Henry Hamilton (priest)
Henry Parr Hamilton (3 April 1794 – 7 February 1880) was an English clergyman and mathematician, Dean of Salisbury for 30 years.
He was born at Blandfield, Midlothian, the son of Alexander Hamilton, Professor of Midwifery at Edinburgh University. He was educated at Edinburgh University and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1816 and MA in 1819.[1]
He wrote two textbooks on analytical geometry, The Principles of Analytical Geometry (1826) and An Analytical System of Conic Sections (1828; 5th edn, 1843). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1828 as "a gentleman well versed in mathematics",[2] and was also elected FRS (Edinburgh) in 1922, as well as FRAS and FGS.
He became a curate in Cambridgeshire in 1825 and the rector of Wath near Ripon in 1830,[3] becoming a rural dean in 1847. In 1850 he was appointed Dean of Salisbury, a position he filled until his death in 1880.
He took a great interest in children's education, delivering sermons and writing a book on the subject, Practical Remarks on Popular Education (1847).
He died at the Salisbury deanery in 1880. He had married Ellen, daughter of Thomas Mason of Copt Hewick, Yorkshire, with whom he had one daughter, Katherine Jane.
References
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB
- 1794 births
- 1880 deaths
- People from Midlothian
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Deans of Salisbury
- Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Academics of the University of Edinburgh
- Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
