Noah Churchill-Baird, MLIS’23, and Mark Tovey, curator of the Hume Cronyn Memorial Observatory, stand beside a 10-inch refracting telescope. (Christopher Kindratsky/Western Communications)
Noah Churchill-Baird, MLIS'23, and Mark Tovey, curator of the Hume Cronyn Memorial Observatory, stand beside a 10-inch refracting telescope. (Christopher Kindratsky/Western Communications) Digital history captures life of astronomer William Colgrove, a Renaissance man who loomed large at Western He was an early citizen scientist, astronomer, botanist, poet and pastor. William G. Colgrove enriched his life with a near-endless cycle of professional pursuits and hobbies, from preaching and poetry to building educational astronomy models and designing children's toys for fun. Though he was a lifelong presence at Western, starting as a student, later becoming a lecturer and fixture in multiple departments, Colgrove has until now represented a mostly hidden slice of university - and London - history. Luckily, he kept track of the history himself. Thanks to a team of Western researchers, Colgrove's own story - captured in the pages of a personal scrapbook, part diary, part highlight reel , chronicling his life from his birth in 1872 to his death in 1958 - has been preserved digitally and made public. "The Colgrove family came to the Cronyn Observatory for its 75 anniversary.
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