Editing Arthur Matthew Weld Downing (section)

{{Short description|Anglo-Irish mathematician and astronomer (1850–1917)}}
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| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1850|4|13|df=y}}
| birth_place       = [[Carlow|Carlow, County Carlow]], United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|1917|12|8|1850|4|13|df=y}}
| death_place       = [[Bloomsbury]], London, England
| fields            = Mathematics, astronomy
| workplaces        = [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]], [[HM Nautical Almanac Office]]
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| alma_mater        = [[Trinity College Dublin]]
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| spouse            = Ellen Jane Downing
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'''Arthur Matthew Weld Downing''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRAS}} (13 April 1850&nbsp;– 8 December 1917) was an Anglo-Irish mathematician and [[astronomer]]. Downing's major contribution to astronomy is in the calculation of the positions and movements of [[Astronomical object|astronomical bodies]], as well as being a founder of the [[British Astronomical Association]].<ref name="DSB">{{cite web|last=McKenna|first=Susan M. P.|title=Downing, Arthur Matthew Weld|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/downing-arthur-matthew-weld|url-status=live|access-date=21 October 2021|website=Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography|publisher=[[Encyclopedia.com]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030143405/https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/downing-arthur-matthew-weld |archive-date=30 October 2020 }}</ref><ref name="RAS">{{cite journal|title=Obituary Notices: Fellows:- Downing, Arthur Matthew Weld|journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|date=1918|volume=78|pages=241–244|url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0078//0000241.000.html|accessdate=13 April 2017|doi=10.1093/mnras/78.4.241a|doi-access=free}}</ref>