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Authorised form of nameCommon; Andrew Ainslie (1841 - 1903)
Dates1841 - 1903
NationalityBritish
Place of birthOxford Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England
Date of birth07 August 1841
Place of deathHis house, 63 Eaton Rise, Ealing, Middlesex
Date of death02/06/1903
Dates and placesBurial:
Golder's Green, London (cremated)
OccupationCelestial photography; astronomer; merchant
Research fieldAstronomy
ActivityCareer:
Entered his uncle's firm, Matthew Hall and Co, sanitary engineers; photographed stars. After his uncle's death in 1878 he took over the company and manged it until his retirement in 1890. involved with Ealing firm of Ottaway & Co. in developing improved optical gunsights for the British army and navy.
Memberships:
FRAS; president of the astronomy section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 1900-1903; awarded an honorary LLD from University of St Andrews in 1891;
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election04/06/1885
RelationshipsSon of Thomas Common, surgeon, of Newcastle; married Ann Matthews of Gayton, Norfolk 18 July 1867; one son, three daughters
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 313-318 signed by H H T
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/17979105
Royal Society codeNA6681
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1885/06Common, Andrew Ainslie: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/000929Common, Andrew Ainsliend
NLB/3/171Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society4 April 1889
NLB/4/1060Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Andrew Ainslie Common 9 January 1891
NLB/3/972Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Secretary of the Pasteur Fund, Mansion House, E.C.27 November 1889
NLB/7/426Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society17 February 1893
NLB/7/44Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society17 November 1892
NLB/6/1006Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Andrew Ainslie Common3 October 1891
NLB/6/814Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Andrew Ainslie Common19 July 1892
NLB/6/847Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society22 July 1892
NLB/6/1125Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society29 October 1892
NLB/7/37Copy letter from Hebrert Rix, to Andrew Ainslie Common 15 November 1892
NLB/7/93Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society26 November 1892
NLB/7/184Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society16 December 1892
NLB/7/304Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society17 January 1893
NLB/7/454Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster21 February 1893
NLB/7/317Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society20 January 1893
NLB/7/458Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society22 February 1893
NLB/8/206Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society28 July 1893
NLB/7/694Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society11 April 1893
NLB/7/1048Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society16 June 1893
NLB/15/356Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Dr Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society20 August 1897
NLB/10/312Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society; Michael Foster; [Andrew Ainslie] Common; [Philip Lutley] Sclater; [Percy Alexander] MacMahon; and [Wilfred Hudleston] Hudleston7 November 1894
NLB/9/321Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society28 April 1894
NLB/12/83Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Andrew Ainslie Common and Professor Herbert Hall Turner6 December 1895
NLB/9/482Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society, Secretary, Joint Solar Eclipse Committee26 May 1894
NLB/13/84Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society, Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee6 June 1896
NLB/9/967Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society31 July 1894
NLB/13/460Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society, Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, Royal Astronomical Society17 September 1896
NLB/12/87Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Andrew Ainslie Common, [Fellow of the Royal Society][6 December 1895]
NLB/13/833Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society4 December 1896
NLB/14/59Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Secretaries of the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, W.18 December 1896
NLB/14/270Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society, Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, Royal Astronomical Society8 February 1897
NLB/14/816Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society, Honorary Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, Royal Astronomical Society25 May 1897
NLB/14/712Copy letter from Robert Frederick William Harrison, to Dr Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society1 May 1897
NLB/15/726Copy telegram from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Alexander Ainslie Common, [Fellow of the Royal Society], 63 Eaton Rise, Ealing[24 November 1897]
