§ Mr. Bishopasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will detail in the OFFICIAL REPORT the names 124W of the present and former Directors of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and Astronomers Royal.
§ Mrs. ThatcherThe present Astronomer Royal and Director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory is Sir Richard v.d.R. Woolley. His predecessors, in order of appointment, were:
John Flamsteed 1675–1719 Edmund Halley 1720–1742 James Bradley 1742–1762 Nathaniel Bliss 1762–1764 Neville Maskelyne 1765–1811 John Pond 1811–1835 Sir George Airy 1835–1881 Sir William Christie 1881–1910 Sir Frank Dyson 1910–1933 Sir Harold Spencer Jones 1933–1955