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DR. E. M. LINDSAY, at present an assistant in the Harvard Observatory in Bloemfontein, South Africa, has been appointed astronomer at Armagh Observatory. This Observatory was founded in the year 1791 by Richard Robinson, Baron Rokeby, Archbishop of Armagh and a great benefactor of the city of Armagh. The Primate gave as an endowment of the Observatory twenty acres of land close to Armagh, on which the Observatory is built, and the estate of Derrynaught, which he had bought out of his private means. He further provided for the salary of an assistant and the current expenses of the Observatory. The power of nominating and appointing the astronomer is reserved for the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland for the time being. The first astronomer of the Observatory was the Rev. Dr. J. A. Hamilton, who was succeeded in 1815 by the Rev. W. Davenport, and then, in 1823, by the Rev. T. R. Robinson, who held the post until his death in 1882a period of more than fifty-eight years. The anemometer which bears Dr. Robinson's name wras first put up on the roof of the Observatory in 1846, but meteorological observations had been commenced thirteen years earlier. Dr. J. L. E. Dreyer succeeded Dr. Robinson in 1882, and the next director appointed was Mr. J. A. Hardcastle, who, however, died in 1917 without having actually taken up the post. The Rev. W. F. A. Ellison became director in 1918 and occupied that position until his death at the end of last year.
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Armagh Observatory. Nature 139, 791–792 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139791c0
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