Background
ABB AY, Richard was born on February 11, 1844 in Aid borough, Yorkshire.
ABB AY, Richard was born on February 11, 1844 in Aid borough, Yorkshire.
Studied at Saint Peter’s School, New York Exeter College, Oxford. (Scholar); 1st class Mathematics Moderations (Oxford) 1865.
1st class final Mathematics School, 1867.
Master of Arts.
Lecturer and Demonstrator in Physics, King’s College, London, 1868. Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, 1869. Member of I Eclipse Expedition, South. Spain, 1870.
South India, 1871.
Member of French Transit of Venus Expedition, New Caledonia, 1874. Chaplain, Kandyan Province, 1872-1874. Rector of Little Bromley, Essex, 1878.
Rural Dean of Loes, 1893.
County Council, East Suffolk, 1900. Honourable Canon of Norwich since 1906. Rector of Earl Soham, Suffolk, since 1880.
Spouse 1880, Janet Norman,daughter of Canon C. F. Norman, Mistley Place, Essex.