Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin explained
Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin (6 February 1865 - 20 September 1939) was an astronomer of French and Huguenot descent who was born in Cushendun, County Antrim, Ireland.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] He was educated in England at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge. After a spell teaching at Lancing College he found permanent employment at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in 1891.
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- Obituary: Dr. A. C. D. Crommelin . . 63 . 788 . 11–13 . 1940 . 1940Obs....63...11. . 7 November 2015.
- Phillips . T. E. R. . T. E. R. Phillips . Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin . . 50 . 2 . 75–78 . 1940 . 1939JBAA...50...75. . 7 November 2015.
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. Crommelin, Andrew Claude de la Cherois . 2014 . Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers . 483–484 . Hockey . Thomas . Trimble . Virginia . Williams . Thomas R. . . New York . 978-1-4419-9917-7 . 10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_9042. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers .
- Encyclopedia: Meadows . A. Jack . Crommelin, Andrew Claude de la Cherois . 2004 . . . Oxford, England . 10.1093/ref:odnb/57187 . Crommelin, Andrew Claude de la Cherois (1865–1939), astronomer | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography .
