Honours
- Savilian Professor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford
- Foundation Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge
- 1st Class Math, with Exhibition, and 1st Class Physics, with Amott Exhibition and Medal, University of London, 1880
- Mathematical Scholarship and 1st Class Experimental Physics, University of London, 1882
- Second Wrangler and Sheepshanks Astronomical Exhibitioner, Cambridge, 1882
- 1st Class Math. Tripos, 3rd part, and 2nd Smith's Prize
- Fellow of Trinity. F.R.A.S.
- Chief Assistant at Greenwich Observatory.
- Fellow of the Royal Society, June 1897
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