James Francis Tennant
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CIE, FRS
(10 January 1829 – 6 March 1915) was a British soldier and astronomer.
Tennant was born in
Calcutta
in 1847.
His mathematical skills landed him with the
Indian Mutiny. In 1859, when he rejoined the survey, he was given the directorship of the Madras Observatory where his interest in astronomy started.[3]
He was noted for being an observer for the
solar corona
.
In 1876 he was appointed Master of the Calcutta Mint, a position he held until his retirement in 1882, when he returned to England. He was elected to the council of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1885, and between 1890 and 1891 he served as president. At this time he had an interest in comets and contributed to several orbital calculations.
References
- ^ Dod, Robert (1862), The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland for 1862, London, Whittaker, p. 550.
- OL 23336661M.
- ^ Pang, Alex (2002), Empire and the Sun: Victorian Solar Eclipse Expeditions, Stanford, Stanford University Press, p. 16.
- ^ Total eclipses and the total eclipse of 18th August, 1868 at Google Books.
- ^ Tennant, J.F. (1877), Report on the Preparations for, and Observations of the Transit of Venus, as seen at Roorkee and Lahore, on December 8, 1874, Calcutta, Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing (online).
Further reading
- Pasachoff, Jay; Pasachoff, Naomi (2020). "Tennant, James Francis (1829–1915)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.013.107464. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
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