Thomas Bond Sprague
Thomas Bond Sprague
Life
Sprague was born in London the son of Thomas Sprague, a wholesale stationer.[2] He attended Tarvin Hall School near Chester.
Sprague was an undergraduate at
In 1874 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were David Smith, Samuel Raleigh, Philip Kelland, and Peter Guthrie Tait.[2]
He retired at age 70. He lived at 29 Buckingham Terrace in Edinburgh's West End.[3]
He died on 29 November 1920 at West Holme in Woldingham in Surrey.
Memorials
The Thomas Bond Sprague Prize was established in his honour in 2012 within Churchill College, Cambridge, and the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge.[4]
Family
He married twice: firstly in 1859 to Margaret Vaughn Steains; secondly in 1908 to Jean Elizabeth Stuart.[2]
Notes
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Thomas Bond Sprague", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- ^ ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
- ^ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1911-12
- ^ Cambridge University Reporter CLXII no 38
