Name Date Association Location County
Rambaut, Arthur Alcock | 1859-1923 | Oxford | Oxfordshire | |
Rambaut, William Hautenville | 1822-1893 | Birr | Offaly | |
Ramsden, Jesse | 1735-1800 | Halifax | Yorkshire: West Riding | |
Reade, Joseph Bancroft | 1801-1870 | Reade’s Observatory [ReO] | Stone | Buckinghamshire |
Recorde, Robert | 1508/12-1558 | Tenby | Pembrokeshire | |
Redman, Roderick Oliver | 1905-1975 | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire | |
Rees, John | 1862-? | Penarth | Glamorgan | |
Rees, Martin | 1942- | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire | |
Rendell, Robert Fermor | 1873–1954 | Essex | ||
Reynolds, John Henry | 1874-1949 | Harborne | Warwickshire | |
Richards, Walter John Bruce | 1835-1904 | London | County of London | |
Richardson, Lawrence | 1869-1953 | Newcastle-upon-Tyne | Northumberland | |
Richardson, William | 1804-1878 | Richardson’s Observatory [RiO] | Halifax | Yorkshire: West Riding |
Riddle, Edward | 1788–1854 | Newcastle upon Tyne | Northumberland | |
Rigaud, Stephen Peter | 1774-1839 | King’s Observatory [KiOR] | Oxford | Oxfordshire |
Robartes [Roberts], Francis | 1649-1718 | Lanhydrock | Cornwall | |
Robbins, Frank | 1860-1933 | London | County of London | |
Roberts, Eleazar | 1825-1912 | Pwllheli | Caernarvonshire | |
Roberts, Isaac | 1829-1924 | Roberts’s Maghull Observatory [RMO]; Robert’s Crowborough Observatory [RO] | Magull | Lancashire |
Roberts, Robert | 1777-1836 | Roberts’s Observatory [RO] | Holyhead | Anglesey |
Roberts, Samuel | 1827-1913 | Horncastle | Lincolnshire | |
Robertson Armagh, Abram | 1751-1826 | Ravensthorpe | Northamptonshire | |
Robinson, John Herbert Hedley | 1905-1991 | Hedley Robinson’s Observatory [HRO] | Torbay | Devon |
Robinson, Thomas Romney | 1793-1882 | Armagh Observatory [AO] | Armagh | Armagh |
Rogers, Norman | 1922-2012 | Essex | ||
Rogerson, William | 1796-1853 | Greenwich | County of London | |
Rolston, William Edward | 1876-1921 | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire | |
Rowe | NK | Essex | ||
Roxburgh, William | 1812-1897 | Ipswich | Suffolk | |
Ruddy, Henry E | NK | Northamptonshire | ||
Rupert-Jones, John Archibald | 1874-1934 | Milford Haven | Pembrokeshire | |
Russell, Annie Scott Dill | 1868-1947 | See Maunder | ||
Ryle, Sir Martin | 1918-1984 | Royal Greenwich Observatory [RGOH] | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire |
Ryle, Reginald, John | 1854-1922 | Ryle, Sir Martin | Brighton | Sussex |
Ryland, Thomas Glazebrook | 1818-1900 | Liverpool Astronomical Society Observatory | Thelwell | Cheshire |
Ryves, Percy Mayow | 1881-1956 | Epsom | Surrey | |
Sabine, Edward | 1788-1883 | East Sheen | Surrey | |
Salomons, Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern- | 1851-1925 | Salomons, Sir David | Southborough | Kent |
Sandeman, Patrick | 1822-1861 | Leith | Midlothian | |
Saunder, Samuel A. | 1852-1912 | Saunder’s Observatory [SaOC] | Crowthorne | Berkshire |
Saxton, C. A. | fl.1913-1931 | Frome | Somerset | |
Scott, James | 1844-1928 | Selkirk | Selkirkshire | |
Scott, James Lidderdale | 1848-1908 | Edinburgh | Midlothian | |
Scott, William | c.1832-1906 | Merthyr Tydfil | Glamorgan | |
Seabroke, George Mitchell | 1838-1918 | Rugby | Warwickshire | |
Sellers, Francis John | 1875-1959 | Sellers’s Observatory [SOMHL] | London | County of London |
Selwyn, Canon William | 1806-1875 | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire | |
Senex, John | 1678-1740 | Cityof london | County of London | |
Sewell, Philip Edward | 1822-1906 | London | Derbyshire | |
Shackleton, William | 1871-1921 | South Kensington | County of London | |
