Organizations and Honors
- Royal Society (fellow)
- 1876 and
- Received first Progress Medal of the Photographic Society of Great Britain ever
- 1878
- Photographic Society of Great Britain aka Royal Photographic Society (president)
- 1892 to 1894
- 1896
- 1903 to 1905
- Royal Astronomical Society (president)
- 1893 to 1895.
- Physical Society of London (president)
- 1895 to 1897
- Knighted
- 1900
- Girls' Public Day School Trust (vice-President)
- 1909 to 1920
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