Richard Anthony Proctor was an English astronomer. He is best remembered for having produced one of the earliest maps of Mars in 1867 from 27 drawings by the English observer William Rutter Dawes. His map was later superseded by those of Giovanni Schiaparelli and Eugène Antoniadi and his nomenclature was dropped.
Richard A. Proctor
"Astronomy" Richard Proctor as caricatured by Spy in Vanity Fair, 3 March 1883
William Rutter Dawes was an English astronomer.
A photograph, c. 1863
The Thorrowgood Telescope at Cambridge Observatory
A Chart of Mars Laid down on the Stereographic Projection by R A Proctor. From: Other Worlds Than Ours, 1896.
Image: William Rutter Dawes grave Haddenham Buckinghamshire