Edwin Dunkin
1821–98
Astronomer. Mathematical calculator at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, 1838–40; at the magnetic and meteorological department, 1840–5; permanent Observatory staff, 1845–81; deputy astronomer royal, 1881–4. President of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1884. Employed by George Airy on a number of astronomical investigations and expeditions. His popular works included The midnight sky (1869). FRS 1876.
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ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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