Charles Edward Adams (1 October 1870 – 31 October 1945) was a New Zealand university lecturer,

surveyor Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is ca ...

astronomer An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. They observe astronomical objects such as stars, planets, natural satellite, moons, comets and galaxy, g ...

and

seismologist Seismology (; from Ancient Greek σεισμός (''seismós'') meaning "earthquake" and -λογία (''-logía'') meaning "study of") is the scientific study of earthquakes and the propagation of elastic waves through the Earth or through other ...

. His father, Charles William Adams, emigrated from

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in 1862 and was also a surveyor and astronomer. Charles was born on 1 October 1870 in

Lawrence, New Zealand Lawrence is a small town in Otago, in New Zealand's South Island. It is located on State Highway 8, the main route from Dunedin to the inland towns of Queenstown and Alexandra. It lies 35 kilometres to the northwest of Milton, 11 kilometres nor ...

, educated at the

University of Canterbury The University of Canterbury ( mi, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha; postnominal abbreviation ''Cantuar.'' or ''Cant.'' for ''Cantuariensis'', the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was ...

(then Canterbury College) and then lectured at Lincoln University and

Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington ( mi, Te Herenga Waka) is a university in Wellington, New Zealand. It was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. The university is well know ...

before becoming government astronomer.

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1870 births 1945 deaths New Zealand educators Victoria University of Wellington faculty New Zealand surveyors University of Canterbury alumni People from Lawrence, New Zealand New Zealand seismologists 20th-century New Zealand astronomers {{NewZealand-scientist-stub