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Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, a known member of the Fellow of the Royal Society was born on May 17, He was an English scientist and astronomer.

Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, a known member of the Fellow of the Royal Society was born on May 17, He was an English scientist and astronomer.

Some 5, miles away, on October 20, , the English astronomer Joseph Norman Lockyer also succeeded in observing the solar prominences in broad daylight.

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Abraham Sharp served as an observational and mathematical assistant to England's first Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed (–) at the Greenwich.

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Lockyer came from a middle-class family, derived, it was believed, from early Celtic immigrants from France into England.

His father, Joseph Hooley Lockyer, was a surgeon-apothecary with broad scientific interests, and his mother, Anne Norman, was a daughter of Edward Norman, the squire of Cosford, Warwickshire. His formal education, at schools in the English Midlands, tended to concentrate on the classics, but the scientific atmosphere at home, supplemented by travel in Switzerland and France, served to broaden his interests and to produce the type of mind that was later to show a marked versatility.

His earliest employment was as a civil servant in the English War Office, which he entered in He remained there until his striking success as an amateur astronomer led, via a period of temporary service as secretary of the duke of Devonshire’s commission on scientific ins