High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Richard Anthony Proctor (23 March 1837 in Chelsea, London - 12 September 1888) was an English astronomer. He is best remembered for having produced one of the earliest maps of Mars in 1867 from 27 drawings by the English observer William Rutter Dawes. His map was later superseded by those of Giovanni Schiaparelli and Eugène Antoniadi and his nomenclature was dropped (for instance, his "Kaiser Sea" became Syrtis Major).