NLB/15/309Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Dr Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society4 August 1897
NLB/15/65Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society, Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, Royal Astronomical Society17 June 1897
NLB/15/79Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Dr Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society, Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, W.18 June 1897
NLB/15/133Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society, Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, W. 2 July 1897
NLB/15/741Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Andrew Ainslie Common, [Fellow of the Royal Society]29 November 1897
NLB/16/768Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Common, Fellow of the Royal Society2 June 1898
NLB/16/611Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr A A Common, Fellow of the Royal Society6 May 1898
NLB/16/599Copy letter from Michael Foster and Arthur William Rucker, to the Secretaries of the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, The Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House6 May 1898
NLB/19/826Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Andrew Ainslie Common, [Fellow of the Royal Society]3 January 1900
NLB/20/60Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Turner, Professor Alfred George Greenhill, Dr Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellows of the Royal Society23 January 1900
NLB/20/471Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Andrew Ainslie Common, [Fellow of the Royal Society]30 April 1900
NLB/20/460Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society28 April 1900
NLB/20/450Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Mr Andrew Ainslie Common, [Fellow of the Royal Society]26 April 1900
NLB/26/308Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Dr Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society27 February 1903
RR/11/139Referee's report by Andrew Ainslie Common, on a paper 'Stellar photometry' by W J Dibdin23 April 1892
RR/11/137Referee's report by Andrew Ainslie Common, on a paper 'On the method of examination of photographic objectives at the Kew Observatory' by L Darwin5 July 1892
RR/12/189Referee's report by Andrew Ainslie Common, on a paper 'On the photographic spectrum of the great nebula in Orion' by Joseph Norman Lockyer4 July 1894
RR/12/187Referee's report by Andrew Ainslie Common, on a paper 'Preliminary report on the results obtained with the prismatic cameras during the total eclipse of the Sun, April 16, 1893' by Joseph Norman Lockyer24 March 1894
NLB/7/207Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster20 December 1892
NLB/8/39Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society4 July 1893
NLB/12/393Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society, Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, Royal Astronomical Society13 February 1896
NLB/15/243Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society22 July 1897
NLB/15/698Copy letter from Michael Foster, to the Under Secretary of State for India, India Office, Whitehall, S.W. 19 November 1897
NLB/21/305Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr [Andrew Ainslie] Common, [Fellow of the Royal Society]25 October 1900
RR/10/372Referee's report by Andrew Ainslie Common, on a paper 'On a photographic method for determining variability in stars' by Isaac Roberts1 July 1890
NLB/7/245Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Sir Thomas Villiers, Foreign Office27 December 1892
NLB/10/988Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society18 March 1895
NLB/16/735Copy letter from Michael Foster, to the Secretaries, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, W.26 May 1898
PP/18/12Paper, 'Note on the necessity of using well-annealed and homo­geneous glass for the mirrors of telescopes' by Andrew Ainslie Common1891
MC/15/66Letter from [Andrew Ainslie] Common, Ealing, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]19 March 1890
MC/15/65Letter from [Andrew Ainslie] Common, Ealing, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]19 March 1890
MC/15/321Letter from [Andrew Ainslie] Common, Secretary of the Joint 1893 Eclipse Committee, 63 Eaton Rise, Ealing, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society25 November 1892
MC/15/324Letter from Andrew Ainslie Common, 63 Eaton Rise, Ealing, to [Herbert] Rix28 November 1892
MC/16/4Letter from Andrew Ainslie Common, 63 Eaton Rise, Ealing, to Professor [Michael] Foster30 January 1893
MC/15/317Letter from Andrew Ainslie Common, Secretary of the [Eclipse] Committee, 63 Eaton Rise, Ealing, to [Herbert] Rix16 November 1892
MC/15/291Letter from [Andrew Ainslie] Common, Secretary of the Joint Eclipse Committee, 63 Eaton Rise, Ealing, to the Secretary of the Royal Society30 June 1892
MC/14/12Letter from [James Francis] Tennant, 37 Hamilton Road, Ealing, to the Secretary of the Royal Society29 January 1885
MC/14Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1885-1888
MC/15Volume 15 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1889-1892
MC/16Volume 16 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1893-1896
MC/17Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1897-1899
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