John Archibald Venn
John Archibald Venn Thomas Cecil Fitzpatrick | |
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Succeeded by | Arthur Armitage |
Personal details | |
Born | 10 November 1883 |
Died | 15 March 1958 | (aged 74)
Education | Trinity College, Cambridge Eastbourne College |
Military service | |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Branch/service | British Army |
Rank | Lieutenant |
Unit | Cambridgeshire Regiment |
John Archibald Venn (10 November 1883 – 15 March 1958) was a British
Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University 1941–1943, university archivist, and author, with his father, of Alumni Cantabrigienses. His father was logician John Venn (the creator of the Venn diagram
).
Venn was educated at
Thomas Cecil Fitzpatrick in 1932. At the time he was the youngest Head of a college in Cambridge. He was also the Gilbey
Lecturer in Agriculture.
The Guyanese writer Arthur Seymour was visiting Venn in the Queens' College Presidential Lodge when Venn showed Seymour the proofs of Alumni Cantabrigienses. Thirty years later the memory of seeing these proofs inspired Seymour to propose the creation of a Guyana National Encyclopedia modelled on the Australian National Encyclopedia. Although Seymour failed to gain financial support for the project, Venn's example did inspire Seymour to publish two volumes of the Dictionary of Guyanese Biography which were published in 1984 and 1986.
References
- "VENN, John Archibald", Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 19 Dec 2011[permanent dead link](subscription required)
- "Dr J Venn Elected President", The Times (London, England), Monday, Mar 14, 1932
External links
- Works by or about John Archibald Venn at Wikisource
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "John Archibald Venn", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews