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.