William Henry Mahoney Christie
1845–1922
Astronomer. BA, Cambridge (Trinity College), 1868; fellow, 1869. Chief assistant at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, 1870; astronomer royal, 1881. President of Royal Astronomical Society, 1888–90. Retired in 1910. Transformed Greenwich Observatory into a modern scientific establishment, and observed solar eclipses. Knighted, 1904.
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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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