The Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College is appointed by the City of London Corporation. Gresham College is an unusual institution of higher learning in London which enrolls no students and grants no degrees. ... Arms of the City of London as shown on Blackfriars station. ...

(Years given as, say,1596 / 7 refer to Old Style and New Style dates.) In Britain and countries of the British Empire, Old Style or O.S. after a date means that the date is in the Julian calendar, in use in those countries until 1752; New Style or N.S. means that the date is in the Gregorian calendar, adopted on 14 September...

His Eminence Thomas Stafford Cardinal Williams ONZ (born 20 March 1930 in Wellington) is a Cardinal and the Emeritus (retired) Archbishop of Wellington, New Zealand. ... November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 50 days remaining. ... Events January - Galileo observes Neptune, but mistakes it for a star and so is not credited with its discovery. ... Edmund Gunter (1581 - December 10, 1626), English mathematician, of Welsh extraction, was born in Hertfordshire in 1581. ... Christopher Wren by Godfrey Kneller, 1711. ... John Machin, (1680—June 9, 1751), a professor of astronomy in London, is best known for developing a quickly converging series for Ï€ in 1706 and using it to compute Ï€ to 100 decimal places. ... Samuel Arthur Saunder (1852-1912) was a British mathematician and selenographer. ... Sir Martin Ryle (September 27, 1918 – October 14, 1984) was a British radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems (see e. ... Roger John Tayler (October 25, 1929 – January 23, 1997) was a British astronomer. ... The Right Honourable Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, FRS (born 23 June 1942) is a professor of astronomy. ... Astronomer. ... The Right Honourable George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, OM, FRS (6 December 1920–31 August 2002) was an English chemist. ... Heather Couper (born June 2, 1949) is a British astronomer who popularised astronomy in the 1990s and 2000s on British Television, often alongside Patrick Moore on the programme The Sky at Night. ... Colin Pillinger (born May 9, 1943) is a planetary scientist at the Open University in the UK. He graduated with a BSc and a Ph. ... Frank Close OBE is currently Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. ... Professor John David Barrow FRS (b. ...

See also

• Gresham Professor of Commerce
• Gresham Professor of Divinity
• Gresham Professor of Geometry (mathematics)
• Gresham Professor of Law
• Gresham Professor of Music
• Gresham Professor of Physic (medicine)
• Gresham Professor of Rhetoric

References

• Gresham College old website, Internet Archive List of professors
• Some Historical Astronomical Posts In Britain and Ireland

Further reading

• Ward, J [1740] (1967). The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College, New York & London: Johnson Reprint Corporation.