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The Rey. HENRY W. WATSON, D.Sc., F.R.S., for many years rector of Berkswell, near Coventry, died at Brighton on Sunday.
He was born in London in 1827, and resigned the benefice of Berkswell in August last and went to live at Brighton. He was the son of the late Thomas Watson, R.N., and received his early education at King's College, London. He was the winner of the first mathematical scholarship at the College, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1648. In 1850 he graduated as second wrangler and Smith's prizeman, and became Fellow and assistant tutor of his college, He took the degree of D.Sc. in 1883. In 1854 he became mathematical master in the City of London School, and in 1857 mathematical lecturer at King's College, London. He was ordained deacon by the then Bishop of Ely in 1856, and in 1855 received priest's orders from the Bishop of London.
In 1837 he accepted an assistant mastership at Harrow School, where he remained until 1865, when he was presented to the rectory of Berkswell. This afforded him ample leisure to pursue his mathematical and sclentific studies, and he was a frequent contributor to scientific literature. In 1871 he prepared a treatise on Geometry for Longman's Sories of Text Books of Science, and in 1879 he was joint author with Mr. S. H. Burbury, F.R.S., of "A. Treatise on Generalized Co-ordinates Applied to the Kinetics of a Material System." The article under the heading" Molecule" in the ninth edition of the "Encyclopædia Britannica" was also from his pen. Other publications of his were "Kinetic Theory of Gases" (two editions); various papers, mathematical and physical, in the Philosophical Magazine, the Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, and other periodicals; and "Electricity and Magnetism (1) Electrostatics, 1885, (2) Magnetism and Electro-Dynamics, 1889."
In 1860-61 Dr. Watson's University appointed him Moderator and Examiner for the Mathematical Tripos, and he was an additional examiner in 1877. He was nominated by the Senate of the University as its representative Governor on King Edward's Foundation, Birmingham. For three years he held the office of bailiff of the school. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1881.
An ardent mountaineer, he was one of the original founders of the Alpine Club.
The Rey. HENRY W. WATSON, D.Sc., F.R.S., for many years rector of Berkswell, near Coventry, died at Brighton on Sunday.
He was born in London in 1827, and resigned the benefice of Berkswell in August last and went to live at Brighton. He was the son of the late Thomas Watson, R.N., and received his early education at King's College, London. He was the winner of the first mathematical scholarship at the College, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1648. In 1850 he graduated as second wrangler and Smith's prizeman, and became Fellow and assistant tutor of his college, He took the degree of D.Sc. in 1883. In 1854 he became mathematical master in the City of London School, and in 1857 mathematical lecturer at King's College, London. He was ordained deacon by the then Bishop of Ely in 1856, and in 1855 received priest's orders from the Bishop of London.
In 1837 he accepted an assistant mastership at Harrow School, where he remained until 1865, when he was presented to the rectory of Berkswell. This afforded him ample leisure to pursue his mathematical and sclentific studies, and he was a frequent contributor to scientific literature. In 1871 he prepared a treatise on Geometry for Longman's Sories of Text Books of Science, and in 1879 he was joint author with Mr. S. H. Burbury, F.R.S., of "A. Treatise on Generalized Co-ordinates Applied to the Kinetics of a Material System." The article under the heading" Molecule" in the ninth edition of the "Encyclopædia Britannica" was also from his pen. Other publications of his were "Kinetic Theory of Gases" (two editions); various papers, mathematical and physical, in the Philosophical Magazine, the Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, and other periodicals; and "Electricity and Magnetism (1) Electrostatics, 1885, (2) Magnetism and Electro-Dynamics, 1889."
In 1860-61 Dr. Watson's University appointed him Moderator and Examiner for the Mathematical Tripos, and he was an additional examiner in 1877. He was nominated by the Senate of the University as its representative Governor on King Edward's Foundation, Birmingham. For three years he held the office of bailiff of the school. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1881.
An ardent mountaineer, he was one of the original founders of the Alpine Club.
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