James Glaisher ( 1809 - 1903 )

Birth: Rotherhithe, London, England (07 April 1809) Death: 'The Shola', Croydon, Surrey (07 February 1903) Profession: Meteorologist Research Field: Meteorology Career: Assistant, Cambridge University Observatory (1833); Chief of Magnetic and Meteorological Department, Greenwich (1838-1874); prepared meteorological reports for the Registrar General (1847-1902); made balloon ascents with Henry Coxwell; Superintendent of the Magnetical and Meteorological Department of the Royal Observatory, under the Astronomer Royal.