Richard Anthony Proctor (1837–88)

Astronomer and science writer. BA, theology, King’s College, London, 1856. BA, Cambridge, 1860. Admitted to Lincoln’s Inn, 1858. Turned to astronomy and popular science writing after losing his money by failure of a New Zealand bank, 1866. Founded Knowledge, a weekly scientific periodical, in 1881. Taught mathematics at private military school in Woolwich, and toured in America and Australia, lecturing on science. Lived in Missouri and then Florida from 1881.