Making Niches, Founding the Observatories

Table 1.1 Founding the British university observatories which researched before 1939

Founded Principal Initiator

Radcliffe 1772 Thomas Hornsby, Savilian Professor

Dunsink 1783 Francis Andrews, Provost of Trinity College

Cambridge 1820 George Peacock (and colleagues)

Glasgow Macfarlane 1751-57 Robert Dick, Prof. of Nat. Phil., and the Faculty of Arts

Glasgow Horselethill 1838 John P. Nichol, Prof. of Practical Astronomy (and a civic initiative)

Durham 1840 Temple Chevallier, Prof. of Maths

University of Oxford 1873 Charles Pritchard, Savilian Professor (with the Prof. of Geology) and W. De La Rue

London Mill Hill 1924 Louis N.G. Filon, Prof. of Applied Maths

Sources: From Chapters 1, 2 and 4.