POGSON

Norman Robert (son of George Owen Pogson of Nottingham, hosiery manufacturer). b. Nottingham 23 March 1829; calculated the orbits of two comets 1847; an a istant at the South Villa observatory, London 1851–2; a istant at Radcliffe observatory, Oxford 1852, where he discovered four minor planets, A mph i trite 2 March 1854, Isis 23 May 1856, Ariadne 15 April 1857, and Hestra 16 Aug. 1857; awarded Lalande medal of French academy for the discovery of Isis; a isted sir George Airy in his experiments for determining the mean density of the earth at the Horton colliery, Shields 1854; director of John Lee’s observatory at Hart well 1859–60; government astronomer at Madras Oct. 1860 to death; discovered Asia and 4 other minor planets 1861–8, and 8 variable stars 1862–77; prepared a catalogue of stars for which 51,101 observations were made 1862–87; observed the total eclipse of the sun on 18 Aug. 1868 at Masu lip at am and was the first to observe the bright line spectrum of the cornea; F.R.A.S. 11 May 1860; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878; author of Report of the government astronomers on the total eclipse of the sun, Madras 1868; Result of observations of the fixed stars made at Madras observatory, 2 vols. 1887–8. d. Madras 23 June 1891. Monthly notices Royal Astronomical soc. lii 235–8 (1892); Nature 2 July 1891 pp. 205–6.