Overview – a guide to grading and staffing structures
The names of individuals who worked in the various grades can be found via the links below:
The Head of the Observatory – the Astronomer Royal / Director
The First / Chief Assistants and the Deputy Directors
The Assistant grades
The Superintendent posts
The post of Computer
The Industrial Grades – labourers, night watchmen, mechanics, gardeners, cleaners and others
The staff of the Magnetical and Meteorological Observatory
Individuals about whom more detailed information has been compiled, together with dates of employment:
Airy, George Biddel (1835–1881)
Barocas, Vinicio (1941/2–1949)
Belville, John Henry (1811–1856)
Bennett, Bertram (1880–1885)
Bossley, William (1695)
Bowdwen, Arthur (1855–1857)
Bradley, John (1742–1756)
Breen, Hugh (Jnr) (1838–1859)
Brinkley, John (1787 & 1788)
Brown, Malcolm Jason (1856–c.1860)
Bryant, Walter William (1892–1923
Burnstead, John (1787)
Burrow, Ruben (1771–1773)
Carpenter, Henry James (1865–1874)
Carpenter, James (1854–1872)
Chapman, Benedict (1792–1793)
Christie, William (1870–1910)
Clowes, Samuel (1691–1695)
Cowell, Philip Herbert (1896–1910)
Criswick, Henry Charles (1854–1862)
Criswick, George Stickland (1852–1854 & 1855–1896)
Crommelin, Andrew Claude de la Cherois(1891–1927)
Crosley, John (1789–1792 & 1798)
Crosthwait, Joseph (1708–1719)
Davidson, Charles Rundle (1890–1895 & 1896–1937)
Denton, Cuthbert (1676–1680)
Dolman, Mondeford Reginald (1856–1863)
Downing, Arthur Mathew Weld (1873–1891)
Downs, Thomas (1839–1863)
Dunkin, Edwin (1838–1884)
Dymond, Joseph (1765–1766)
Eddington, Arthur Stanley (1906 – 1913)
Ellis, Thomas (1825–1852)
Ellis, William (1841–1852 & 1853–1893)
Evans, Benjamin Davies (c.1902–1912)
Evans, Joseph Edward (1897–1913)
Evans, Thomas (1796–1798)
Firminger [Ferminger], Thomas (1799–1807/8)
Garnett, Joseph (1793–1794)
Garrard, William (1788–1789 & 1798)
Gilpin, George (1776–1781)
Glaisher, James (1836–1874)
Green, Charles (1760–1765)
Hanson, Edward (1841–1848 & 1854–1861(+))
Hanson, Edward Beresford (1843–1843 & 1856–1860)
Harris, Richard (1841–1843)
Hartnup, John (1836–1838)
Hellins, John (1773–1776)
Henderson, John Charles (1848–1854)
Hind, John Russell ((1840–1844)
Hitchins, Malachy (1769)
Hitchins, William Malachy (1787)
Hodgson, James (1695–1702)
Hollis, Henry Park (1881–1920)
Hudson, Thomas Carlton (1892–1893)
Humphreys, George (1847–1848)
Jonckheere, Robert (1914–1919)
Kilby, Horatio Herbert Milborrow (1911–1916)
Kinnebrook, David (1794–1796)
Lacey, Charles Craven (1891–1900)
Leigh, Luke (1695–c.1704)
Lindley, Joseph (1781–1786)
Lewis, Thomas (1881–1917)
Lovelace, Charles Dilkes(1844–1848)
Lucas, John (1855–1860)
Lucas, John Richard (1856–c.1860)
Lynn, William Thynne (1854–1855 & 1856–1880)
Mason, Charles (1756–1760)
Maunder, E Walter (1873–1913 & 1916–1919)
Maunder, Annie Scott Dill (née Russell) (1891–1895) & 1916–1920)
Moore, Joshua (1787–1788)
Nash, William Carpenter (1856–1903)
Paul, James (1840–1844)
Pond, John (1811–1835)
Rogerson, William (1825–1853)
Rudd, John Leslie (1930–1955)
Russell, Annie Scott Dill (1891–1895) & 1916–1920)
Ryley, Abraham (1708–1719)
Sharp, Abraham (1684–1685 & 1688–1690)
Simms, Frederick Walter (1830–1835)
Smith, Thomas (1676–1684)
Stafford, John (1685–1688)
Talmage, Charles George (1856–1860)
Taylor, Thomas (1807–1835)
Taylor, Thomas Glanville (1822–1830)
Thackeray, William Grasett (1875–1919)
Todd, Charles (1841–1847 & 1854–1855)
Todd, Henry David (1855–1856)
Walter, Albert (1892–1897)
Weston, Thomas (1699–1706)
Wickham, Walter (c.1874–1880)
Witty, John (1705–1706)
Woolferman, Isaac (1706–1709)
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