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Henderson, Thomas

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Henderson, Thomas (1798-1844)

Scottish astronomer. He became the first Astronomer Royal for Scotland in 1834.

He was born in Dundee and trained and practised as a lawyer, but, having acquired a considerable reputation as an able amateur astronomer, was appointed astronomer at the observatory at the Cape of Good Hope 1831. There he gathered the data from which he later deduced the distance to Rigil Kent, the first stellar distance to be reliably determined.
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