/400 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Howard Grubb, Fellow of the Royal Society | 30 May 1888 |
| NLB/3/219 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr G S Waterlow, Finsbury Stationery Works, Clifton Street, E.C. | 12 April 1889 |
| NLB/8/324 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Howard Grubb, Fellow of the Royal Society, 51 Kenilworth Square, Rathgar, Dublin | 2 October 1893 |
| NLB/15/441 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Howard Grubb, Fellow of the Royal Society | 5 October 1897 |
| NLB/15/460 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Howard Grubb, Fellow of the Royal Society | 7 October 1897 |
| NLB/15/431 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Robarts Lubbock & Company, 15 Lombard Street, E.C. | [2 October 1897] |
| NLB/40/318 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Howard Grubb FRS | 24 May 1909 |
| NLB/43/42 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Howard Grubb, Fellow of the Royal Society | 26 October 1910 |
| MC/27/142 | Letter from Howard Grubb, Rathmines, Dublin, to Sir Joseph Larmor, [Royal Society] | 10 August 1912 |
| IM/001811 | Grubb, Sir Howard | 1922 |
| EC/1883/11 | Grubb, Sir Howard: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/5/750 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Howard Grubb, Fellow of the Royal Society | 5 October 1891 |
| MC/9/125 | Letter from Howard Grubb, Dublin, to Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, London | 29 September 1870 |
| MC/9 | Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1870-June 1873 |
| MC/24/172 | Letter from [George] Johnstone Stoney, 30 Chepstow Crescent, London, to [Joseph] Larmor, [Royal Society] | 12 May 1909 |