In this chapter the story of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich is brought to its conclusion. It covers the Astronomers Royal who followed Airy at Greenwich: Sir William Henry Mahoney Christie, Sir Frank Dyson, Sir Harold Spencer Jones, and Richard van der Riet Woolley, who oversaw the completion of the move of the Observatory to Herstmonceux Castle in Sussex. It also looks at other mathematical astronomers who worked at Greenwich in the twentieth century.
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The Royal Naval College moved from Portsmouth to Greenwich in 1873. This chapter looks at the early controversy over the mathematics curriculum at the Royal Naval College, and at those who were employed as professors and instructors during the lifetime of the College at Greenwich. Some, like Louis Milne-Thomson, were distinguished mathematicians; some, like Charles Godfrey and Richard Wormell, were known for their contributions to mathematics education; while others made their names in other fields, like John Knox Laughton who was to become a significant naval historian.
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