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Charles
Piazzi Smyth was born in Naples, son of English amateur astronomer,
surveyor and antiquary, Admiral William Henry Smyth, .
Charles
Piazzi Smyth was
named after a Sicilian astronomer.
Piazzi Smyth
was the uncle of Baden Powel, founder of the World Scout Movement.
[Sir William
Matthew Flinders Petrie, Seventy Years in Archaeology
(1932)] |