Sharp(e), Abraham | 1651-1742 | Little Horton | Yorkshire: West Riding | |
Sharp, John | fl.1739-1757 | West Wycombe | Buckinghamshire | |
Sheepshanks, Richard | 1794-1855 | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire | |
Shepherd, Anthony | 1721-1796 | Christ’s College Observatory [CCOC] | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire |
Shirley, Washington | 1722–1778 | Staunton Harold | Derbyshire | |
Short, James | 1710-1768 | Edinburgh | Midlothian | |
Shuckburgh-Evelyn, Sir George Augustus William | 1751-1804 | Shuckburgh Observatory [ShO] | Shuckburgh Hall | Warwickshire |
Sidgreaves, Walter | 1837-1919 | Grimsargh | Lancashire | |
Simmonds, George Hervey | 1836-1921 | Carrington’s Redhill Observatory [COR] | Redhill | Surrey |
Simmons, Hugh | 1891-1962 | Edlesborough | Bedfordshire | |
Simms, William | 1793-1860 | Simms’s Carshalton Observatory [SOC] | Carshalton | Surrey |
Skinner, Frederick | 1860-1927 | Famouth | Cornwall | |
Slater, Noel Bryan | 1912-1973 | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire | |
Slatter, John | 1817-1899 | Slatter’s Observatory [SOI] | Iffley | Oxfordshire |
Smart, William Marshall | 1889-1975 | Doune | Perthshire | |
Smeaton, John | 1724-1792 | Leeds | Yorkshire: West Riding | |
Smith, Charles Frederick Ortmann | -1949 | Edinburgh | Midlothian | |
Smith, Charles Michie | 1854-1922 | Aberdeen | Aberdeenshire | |
Smith, John | 1579-1631 | Willoughby | Lincolnshire | |
Smith, John | 1711-1795 | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire | |
Smith, Robert | 1689-1768) | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire | |
Smyth, Charles Piazzi | 1819-1900 | Naples | Midlothian | |
Smyth, William Henry | 1788-1865 | Smyth’s Observatory [SOB]; Hartwell House Observatory [HaHO] | Bedford | Bedfordshire |
Snow, Robert | 1805-1854 | Snow’s Observatory [SOA] | Cambridge; Ashurst | Cambridgeshire; Kent |
Somer, John | -1409 | Bodmin | Cornwall | |
Somerville, Mary [née Fairfax] | 1780-1872 | Jedburgh | Roxburghshire | |
South, James | 1785–1867 | South’s Observatory [SOSL]; South’s Observatory [SOCHL] | Southwark | County of London |
Spencer Compton, Joshua Alwyne | 1790-1851 | Castle Ashby | Northamptonshire | |
Spencer, George, fourth duke of Marlborough | 1739–1817 | Marlborough House Observatory [MHOL]; Blenheim Palace Observatory [BPO] | London; Woodstock | County of London; Oxfordshire |
Stanley, Leonard John | 1888- | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire | |
Steavenson, William Herbert | 1894-1975 | Steavenson’s Observatory [SONL] | Norwood | County of London |
Stevens, Catharine Octavia | 1865-1959 | Oxford | Oxfordshire | |
Stevens, Charles | 1852-1918 | Ipswich | Suffolk | |
Stevens, Kenneth | NK | Derby | Derbyshire | |
Stewart, Balfour | 1828-1887 | Kew | Surrey | |
Stone, Edward | 1702-1768 | Princes Risborough | Buckinghamshire | |
Stone, Edward James | 1831-1897 | Greenwich | County of London | |
Stoney, George Johnstone | 1826-1911 | Birr | Offaly | |
Strach, Eric Hugo | 1914-2011 | Liverpool | Lancashire | |
Strachen, William | c.1875-1935 | Bournemouth | Hampshire | |
Stratford, William Samuel | 1789-1853 | London | County of London | |
Stratton, Frederick John Marrian | 1881-1960 | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire | |
Staples, Irene Elizabeth Toye | 1882-1954 | See Warner, Irene Eliz.Toye | Bristol | Somerset |
Strutt, William | 1758-1830 | Derby | Derbyshire | |
Stuart, Charles | 1795-1872 | Ipswich | Suffolk | |
Swan, John | 1605-1671 | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire | |
Swirles, Bertha | 1903-1999 | Northampton | Northamptonshire |