Bewick Bridge
Bewick Bridge (1767, Linton, Cambridgeshire – 15 May 1833, Cherry Hinton) was an English vicar and mathematical author.
In 1786, he was admitted as a sizar to study mathematics Peterhouse, Cambridge University, where he graduated as senior wrangler and won the Smith's Prize in 1790.[1][2]
In October 1790, he was ordained a deacon at Ely, and became a priest in 1792; in the same year he became a Fellow at Peterhouse, during which he spent time as both as college moderator and as proctor.[1] From 1806 until 1816, he was Professor of Mathematics at the East India Company College, Haileybury.[1] He wrote a number of mathematical texts:[2] his Algebra achieved international circulation.[3] He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.[1]
From 1816 until 1833, he was vicar of Cherry Hinton in Cambridge, where in 1818 he built the vicarage, and he founded the village school in 1832 (now a Church of England PrimarySchool).[1] He died on 15 May 1833, aged 66.[1][2] In September 2011 the Cherry Hinton Community Junior School was named after Bewick, becoming Bewick Bridge Community Primary School.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.. Repr. Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-108-00207-3.
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- ↑ We're Changing, Cherry Hinton Community Junior School, retrieved 2011-06-28.
External links
- Works by or about Bewick Bridge in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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