Joseph Gledhill (17 November 1837 – 20 March 1906) was a British

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. He worked as an assistant at the Bermerside Observatory in Halifax, West Yorkshire,

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. In 1879 he co-authored the book ''A Handbook of Double Stars'' with Edward Crossley and Rev.

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(who was later Canon of Worcester). Gledhill was elected a Fellow of the

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on 15 November 1865 and a Fellow of the

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on 8 May 1874. A crater on

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is named in his honour.

Obituary

MNRAS 67 (1907) 232

References

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