Richard Inwards
Richard Inwards was a mining engineer, astronomer and meteorologist.
Inwards managed the San Baldomero mine in Bolivia for Evans and Askin and then a mine in Spain for the Manganese Company. He reported on mines and mining projects in South America, Mexico, Norway, Austria, Spain, Portugal and England. He was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society. He served as president of the Royal Meteorological Society in 1894 and 1895.
His father was the temperance lecturer Jabez Inwards. He died in 1937 at the age of 97 and was buried in the family grave at Highgate Cemetery.
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