Hi Rab,

My GGGF Andrew Barclay was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in the Mid 19th Century. He was proposed by a visiting fellow to Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, who saw and viewed the stars through a Gregorian telescope that my GGGF had made. He was so impressed by the quality of the telescope and proposed my GGF for a Fellowship of the Scociety.

My GGGF was very proud to be an FRAS and he published an article about Jupiter that created a fair amount of adverse criticism.

The telescope was gifted to the Dick Institute in Kilmarnock and I fist saw it in 1998. I was thrilled to see this instrument that was built by my GGF.

I had been told as a wee boy about Auld Barclay as he was called by us but we did not know that any of his telescopes survived.

Attached is a photograph and a description of it.

andymacb