Geoffrey Thomas Bennett 1868-1943

1944 ◽  
Vol 4 (13) ◽  
pp. 596-615
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
London Mathematical Society ◽  
Mathematical Society ◽  
University College

Dr Geoffrey Thomas Bennett, who was made Fellow of the Royal Society in 1914, and served on the Council 1936-1938, died at Cambridge, after an operation, on 11 October 1943. Born in London, 30 June 1868, he was at University College School, under H. W. Eve as Headmaster, for three years, till 1886, but at University College, of which the school was then an integral part, for the session 1886-1887. As a distinguished alumnus he was elected Fellow of University College in 1892. At University College School his mathematical master was Robert Tucker, well known for many years as the genial and keen Secretary (with Morgan Jenkins) of the London Mathematical Society, who edited Clifford’s papers and was the origin of ‘Tucker’s Circle’. Bennett obtained a scholarship at St John’s College, Cambridge, in December 1886, and came into residence October 1887. Another pupil of Tucker’s, Vaughan, came up to Trinity College at the same time. In 1890 Bennett was placed first of the men in the Mathematical Tripos, as senior wrangler, Miss Fawcett being placed above him; in 1891 he obtained, with her, a First Class in the Second Part of the examination, and the first Smith’s Prize in 1892. He was then made Fellow of St John’s College; but in 1893 he was appointed at Emmanuel College to be College Lecturer in Mathematics (and Junior Fellow at that college), with W. B. Allcock as his Emmanuel colleague. Previously Mr R. R. Webb, though resident in St John’s, had given lectures for the group of five colleges of which Emmanuel was part, and Bennett had been ‘coached’ by him through his undergraduate career.

scholarly journals Obituary notices

1930 ◽  
Vol 126 (803) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
London Mathematical Society ◽  
Mathematical Society ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Senior Member ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society

Dr. Glaisher died on December 7, 1928, at the age of eighty years. At the time of his death he was the senior of the actual Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, was the senior member of the London Mathematical Society, and was almost the senior in standing among the Fellows of the Royal Society and among the Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society. Throughout all his years he was devoted to astronomy, chiefly in its mathematical developments. In his prime he ranked as one of the recognised English pure mathematicians of his generation, pursuing mainly well-established subjects by methods that were uninfluenced by the current developments of analysis then effected in France and in Germany. Towards the end of his life he had attained high station as an authority on pottery, of which he had diligently amassed a famous collection. Glaisher was the elder son of James Glaisher, F. R. S., himself an astronomer, a mathematician specially occupied with the calculation of numerical tables, and a pioneer in meteorology, not without risk to his life. For the father, one of the founders of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, was an aeronaut of note; with Coxwell, in 1862, he made the famous balloon ascent which reached the greatest height (about seven miles) ever recorded by survivors.

scholarly journals Dame Mary (Lucy) Cartwright, D.B.E. 17 December 1900 – 3 April 1998

2000 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 19-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.K. Hayman
Keyword(s):  
Chaos Theory ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
London Mathematical Society ◽  
Mathematical Society ◽  
Modern World

Mary Cartwright, with J.E. Littlewood, F.R.S., first observed the phenomena that developed into Chaos Theory. Thus she had a significant effect on the modern world. She was the only woman so far to be a president of the London Mathematical Society, one of the first to be a Fellow of The Royal Society and the first woman to serve on its Council.

scholarly journals Godfrey Harold Hardy, 1877–1947

1948 ◽  
Vol 32 (299) ◽  
pp. 49-51
Author(s):  
T. A. A. B. ◽  
M. H. A. Newman ◽  
A. V. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
London Mathematical Society ◽  
Mathematical Society ◽  
Full Account ◽  
The Past ◽  
Inaugural Lecture ◽  
Mathematical World

The death of the greatest English mathematician of our time is no mere national loss, for Hardy was recognised throughout the mathematical world as a master of our science. Of his studies, Hardy himself said, in his Inaugural Lecture at Oxford: “What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence”. Few of us would dare to call Hardy’s contribution to mathematics small, while none of us can have any doubt about the lasting nature of his work. For a full account of the new pathways he opened up, the new territories he explored, reference must be made to the notices being prepared for the Royal Society and the London Mathematical Society. In the Gazette, it is fitting that we should record with special emphasis the debt which teachers of mathematics in this country owe to Hardy for the vast improvements in the teaching of analysis during the past forty years, from vagueness to precision, from obscurity to clarity, along lines mapped out and laid down for us by him.

scholarly journals George Barker Jeffery, 1891-1957

1958 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 128-137 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Applied Mathematics ◽  
London Mathematical Society ◽  
First Year ◽  
Conscientious Objector ◽  
Active Service ◽  
University College ◽  
University College London ◽  
Short Time

