[Thomas Roseby, Australian Congregational minister.] Signed portrait photograph on post card by the Crown Studios, Sydney.

13 x 8 cm, in black and white. Signed at foot 'Thomas Roseby'. In good condition, lightly aged. Photograph of a bearded and bespectacled Roseby taken from a broken plate. From the papers of the Anglo-American astronomer Mary Proctor, with presentation inscription to her on the reverse. Roseby's entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography notes his 'active interest' in astronomy: 'With his observatory at Marrickville and later at Mosman he often gave educational evenings to church groups and students. He lectured in New Zealand and contributed a paper, 'The Transit of Venus, Dunedin' in the New Zealand Journal of Science (Vol. 1, 1882-83) and in 1896 'Elliptical Orbit of Comet b 1894 (Gale)' in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, and was elected a fellow. President of the New South Wales branch of the British Astronomical Association in 1901-02 and 1914, he joined the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1913.'