Charles Michie Smith

Professor Charles Michie Smith CIE FRSE FRAS[1] (13 July 1854–27 September 1922) was a Scottish astronomer.

He founded the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory in the mountains of south India and served as its first director.

He almost immediately obtained a post as Professor of Physics at Madras Christian College and began in this role in the summer of 1877 aged 23.

His proposers were Alexander Crum Brown, Peter Guthrie Tait, George Chrystal and William Thomson, Lord Kelvin.

He died at his home there on 27 September 1922 and is buried locally with his spinster sister Lucy Smith, who joined him in later life.