Thomas Maclear
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Thomas Maclear was an Irish-born Cape Colony astronomer who became Her Majesty's astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope.
1833 portrait of Maclear
Mary Maclear
A memorial to Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille and Thomas Maclear, at Aurora, Western Cape, South Africa. The English portion of the inscription reads: "This is the site of the Maclear Beacon positioned in 1838 near the original North Terminal of the Arc of Meridian positioned by Abbé de la Caille, the first surveyor to introduce Geodetic Surveying into South Africa."
Maclear's Beacon, Table Mountain, Cape Town, 2023
The Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, is a former scientific institution in South Africa. Founded by the British Board of Longitude in 1820, its main building is now the headquarters building of t
Thomas Maclear
…Villa, Mowbray. By 1876, he had lost his sight, and died on 14 July 1878, aged 85, in Cape Town. He is buried next to his wife in the grounds of the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope. Knighted in 1860 for his achievements as an astronomer…
Main building of the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope
The Observatory in 1857.
Thomas Henderson. His Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape, 1831–1833
McClean building