Named in memory of Leslie John Comrie (1893–1950), New Zealand-born innovator in computational science and authority on the production of mathematical tables. Superintendent of the British Nautical Almanay Office for six years from 1930, he applied calculating machines to astronomical computing. As president of IAU Commission 4 (Ephemerides) he initiated the annual Apparent Places of Fundamental Stars and saw adopted his earlier proposal for the use of standard equinoxes, the first being 1950. Though resident in Britain for most of his working life he actively fostered and assisted astronomy in New Zealand. (M 18306) Comrie is also honored by a lunar crater. _ _.