John Brinkley

Bishop of Cloyne; Royal Astronomer of Ireland; Irish Anglican bishop and astronomer · Scientists · Lived 1763 to 1835 · aged 72

John Mortimer Brinkley was the first Royal Astronomer of Ireland and later Bishop of Cloyne. He was the President of the Royal Irish Academy (1822-35), the President of the Royal Astronomical Society (1831-33), and in 1792, he became the second Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College Dublin.

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