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Richard Proctor as caricatured by Spy in Vanity Fair, 3 March 1883. Richard Proctor's father died in 1850 and his mother attended to his education. He was sent to King's College London and subsequently earned a scholarship at St John's College, Cambridge. He graduated in 1860 as 23rd wrangler.
In 1848, he was sent to school at a large academy in Milton-on-Thames, where he remained until 1851, when he attained the proud position of head boy of the establishment.
Richard Anthony Proctor (23 March 1837 – 12 September 1888) was an English astronomer. He is best remembered for having produced one of the earliest maps of Mars in 1867 from 27 drawings by the English observer William Rutter Dawes. Read more on Wikipedia.
Proctor taught mathematics for some time at a private military school in Woolwich. After 1873 he went on several lecture tours of America and Australasia. Proctor long served as an officer of the Royal Astronomical Society, contributing many articles to its Monthly Notices.
Sep 12, 2024 · Richard Anthony Proctor, an English popular writer and astronomer, died Sep. 12, 1888, at the age of 51. Initially of independent means, he wrote his first book, Saturn and its Systems and published it himself in 1865.
He taught mathematics for a time in a private military school at Woolwich, and in 1873 went on a lecturing tour to America, resigning, in order to do so, an honorary secretaryship to the Royal Astronomical Society.
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Richard Proctor was an English astronomer, educated at Cambridge, who first suggested (1873) that meteor impacts caused lunar craters, rather than volcanic action.
