CARRINGTON, RICHARD CHRISTOPHER (1826 1875), English astronomer, son of a brewer at Brentford, was born in London on May 26, 1826, and educated at Trinity col lege, Cambridge. He was astronomical observer in the University of Durham (1849-52), and in 1853 established an observatory of his own at Redhill. Here he devoted three years to a survey of the zone of the heavens within 9° of the North Pole, the results of which are contained in his Redhill Catalogue of 3,735 Stars. He investigated the motions of sunspots, by which he determined the elements of the sun's rotation and made the im portant discovery of a systematic drift of the photosphere, caus ing the rotation-periods of spots to lengthen with increase of solar latitude. He died on Nov. 27, See Monthly Notices Roy. Astr. Society, vols. xiv., xviii., xix., xxxvi.; Memoirs Roy. Astr. Soc., xxvii.; The Times, Nov. 22 and Dec. 7, 1875 ; Roy. Society's Cat. Scient. Papers, vols. i. and vii.