his wife in the grounds of the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope. Awards and honors Knighted in 1860 for his achievements as an astronomer. Lalande Prize (1866) Royal Medal of the Royal Society (1869), for his measurement of an arc of the meridian in the 1840s. The crater Maclear on the Moon is named after him; as is Maclear's Beacon on Table Mountain; the South African town, Maclear, Eastern Cape; and Cape Maclear in Malawi, so named by his friend David Livingstone. See also John Maclear, his son, was an admiral in the Royal Navy, and commander of the 1873–1876 expedition Charles Piazzi Smyth Edward James Stone Notes References External links Thomas Maclear 1794–1879 – SA History South African Astronomical Observatory History 1794 births 1879 deaths Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society Fellows of the Royal Society Irish astronomers Knights Bachelor People from Newtownstewart Royal Medal winners South African astronomers Ulster Scots people Recipients of the Lalande Prize