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Authorised form of nameGrove-Hills; Edmond Herbert (1864 - 1922)
Other forms of nameEdmond Herbert Grove-
Other forms of surnameHills
Hills
Dates1864 - 1922
Date of birth01 August 1864
Date of death02/10/1922
OccupationSoldier
Research fieldAstronomy
ActivityEducation:
Winchester College
Career:
Major
Honours:
CMG 1901; CBE 1918
Memberships:
RE
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election04/05/1911
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1922-1923 vol 102 pp xx-xxii signed by F W D
References:
H G L, 'A Fragment of History' in NR 1938 vol 1 pp 28-31
Notes:
Elected with surname Hills, which was later changed to Grove-Hills.
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/263603943
Royal Society codeNA6941
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1911/07Grove-Hills, Edmond Herbert: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/20/338Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Captain Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, [Fellow of the Royal Society]26 March 1900
NLB/16/762Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain E H Hills2 June 1898
NLB/16/455Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain E H Hills6 April 1898
NLB/17/780Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Captain Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, [Fellow of the Royal Society] 19 December 1898
NLB/17/561Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, Secretary of the Join Permanent Eclipse Committee18 November 1898
NLB/20/56Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, [Fellow of the Royal Society]23 January 1900
NLB/17/778Copy letter from Michael Foster and Arthur William Rucker, to Captain Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, [Fellow of the Royal Society] Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, Royal Astronomical Society 20 December 1898
NLB/19/824Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, [Fellow of the Royal Society], 32 Princes Square, S.W.3 January 1900
NLB/19/388Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Captain Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Secretary to the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee11 September 1899
NLB/19/837Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, Royal Astronomical Society5 January 1900
NLB/19/228Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee15 July 1899
NLB/20/757Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills30 October 1900
NLB/20/492Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills5 May 1900
NLB/20/474Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee1 May 1900
NLB/20/451Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Captain Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, [Fellow of the Royal Society]26 April 1900
NLB/20/576Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, Royal Navy23 May 1900
NLB/21/75Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee25 July 1900
NLB/21/751Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Secretary of the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee24 January 1901
NLB/21/729Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, Secretary of the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee19 January 1901
NLB/23/1/309Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, Royal Astronomical Society23 October 1901
NLB/23/1/441Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee14 November 1901
NLB/23/1/557Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, [Fellow of the Royal Society]2 December 1901
NLB/23/1/410Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, [Fellow of the Royal Society]8 November 1901
NLB/25/638Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Major Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, Royal Astronomical Society, [Fellow of the Royal Society]2 December 1902
NLB/25/733Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Major Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills17 December 1902
NLB/31/685Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Major Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills1 November 1905
NLB/30/675Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Major [Edmond Herbert Grove-]Hills, [Fellow of the Royal Society]5 May 1905
NLB/29/559Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Major Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, [Fellow of the Royal Society]4 November 1904
NLB/32/222Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Major Edmond Herbert Hills, Secretary of the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee30 January 1906
NLB/33/670Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Major Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, Secretary, Joint Eclipse Committee, care of Royal Astronomical Society18 October 1906
NLB/32/655Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Major Edmond Herbert Hills30 April 1906
NLB/41/348Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Major [Edmond Herbert] Hills, [Fellow of the Royal Society]25 November 1909
NLB/43/427Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Major [Edmond Herbert Grove] Hills, [Fellow of the Royal Society]10 January 1911
NLB/43/300Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Major [Edmond Herbert Grove] Hills, [Fellow of the Royal Society]9 December 1910
NLB/44/143Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Major E [Edmond] H [Herbert] Hills FRS 16 May 1911
NLB/43/358Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Major [Edmond Herbert Grove] Hills, [Fellow of the Royal Society]16 December 1910
NLB/43/361Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Major [Edmond Herbert Grove] Hills, [Fellow of the Royal Society]16 December 1910
NLB/44/391Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison [signed by Theodore E James] to Messrs Harrison & Sons3 July 1911
NLB/44/819Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Major E [Edmond] H [Herbert] Hills CMG, FRS20 November 1911
NLB/44/642Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Major E [Edmond] H [Herbert] Hills CMG, FRS, Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee6 October 1911
NLB/48/514Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Major [Edmond Herbert Grove] Hills, Fellow of the Royal Society18 July 1913
NLB/48/69Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Major [Edmond Herbert Grove] Hills, Fellow of the Royal Society5 May 1913
NLB/50/713Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Major [Edmond Herbert Grove] Hills, Fellow of the Royal Society19 October 1914
NLB/50/744Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Mayor [Edmond Herbert Grove] Hills, Fellow of the Royal Society27 October 1914
NLB/54/251Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Colonel [Edmond Herbert] Hills, FRS15 March 1917
NLB/54/246Copy letter from Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to Colonel [Edmond Herbert] Hills, FRS15 March 1917
NLB/58/148Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary to the Royal Society; to General [Edmond Herbert Grove] Hills, FRS19 March 1920
MS/929/1/91Letter from [Edmond Herbert] Grove-Hills, the Royal Institution, FRS, Albermarle Street, Picadilly, to James Mackenzie Davidson8 May 1916
RR/18/163Referee's report by Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, on a paper 'Pendulum clocks and their errors' by Henry Reginald Arnulph MallockJune 1911
NLB/60/126Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Colonel [Edmond Herbert] Grove-Hills, FRS11 December 1920
NLB/57/879Copy letter from Sir William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to General EH [Edmond Herbert Grove] Hills, FRS26 February 1920
NLB/63/483Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Frank Dyson, FRS27 October 1922
NLB/63/380Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Editor, "The Times"05 October 1922
CD/73/27Letter from [Major Edmond Herbert Grove Hills], 32 Prince's Gardens, S.W., to [Herbert Hall] Turner6 February 1912
NLB/19/458Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, [Fellow of the Royal Society]6 October 1899
NLB/21/617Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, Secretary of the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee19 December 1900
NLB/31/292Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Major [Edmond Herbert Grove-]Hills, [Fellow of the Royal Society]24 July 1905
NLB/16/566Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker and Michael Foster, to Captain E H Hills, Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, W.29 April 1898
NLB/19/783Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Captain Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, [Fellow of the Royal Society]18 December 1899
NLB/20/66Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker and Michael Foster, to Captain Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, Secretary to the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, Burlington House, W. 24 January 1900
NLB/20/812Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills, [Fellow of the Royal Society]12 July 1900
NLB/16/642Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain E H Hills, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee11 May 1898
MC/17Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1897-1899
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