A. David Thackeray

Andrew David Thackeray (19 June 1910 – 21 February 1978), was an astronomer trained at Cambridge University. He served as director of the Radcliffe Observatory for 23 years.

Career Thackeray went to school at Eton College, where he observed meteors for the British Astronomical Association. He went on to study mathematics at King's College, Cambridge. He was then director of the Radcliffe Observatory, Pretoria from 1951 until it was merged with the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope in 1974 to form the South African Astronomical Observatory. Planetary nebula IC 1266 is also known as Tc 1 (Thackeray 1).

Personal life He was born on 19 June 1910 in Chelsea, London. His father was the classical scholar Henry St. John Thackeray. He died in an accident on 21 February 1978. He was a nephew of Mary Acworth Evershed.

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