Robert Cross Smith

Robert Cross Smith (1795-1832) was an English astrologer, writing under the pseudonym of "Raphael".

He collected the issues of the failed periodical in a volume entitled The Astrologer Of The Nineteenth Century in the same year.

A substantially enlarged edition appeared in 1825 as the "seventh edition", with additional material attributed to "Merlinus Anglicus Junior" (Merlinus Anglicus Junior: The English Merlin Revived was the title of a 1644 book by William Lilly).

From 1827 until his death in 1832, he edited an astrological almanac, entitled The Prophetic Messenger.

His almanac continued to be edited as Raphael’s Ephemeris and would become a standard work in British and US American astrology.

Illustration from *The Astrologer Of The Nineteenth Century* (1825). The image is based on an 1806 illustration by Ebenezer Sibly showing Edward Kelly and John Dee .