Person Huggins; Sir; William (1824 - 1910); astronomer Huggins William Sir astronomer 1824 - 1910 British Male Stoke Newington, London, England 07 February 1824 Tulse Hill, London 12/05/1910 19100512 Burial: Golders Green, London

Upper Tulse Hill, Brixton, Surrey (1865)

Astrophysics Education: City of London School (1837-1839) Career: In business; gave up business in favour of astronomy; built an observatory at Tulse Hill; devised the star spectroscope with William Allen Miller (FRS 1845); received Civil List pension of £150 (1890); President, British Association (1891); died after a surgical operation; was cremated and his ashes buried at Golders Green. Honours: KCB 1897; OM 1902 Memberships: FRAS (1854) Son of William Thomas Huggins, silk mercer and linen draper of Gracechurch Street, London and his wife Lucy Miller of Peterborough; married (1875) Margaret Lindsay Murray, daughter of John Murray of Dublin; no children Royal Society roles: PRS 1900-1905; VP 1870-1871, 1895-1897, 1906-1907 Medals and prizes: Royal Medal 1866; Rumford Medal 1880; Copley Medal 1898 Lectures: Bakerian 1885 Fellow 01/06/1865 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc Series A 1911-1912 vol 86 pp i-xix, plate, signed by F W D References: Joan Mason, 'Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923) and the Admission of Women to the Royal Society of London' in NR 1991 vol 45 pp 201-220 Vanity Fair 09 April 1903 R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84 F Kurzer, 'The life and work of Charles Tomlinson FRS: A Career in Victorian Science and Technology' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 203-226 ©The Royal Society 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 https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-9276 7 Feb 1824 - 12 May 1910 NA7376 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/17378802 b9e9b032-f30e-462e-8001-25fe4d838d49