Owen F. T. Roberts


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

Life

He was born in Mauritius in 1896 the son of Alfred Temple Roberts and his wife Susan Charlotte Catherine Fiennes-Clinton.
In the First World War he served with the Royal Garrison Artillery and rose to the rank of Captain, winning the Military Cross.
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.
He died in Leicester in 1968.

Family

In 1918 he married Ethel S. Fenner in Cheltenham.

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