Person Ball; Sir; Robert Stawell (1840 - 1913) Ball Robert Stawell Sir 1840 - 1913 Male Dublin, Ireland 01 July 1840 Cambridge 25/11/1913 19131125 Burial: St Giles' cemetery, now Ascension Cemetery, Cambridge

47 Wellington Place, Dublin (1873)

Astronomy Education: Trinity College, Dublin. LLD Career: Tutor to the sons of William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (FRS 1831) (1865-1867) owner of the six-foot relecting trelescope, then the largest in the world; Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mechanism, Royal College of Science, Dublin; Professor of Astronomy, University of Dublin (1874-1892); Astronomer Royal for Ireland; Lowndean Professor of Astronomy, Cambridge University (1893-1913); his eyesight failed and his right eye was removed (1887); Christmas lectures at the Royal Institution Honours: Kt 1886 Memberships: MRIA; FRAS Son of Robert Ball, clerk in Dublin Castle, and his wife Amelia Gresley Hellicar, of Bristol; elder brother of Valentine Ball (FRS 1882); married (1868) Frances Elizabeth, daughter of W E Steele; father-in-law of Sir Joseph Barcroft (FRS 1910) Fellow 12/06/1873 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc Series A 1914-1915 vol 91 pp xvii-xxi signed by F W D and G T B References: Vanity Fair 13 April 1905 ©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 'The Theory of the Screws: A Study in the Dynamics of a Rigid Body' 1876; 'The Story of the Heavens' ; https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-7754 1 Jul 1840 - 25 Nov 1913 NA7578 21/11/2001 Andyg pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/64100966 5c95d904-0f9f-4793-8f06-0c89fc032aa3