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People: Albert Walter


Name Walter, Albert
 
Place of work Greenwich
 
Employment dates
 8 February 1892 – 8 April 1897
 
Posts 1892
Supernumerary Computer




Subsequent posts
 12 May1897
First Assistant Director (Chief Assistant), Royal Albert Observatory, Mauritius 

1911
Director, Royal Albert Observatory, Mauritius
1925 Director, British East Africa Meteorological Services
 


Born 6 July 1877
 
Died 1972

Albert Walter was one of ten siblings. At the age of nine, he was sent to the Roan School in Greenwich, leaving in the summer of 1891. Having been informed by William Nash, (a family friend and the assistant in the Magnetic and Meteorological Department), that there were a number of vacancies for Supernumerary Computers at the Observatory, Walter sat the exams and was offered a post. He was set to work in the Magnetic and Meteorological Department under William Ellis. On 28 October 1892 he was awarded a certificate of competency to undertake ordinary magnetical and meteorological observations. He was awarded a second certificate to undertake photographic work on 16 February the following year. These resulted in an increase in his salary.

Walter was the first secretary of the Royal Observatory Hockey Club which was formed in 1893

Walter resigned in 1897 to take up the post of First Assistant Director of the Royal Albert Observatory in Mauritius. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomcial Society in 1902.

 

Further Reading

Albert Walter OBE (1877-1972) Meteorologist in the Colonial Service, Part I. Joan M Kenworthy. Royal Meteorological Society, Occasional Papers on Meteorological History No.12 (May 2013) (Downloads as pdf)

Albert Walter OBE (1877-1972) Meteorologist in the Colonial Service, Part II. Joan M Kenworthy. Royal Meteorological Society, Occasional Papers on Meteorological History No.13 (August 2014) (Downloads as pdf)