vlii Proceedings of Royal Society of Edinburgh. 
Royal Society’s catalogue, besides four papers of which he was joint 
author. 
In addition to the well-earned honours bestowed on him by the 
Royal Astronomical Society, of which he was repeatedly President, 
he was elected President of the Royal Society, and received both a 
Copley and a Royal Medal. He was made a C.B. in 1871, and a 
K.C.B. in the follovdng year. In 1875 he received the Freedom of 
the City of London, and also that of the Company of Spectacle 
Makers, the latter honour in acknowledgment of the signal manner 
in which he had given a refined development to the Company’s 
craft. Oxford, Cambridge, and Edinburgh conferred on him their 
honorary degrees. Of the Royal Society he was President from 
1871 to 1877, and Fellow for nearly sixty years. At the time of 
his death he was by many years the senior Honorary Fellow of this 
Society, having been elected in 1835. Numerous honours came 
to him from abroad, amongst them the Lalande Medal. He was 
one of the eight Foreign Associates of the French Academy. 
In 1830 he married Richarda, daughter of the Rev. R. Smith of 
Edensor, by whom he had nine children \ of these, three sons and 
three daughters survived him. Lady Airy died in 1875, almost 
exactly six years before he resigned the post of Astronomer-Royal, 
which he did on August 15, 1881, shortly after the completion of 
his eightieth year. The closing years of his life were spent not far 
from the great observatory he had directed for more than forty-six 
years. He died on January 2, 1892, from an internal complication, 
the result of a fall. 
