Hugh Blackburn
Hugh Blackburn | |
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| Born | 2 July 1823 |
| Died | 9 October 1909 |
professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow from 1849 to 1879. He succeeded Thomson's father James
in the chair of mathematics.
Life
Blackburn was born on 2 July 1823 in Craigflower, Torryburn, Fife. He was brought up at Killearn House, Stirlingshire, the seventh of eight children of wealthy Glasgow merchant John Blackburn and his wife Rebecca Leslie Gillies, the daughter of a Church of Scotland minister and a relative of Colin Maclaurin.[1] His elder brother was Judge Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn. His father became wealthy off sugar and slavery in Jamaica, becoming a merchant on his return to Glasgow. In the 1830s, when the British government emancipated the slaves, John received compensation for the ownership of over 550 slaves.[2]
Blackburn was educated at the
, while Thomson graduated second wrangler.He entered the
William Thomson
Works
- A treatise on trigonometry, London, 1855. Part of the Encyclopedia Metropolitana.
- A short sketch of the constitutional history of the University of Glasgow and of Glasgow College in that University : with remarks on the Universities (Scotland) Bill, 1858
- (ed. with William Thomson ) Sir Isaac Newton's Principia, 1871
- Elements of plane trigonometry for the use of the junior class of mathematics in the University of Glasgow, 1871
References
- ^ "Hugh Blackburn". School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
- ^ "Summary of Individual | Legacies of British Slavery".
- ^ a b c "Blackburn, Hugh (BLKN840H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "Biography of Hugh Blackburn". University of Glasgow. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
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