  T. H. Astbury (1858-1922) was for many years the much-respected headmaster of
a boys' junior school in the English market town of Wallingford. By night he
was a dedicated amateur astronomer who enjoyed observing meteors, variable
stars and many other objects. He began to search few new variable stars, his
first discovery being the bright Cepheid variable, RT Aurigae. This, along with
his discovery of 4 other variable stars, brought him to attention of some of
the most famous professional astronomers of the age, including Herbert Hall
Turner, Frank Dyson and Arthur Eddington.
