1906 President, Royal Astronomical Society – 1911–1913 Vice-president, Royal Society – 1913–1915 Knighted – 1915 President, British Astronomical Association, 1916–1918 Royal Medal of the Royal Society – 1921 Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific – 1922 Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society – 1925 Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire – 1926 Gold medal of British Horological Institute – 1928 President of the International Astronomical Union – 1928–1932 Between 1894–1906, Dyson lived at 6 Vanbrugh Hill, Blackheath, London SE3, in a house now marked by a blue plaque. The crater Dyson on the Moon is named after him, as is the asteroid 1241 Dysona. Family In 1894 he married Caroline Bisset Best (d.1937), the daughter of Palemon Best, with whom he had two sons and six daughters. Frank Dyson and Freeman Dyson Although Frank Dyson and theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson were not known to be related, their fathers Rev Watson Dyson and George Dyson both hailed from West Yorkshire where the surname originates and is most densely clustered. Freeman Dyson credited Sir Frank with sparking his interest in astronomy: because they shared the same last name, Sir Frank's achievements were discussed by Freeman Dyson's family when he was a young boy. Inspired, Dyson's first attempt at writing was a 1931 piece of juvenilia entitled "Sir Phillip Robert's Erolunar Collision" – Sir Philip being a thinly disguised version of Sir Frank. In popular media Actor Alec McCowen was cast as Sir Frank Dyson in the TV series, Longitude in 2000. Selected writings Astronomy, Frank Dyson, London, Dent, 1910 See also Einstein and Eddington References External links Online catalogue of Dyson's working papers (part of the Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives held at Cambridge University Library) Bruce Medal page Awarding of Bruce Medal: PASP 34 (1922) 2 Awarding of RAS gold medal: MNRAS 85 (1925) 672 Astronomische Nachrichten 268 (1939) 395/396 (one line) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 100 (1940) 238 The Observatory 62 (1939) 179 Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 51 (1939) 336 1868 births 1939 deaths Astronomers Royal People who died at sea Burials at sea 20th-century British astronomers People from Measham Royal Medal winners People educated at Bradford Grammar School Fellows of the Royal Society Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire Second Wranglers Recipients of the Bruce