MDMD2: The Astronomer Royal

[Dave Monroe]

"To Mr. Mason, Assistant to the Astronomer Royal,
At Greenwich" (M&D, Ch. 2, p. 12)

The Astronomer Royal here being the Reverend Nevil
Maskelyne (1765-1811) ... 

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/searchbin/searchs.pl?exhibit=it3370z&axis=959778107&flash=false

The fifth person (okay, man ...) to hold the title ...

http://www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/leaflets/astron_royal/astron_royal.html

Holding that title by virtue of being Director of the
Royal Greenwich Observatory ("At Greenwich") ...

http://www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/

And, of course, a Fellow of the Royal Society ...

http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/

http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/royalsoc/rshist.htm

And, again, see ...

Howse, Derek.  Nevil Maskelyne: The Seaman's
   Astronomer. New York: Cambridge UP, 1989.

Though I should be doing a little of that on all yr
behalves soon enough, so ...

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