DOUBLE STAR ASTRONOMY IN THE UK 1832-1932

The emergence of double star observation in the UK is traced, from the groundwork of Herschel & South to that of Espin & Milburn in the earl y 1930s. The Golden Age of the British amateur in the nineteenth centu ry is also contrasted with the development of the professional worker from 1893 onwards. A pattern of research developed over a hundred year span, which indicated that a vigorous local school of double star ast ronomy had come into existence.