Dr. Keith Tritton (b.1944) is an astronomer and observatory manager. He joined the Royal Greenwich Observatory as a research astronomer in 1967 and later worked at the Radcliffe Observatory in South Africa and the Royal Observatory Edinburgh. Tritton was head of the UK Schmidt Telescope in Australia and of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes in the Canary Islands before his return to the Royal Greenwich Observatory where he was head of the Astronomy Division until his retirement in 1997. On La Palma, Tritton was Joe Gietzen’s successor as officer in charge of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, taking over in May 1984 and staying till 1987, a period that coincided with the first operational years of the Isaac Newton and Jacobus Kapteyn telescopes. In 1985 and 1986 he carried out and recorded interviews with a number of the British scientists and engineers who had played various roles in the events that led up to the establishment of the Isaac Newton Group.