Ball

Ball, SIR ROBERT STAWELL, LL.D., F.R.S., since 1892 Lowndean professor of Astronomy at Cambridge, was born in Dublin, 1st July 1840, and studied at Trinity College. He was appointed Lord Rosse's astronomer at Parsonstown in 1865; professor of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics at the Royal Irish College of Science in 1873; and in 1874 professor of Astronomy at Dublin, and astronomer royal for Ireland. He has published works on mechanics and astronomy, of which the best known is The Story of the Heavens, besides many magazine articles, and is well known as a lecturer. He was knighted January 25, 1886.