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Dictionary of National Biography, 1927 supplement/Lockyer, Joseph Norman
LOCKYER, SirJOSEPH NORMAN (1836–1920), astronomer, was born at Rugby 17 May 1836, the only son of Joseph Hooley Lockyer, physician, of Rugby, by his wife, Anne, daughter of Edward Norman, of Cosford, Warwickshire.
He was educated at private schools and on the Continent, and at the age of twenty-one obtained a clerkship in the War Office. His marked ability gained for him in 1865 the office of editor of the Army Regulations. But he had already acquired, probably from his father, who founded a scientific and literary society in Rugby, a taste for science, especially astronomy.
Joseph norman lockyer biography of barack
He bought a refracting telescope of 6¼ inches aperture, made by Thomas Cooke [q.v.], and began to study planetary surfaces. His first scientific paper, communicated to the Royal Astronomical Society in 1863, gives a very accurate study of Mars as observed at the opposition of 1862.
In 1866 Lockyer attached a spectroscope t