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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human Gavan McCarthy updated 2026-03-02 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001325b.htm person Lenehan Henry Alfred FRAS AACR2 28 August 1843 2 May 1908 Place of Birth Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Place of Death Normanhurst, New South Wales, Australia Astronomer Henry Lenehan initially worked as a clerk with Australian Joint Stock Bank where he was posted to Ipswich and Rockhampton in Queensland. He then went on to work as a draftsman in the Railway Department (Queensland?). His appointment as an assistant to the Government Astronomer of New South Wales (Henry C, Russell) followed shortly afterwards (1870). Lenehan remained in this post for over thirty years, being responsible for recording accurate star positions using the transit instrument. On several occasions he was Acting Government Astronomer. Finally, on 1 January 1907, he was appointed Government Astronomer and quickly set about organising for thousands of observations and readings to be made. These included gravity readings taken by the Sydney Observatory, magnetic studies by the Red Hill Observatory and the observation of the total solar eclipse and Daniel's comet in 1908 at Flint Island. Henry Lenehan was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society of London, and was a long-term councillor and President of the Royal Society of New South Wales. 1865 c. 1870 Career position - Clerk, Australian Joint Stock Bank in New South Wales and Queensland 1870 1906 Career position - Assistant to the Government Astronomer, Sydney Observatory 1875 1875 Career position - Acting Government Astronomer 1887 1887 Career position - Acting Government Astronomer 1888 Career event - Original [founding] member, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 1894 1894 Award - Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society, London (FRAS) 1901 1901 Career position - Acting Government Astronomer 1903 1906 Career position - Acting Government Astronomer 1905 1906 Career position - President, Royal Society of New South Wales 1 Jan 1907 1 January 1908 Career position - Government Astronomer, Sydney Observatory Russell, Henry Chamberlain (1836 - 1907) Sydney Observatory, Colony and State of New South Wales (1858 - )

Acting Government Astronomer 1875, 1887, 1901, 1903 - 1906; Government Astronomer 1907 - 1908

 Royal Society of New South Wales (1866 - )

President 1905 - 1909

 Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science (1888 - 1930)

Original [founding] member 1888 -

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 Lenehan, Henry Alfred (1843-1908)

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 'Lenehan, Henry Alfred', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Lenehan, Henry Alfred Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Sydney Observatory 1858-1983 Wood, H. Sydney Observatory 1858-1983 1983 Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of Australia 5 2 273-281 Book Section: Lenehan, Henry Alfred (1843-1908), astronomer Wood, Harley Lenehan, Henry Alfred (1843-1908), astronomer Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1986 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 73-74 Journal Article: Seeing Stars in the City: a History of Early Astronomy in Sydney Tyler, Peter J. Seeing Stars in the City: a History of Early Astronomy in Sydney 2009 Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 142 3/4 1-14