Owen F. T. Roberts

Captain Owen Fiennes Temple Roberts FRSE MC (18961968) was a 20th British astronomer and meteorologist.

Life

He was born in Mauritius in 1896 the son of Alfred Temple Roberts (1857-1911) and his wife Susan Charlotte Catherine Fiennes-Clinton (d.1936).[1]

In the First World War he served with the Royal Garrison Artillery and rose to the rank of Captain, winning the Military Cross.[2]

After the war he completed his studies at Cambridge University graduating MA around 1921. He then began lecturing in Astronomy and Meteorology at Aberdeen University.

In 1928 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Hector Munro Macdonald, James Goodwillie, Ralph Allan Sampson and Arthur Crichton Mitchell.[3]

He died in Leicester in 1968.

Family

In 1918 he married Ethel S. Fenner in Cheltenham.[4]

Publications

  • The Theoretical Scattering of Smoke in a Turbulent Atmosphere (1923)
  • A Note on Measuring the Gradient Wind (1946)
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