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The King's Observatory (called for many years the Kew Observatory) [1] is a Grade I listed building [2] in Richmond, London. Now a private dwelling, it formerly housed an astronomical and terrestrial magnetic observatory [ 3 ] founded by King George III .
Elizabeth Martha Beckley (14 January 1846 – 6 August 1927) was a pioneering British astronomical photographer. [1] [2] [3]She was born on 14 January 1846 in Wandsworth, London, [4] [5] the daughter of Robert Beckley, a mechanical engineer based at Kew Observatory, who developed the Beckley rain gauge and the Robinson-Beckley anemometer with Thomas Romney Robinson.
Their fourth son was Francis Whipple who was superintendent at Kew Observatory from 1925 to 1939. [9] Whipple died at Oak Villa, 9, Jocelyn Road, Richmond, on 8 February 1893 and was buried in Richmond Old Burial Ground. [1] [5]
Kew Palace Flats (Former royal kitchens) Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Kitchen: 1731-35: 25 May 1983 1263074 ... Richmond: Observatory: 1768-69: 10 January 1950
In 1859 he was appointed director of Kew Observatory, and there naturally became interested in problems of meteorology and terrestrial magnetism. In 1870, the year in which he was very seriously injured in a railway accident, he was elected professor of physics at Owens College, Manchester , and retained that chair until his death, which ...
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Robert Whipple's father, George Mathews Whipple, was superintendent of the Royal Observatory at Kew, where his mother Elizabeth Beckley also worked. After attending King's College School, Whipple began his career at the Kew Observatory as an assistant, before leaving to become assistant manager at instrument making firm L. P. Casella.