text: * Fellow of the Royal Society (1869)
  * Rumford Medal, Royal Society of London (1874)
  * Janssen Medal, Paris Academy of Sciences (1889)
  * Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (1897)
  * President, British Association (1903 &ndash; 1904)
  * The crater Lockyer on the Moon and the crater Lockyer on Mars are both named after him, as is Norman Lockyer Island in Nunavut, Canada.