British scientist’s marriage not initially attracting people of fashion (9)

'british scientist's' is the definition.
'Eddington' can be an answer for 'scientist's' (Eddington is an example). I am not certain of the 'british' bit.

'marriage not initially attracting people of fashion' is the wordplay.
'marriage' becomes 'wedding' (synonyms).
'not initially' means to remove the first letter.
'attracting' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'people of fashion' becomes 'ton' ('the ton' could once mean fashionable society).
'wedding' with its first letter removed is 'edding'.
'edding'+'ton'='EDDINGTON'

Can you help me to learn more?