Person Lockyer; Sir; Joseph Norman (1836 - 1920) Lockyer Joseph Norman Sir Norman 1836 - 1920 British Male Rugby, Warwickshire, England 17 May 1836 Salcombe Regis, Devon 16/08/1920 19200816

24 Victoria Road, Finchley Road, London (1869); Salcombe Regis, Devon (upon retirement)

Astrophysics Career: Joined the Civil Service; Clerk in the War Office; Editor of Army 'Regulations' (1865); pioneered spectroscopy; transferred to the Science and Art Department; Director of the Solar Physics Observatory when the Royal College of Science was founded (1890-1913); founding editor of the journal Nature (1869-1919) Honours: CB 1894; KCB 1897 Son of Joseph Hooley Lockyer, physician of Rugby, and his wife Anne, daughter of Edward Norman of Cosford, Warwickshire. Married: 1) (1858) Winifred, daughter of William James of Trebeshon, near Abergavenny (she died 1879); 2) (1903) Thomazine Mary Young, daughter of Samuel Woolcott Browne and widow of Bernard Edward Broadhurst FRCS Royal Society Education section wrote letter of support for the Observatory and its 20-inch telescope project. The Royal Society's letter will be used to support applications for funding assistance from the Lottery and other similar organisations. The Lockyer observatory also received letters of support from the Royal Institution and British Association. In December 2007, the photographic plate collection from the former South Kensington Observatory, including much of Sir Norman Lockyer's work on star spectra, was transferred from the Cambridge Institute of Astronomy to reside with the Lockyer Observatory collection of photographic plates and will be kept alongside the instruments to which these relate. The collections have significance in the history of astrophysics. Royal Society roles: VP 1892-1893 Medals and prizes: Rumford Medal 1874 Lectures: Bakerian 1874 and 1888 Fellow 03/06/1869 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc Series A 1923 vol 104 pp i-xiv, plate, signed by A F International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 17 May 1836 - 16 Aug 1920 NA6349 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/44377464 e4471517-6536-413d-9984-435f86ee186c