Background
N E W A L b, Hugh Frank was born on June 21, 1857 in Gateshead-on-Tyne. Youngest son of late Robert Stirling Newall, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Mary, daughter of Hugh Lee Pattinson, Fellow of the Royal Society.
N E W A L b, Hugh Frank was born on June 21, 1857 in Gateshead-on-Tyne. Youngest son of late Robert Stirling Newall, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Mary, daughter of Hugh Lee Pattinson, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Rugby; Trinity College, Cambridge. Master of Arts; Doctor of Science (Durham).
Formerly Assistant to the Cavendish Professor of Physics, Cambridge, and Demonstrator in Experimental Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, 1886-1890. Now Assistant Director of the Observatory, Professor of Astrophysics, and Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. President 148o of Royal Astronomical Society, 1907-1909.
Treasurer of Cambridge Philosophical Society. Hon Astronomer engaged in astropliysical research at the Observatory, Cambridge, in connection with the large equatorial presented to the University by his father.
Fellow of the Royal Society.
Spouse 1881, Margaret,daughter of late Rev. C. T. Arnold.