Michael Heriot Huth Walters (1909 - 1934)

RA Collection: People and Organisations

Astronomer and typesetter, the latter at The Swan Press, Chelsea in the 1920s and 30s. Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Educated at Eton from 1922 to 1927. Studied mathematics at King’s College, Cambridge. In 1933 he obtained a Rayleigh prize, and was awarded a Proctor Visiting Fellowship at Princeton University where he continued his astronomical research. A promising career was cut short by his sudden death at the age of twenty-five on 26 March 1934.