Isis Pogson, FRAS (born Elizabeth Isis Pogson; 28 September 1852 – 14 May 1945),[1] was a British astronomer and meteorologist who was one of the first women to be elected as a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.
[5][1] Her mother Elizabeth Pogson died in 1869, and her father relied upon Isis to look after the other children.
[6] Although the society had elected a few women as honorary members, all the fellows had been male up to this time.
[12][13] Pogson (by then known by her married name Elizabeth Isis Kent) was successfully nominated in 1920 by Oxford professor H. H. Turner, five years after the Royal Astronomical Society first opened its doors to women.
[7][14][15] After retiring from astronomy, she married Herbert Clement Kent, a captain in the Merchant Navy,[7] on 17 August 1902 in Red Hill, Queensland, Australia.