Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet 1841 - 1912

occupation:
Music theorist,
Scientist
Nationality:
British
born in:
Alnwick, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom

Bosanquet developed classes for musical tunings used mapping pitches in a coordinate arrangement he called a 'generalized keyboard',

Sometime Professor of Acoustics at the Royal College of Music. Authority on organ construction, and published a number of experimental and theoretical papers on acoustics, electromagnetism and astronomy

1871 - elected Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society

1890 - elected Fellow of the Royal Society.