| Authorised form of name | Todd; Sir; Charles (1826 - 1910) |
| Dates | 1826 - 1910 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Islington, London, England |
| Date of birth | 07 July 1826 |
| Place of death | Adelaide, Australia |
| Date of death | 29/01/1910 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Adelaide, Australia |
| Activity | Education:
MA (Camb)
Career:
Supernumerary Computer, Royal Observatory, Greenwich (1841-47); Assistant Observer, Adelaide, South Australia (1848-1854); Director, Adelaide Observatory (1855-1906); Postmaster-General, Superintendent of Telegraphs, and Government Astronomer; organized meteorological service and telegraphic system
Honours:
CMG 1872; KCMG 1893
Memberships:
FRAS
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 06/06/1889 |
| Relationships | Elder son of George Todd, grocer, of Greenwich; married (1855) Alice Gillam, daughter of Edward Bell of Cambridge; father-in-law of Sir William Henry Bragg (FRS 1907) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1911 vol 85 pp xiii-xvii signed by W H B
References:
John G Jenkin, 'The Appointment of W H Bragg, FRS, to the University of Adelaide' in NR 1985-86 vol 40 pp 75-99
Notes:
See Conservation record |
| Code | NA8291 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1889/15 | Todd, Sir Charles: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/11/591 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Charles Todd, Fellow of the Royal Society | 30 July 1895 |
| NLB/19/753 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Charles Todd, Fellow of the Royal Society | 11 December 1899 |
| NLB/19/827 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Ralph Wheatley Odgers Kestel | 3 January 1900 |
| NLB/35/519 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Charles Todd, Fellow of the Royal Society | 7 June 1907 |
| NLB/40/625 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Charles Todd KCMG, FRS | 8 July 1909 |
| NLB/5/767 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to H Todd, The Observatory, Cambridge | 7 October 1891 |
| NLB/3/430 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Charles Todd, Fellow of the Royal Society, the Observatory, Adelaide | 7 June 1889 |
| MS/516/9/1 | Letter from [Charles]Todd, Adelaide, and [Charles] Meldrum, Mauritius, collected by the [Royal Society Krakatoa Committee] | February 1884 |