George Barker Jeffery was born on 9 May 1891. He came from a Quaker family, and remained a Quaker all his life. He was educated at Strand School, King’s College, and Wilson’s Grammar School, Camberwell. In 1909 he entered University College, London, to begin a course, common at that time, of two years at the college to be followed by one year’s training as a teacher. He was not an entrance scholar, but his work in mathematics showed so much promise that he was elected to a scholarship in mathematics at the end of his first year. In 1911 he entered the London Day Training College for his teacher’s training. It was there that he met Elizabeth Schofield, whom he married in 1915. However he had already commenced mathematical research, and he read his first paper (1)* before the Royal Society in June 1912, the month following his twenty-first birthday. His later career showed how great an impression had been made upon him by his year’s training as a teacher. However, after it was over he returned to University College as a research student and assistant to L. N. G. Filon, who was then Professor of Applied Mathematics. He always had a great admiration for Filon, though this was not uncritical, as is shown by the obituary notices which he later wrote for the Royal Society, the London Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association. In 1914 Filon went away on active service, and Jeffery, aged 23, was left in charge of the Department of Applied Mathematics. In 1916 he was elected a Fellow of University College. However, as a Quaker he had a conscientious objection to performing military service, so that he could not do this, nor was he allowed to remain at the college. In 1916 he spent a short time in prison as a ‘conscientious objector’, though later he was allowed to undertake ‘work of national importance’. In 1919, when the war was over, he returned to the college, again as an assistant to Filon. In spite of all the difficulties of the war period he had, as the list of his publications shows, maintained a steady output of original work. In 1921 he was promoted to the grade of University Reader in Mathematics.

scholarly journals Alfred Young, 1873 - 1940

1941 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 761-778 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Large Family ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Trinity College Dublin ◽  
The Family ◽  
University College ◽  
Edward Young ◽  
Justice Of The Peace

Alfred Young was born at Birchfield, Farnworth, near Widnes, Lancashire, on 16 April 1873. He died after a short illness on Sunday, 15 December 1940. He was the youngest son of Edward Young, a prosperous Liverpool merchant and a Justice of the Peace for the county. His father married twice and had a large family, eleven living to grow up. The two youngest sons of the two branches of the family rose to scientific distinction: Sydney Young, of the elder family, became the distinguished chemist of Owen’s College, Manchester, University College, Bristol, and finally, for many years, of Trinity College, Dublin. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in his thirty-sixth year and died in 1937. Alfred, who was fifteen years his junior, was elected Fellow in 1934, at the age of sixty, in recognition of his mathematical contributions to the algebra of invariants and the theory of groups, a work to which he had devoted over ten years of academic life followed by thirty years of leisure during his duties as Rector of a country parish. Recognition of his remarkable powers came late but swiftly: he was admitted to the Fellowship in the year when his name first came up for election. In 1879 the family moved to Bournemouth, and in due course the younger brothers went to school and later to a tutor, under whom Alfred suffered for his brain power, being the only boy considered worth keeping in.

scholarly journals Obituary notices

1930 ◽  
Vol 129 (811) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Applied Mathematics ◽  
London Mathematical Society ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Mathematical Physics ◽  
Mathematical Society

Thomas John I’Anson Bromwich, who died on August 24, 1929, was one of the most accomplished and most versatile among English mathematicians of the last fifty years. He was born in Wolverhampton on February 8, 1875, but spent his youth in Natal, and was educated in Durban. He came to Cambridge, as a Pensioner of St. John’s College, in October, 1892. A brilliant career as an undergraduate ended when he was Senior Wrangler in 1895, in an exceptionally strong year which included also E. T. Whittaker and J. H. Grace- He obtained a Fellowship in 1897, but left Cambridge in 1902 to be Professor of Mathematics in Galway, returning in 1907 when appointed a permanent lecturer at St. John’s. He was also a University Lecturer from 1909 to 1926. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1906 and a Doctor of Science in 1909. He was for many years a most enthusiastic and energetic member of the London Mathematical Society, of which he was Secretary from 1911 to 1919, and Vice-President in 1919 and 1920. He married in 1901, and leaves a widow and one son. Bromwich’s work covers so wide a field that it is hardly possible for any one person to deal with it competently. His later work in mathematical physics is discussed in Dr. Jeffrey’s notice in the ‘Journal of the London Mathematical Society,’ vol. 5, p. 220. Prof. H. W. Turnbull and Prof. A. E. H. Love have very kindly provided me with notes concerning Bromwich’s early work, in algebra and in applied mathematics respectively, and what I say about these subjects is very largley based on them.

scholarly journals William Hume-Rothery, 1899-1968

1969 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 109-139 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The North ◽  
University College ◽  
University College London ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
Member Of Parliament

William Hume-Rothery was born on 15 May 1899. His hyphenated surname reflects his immediate ancestry; his grandfather, William Rothery, was a clergyman of advanced views, who married Mary Hume, an authoress, with whom he shared an interest in poetry. Mary was the daughter of Joseph Hume, who died in 1855. He was a Member of Parliament, of radical persuasions, a Freeman of the City of London, one of the founders of University College London, and was concerned in the development of the British Museum. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was one of the movers of the 1832 Reform Bill. There is evidence that he was economyminded, particularly in relation to the Privy Purse, which did not particularly commend him to his Sovereign. William and his wife, who took the name Hume-Rothery, lived for some time in the North of England, but eventually, at about the time of William’s resignation from the Ministry, moved south to Cheltenham. Their son, Joseph Hume Hume-Rothery (our William Hume-Rothery’s father) was born in 1866, and lived at Cheltenham until his own marriage to Ellen Maria Carter. Joseph never went to school; he was educated by tutors, and it is a tribute both to him and to them that he took First-class Honours in Physics at London University (1886), became a Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, and was 16th Wrangler in 1890. He then read Law and was called to the Bar in 1893. After his marriage, Joseph and his wife moved to Worcester Park, Surrey, and it was here that William Hume-Rothery was born. Finding his work as a patents lawyer somewhat uncongenial, Joseph and his family returned to Cheltenham, where their son William, with two young sisters, spent most of his childhood

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