About Walter Goodacre
Lived 1856 – 1938 (aged 81–82). Walter Goodacre was an astronomer and businessperson.
Walter Goodacre (1856 – 1 May 1938) was a British businessman and amateur astronomer.
He was the second Director of the Lunar Section of the British Astronomical Association, serving from 1897 to 1937. He acted as the Association's president from 1922 to 1924. In 1910, he published a 77" diameter hand drawn map of the Moon. In 1931, he published a larger book of maps of the Moon's surface with descriptions of features.
Goodacre was born in Loughborough in 1856. Goodacre died on 1 May 1938 at his residence in Bournemouth.
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British astronomer (1856–1938)
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Walter Goodacre was born in 1856 in Loughborough.
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Walter Goodacre died on 1 May 1938 in Bournemouth.
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Walter Goodacre was an astronomer and businessperson.
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