Thomas Henderson
The name Thomas Henderson is the first name on the monument.
The monument is in Greyfriars private cemetery, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland.
There are 466 other graves within this cemetery that are listed within the GPR database.
Thomas Henderson was buried in 1841. The actual date of death is not currently recorded on the GPR database but it may be on the grave monument photograph.
Thomas Henderson is listed on the GPR grave numbered 138493.
Thomas Henderson is listed as the first name on monument on the grave monument.
Thomas Henderson has the record number 293684 within the GPR person name database table.
The record was added to the GPR on 23 June 2011
There is one image available for the monument listing Thomas Henderson (see grave detail page).
The follow note is stored against Thomas Henderson record:
23rd November 1844. A brilliant Mathematician, Thomas Henderson was appointed as the first Astronomer Royal for Scotland in 1834 and he proceeded to make over 60,000 stellar observations in the Calton Hill Observatory before his premature death. He was also the first person in history to have evidence of the distance to a nearby star in his observational data.