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Fearon Fallows

was born 236 years ago

4 July 1788

Fearon Fallows was a mathematician and astronomer who was appointed as the first Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope. He arranged for the building of the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fallows/