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Alfred Barnard Basset
Times obituary
The death is announced of Mr. Alfred Barnard Basset, a Fellow of the Royal Society and vice-president of the London Mathematical Society.
He was born on July 25, 1854, and educated privately at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read mathematics with the late Dr. W. H. Besant. In 1877, he was 13th Wrangler. Two years later, he was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn, having been in chambers with the late Lord Justice Rigby, who was then junior equity counsel for the Treasury. He practised, however, for only eight years, retiring in 1887 to give himself to the study of mathematics. He was elected F.R.S. in 1889. He was the author of several published works on mathematics and contributed numerous papers to mathematical periodicals.
He married Edith Sarah Irwin (who died in 1929), only child of the late Thomas Gustave de Chaundre, of Rouen and Dublin, and leaves a daughter.
The death is announced of Mr. Alfred Barnard Basset, a Fellow of the Royal Society and vice-president of the London Mathematical Society.
He was born on July 25, 1854, and educated privately at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read mathematics with the late Dr. W. H. Besant. In 1877, he was 13th Wrangler. Two years later, he was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn, having been in chambers with the late Lord Justice Rigby, who was then junior equity counsel for the Treasury. He practised, however, for only eight years, retiring in 1887 to give himself to the study of mathematics. He was elected F.R.S. in 1889. He was the author of several published works on mathematics and contributed numerous papers to mathematical periodicals.
He married Edith Sarah Irwin (who died in 1929), only child of the late Thomas Gustave de Chaundre, of Rouen and Dublin, and leaves a daughter.
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