Person:Robert Rendell (1)

Listed in 1901 Census aged 27 born Vic, Aust, Living in Lewisham, London, Occupation Civil Servant, Royal Observatory Recorded in the Parish Magazine Supplement of 1943 as Vicar of All Saints & St James Chapel, Brightlingsea (Aged 70)

Newspaper clipping reporting Retirement as Vicar

1. ↑ Birth, in Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages. Pioneer Index, Victoria, 1836 - 1888: Index to Births, Deaths and Marriages in Victoria
   Reg. No. 21761, 1873.
2.   Issue 2, Page 130, in Royal Astronomical Society. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 115. (Oxford University Press)
   Voume 115, 1955 April.

   ROBERT FERMOR RENDELL was born on 1873 October 14. He was educated at the Roan School and from 1892 to 1903 was a computer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. He left Greenwich to become First Assistant at the Durban Observatory. However, he was a man of strong religious convictions, ever an active church worker and in 1907 he relinquished his astronomical position to enter the church. He took orders, became Curate at Barrow-in-Furnesss and later the Rector of Brightlingsea, Essex. He was married and had one son and two adopted daughters.
   
   He became a Fellow of the Society on 1896 February 14 and died on 1954 April 18.
   
   http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/115/2/130.full.pdf