Royal Astronomer of Ireland
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The Royal Astronomer of Ireland was a title attached to the Andrews Professorship of astronomy in Trinity College Dublin and the directorship of its astronomical observatory at Dunsink, near Dublin. The eight title-holders included Charles Jasper Joly, Professor Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1874-1892), Professor Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1827-1865), and Professor John Brinkley. The title of Royal Astronomer of Ireland was introduced by Letters Patent of George III in 1792 so John Brinkley was the first Royal Astronomer.
- 1912-1921 Henry C. Plummer
- 1906-1912 Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
- 1897-1906 Charles Jasper Joly
- 1892-1897 Arthur Alcock Rambaut
- 1874-1892 Sir Robert Stawell Ball
- 1865-1874 Friedrich Ernst Brünnow
- 1827-1865 Sir William Rowan Hamilton
- 1792-1827 John Brinkley
- 1783-1792 The Rev. Henry Ussher
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- Trinity College Dublin's Astrophysics Research Group website.
