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George Booth writes:
Interesting to see with the passage of time just who the observers
were beginning with Henry Doubleday, the lepidopterist, who has
a blue plaque, through the ladies and gentlemen of several local
families and on to post WW2 when it was the turn of sewage works
and pumping stations to record rainfall.

Doubleday has a short Wikipedia article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Doubleday_(1808-1875)

but it doesn't mention his meteorology. If you'd be willing to write a
sentence or two about it, preferably with a supporting reference, then
I'd be happy to add it to the article.
--
John Hall
"Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable
of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it."
Sir Thomas Beecham (1879-1961) to a lady cellist