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James Booth
Times obituary
The scientific world has sustained a loss by the decease of the Rev. James Booth, LL.D., F.R.S., vicar of Stone, near Aylesbury, which, as recorded in our obituary column yesterday, occurred on Monday last, at the age of 71.
The eldest son of the late Mr. John Booth, he was born in the year 1814, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he obtained several prizes and graduated in honours. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1846, to a very great extent in recognition of his earliest publication, "A New Method of Tangential Co-ordinates," and also as the inventor of a new system of parabolic trigonometry. In 1852 and 1853 he contributed to the Philosophical Transactions" two memoirs on "The Geometrical Froperties of Elliptic Integrals." He was also known as the contributor of several papers on mathematical subjects to the "Philosophical Magazine;" and not a few of these, we believe, have found their way into other languages. As far hack as the year 1846, he published a pamphlet advocating those principles of competitive examination which are now established in almost every department of the Civil Service. In 1856, as Chairman of the Society of Arts, he gave a practical illustration of his views on this subject by esta-blishing examinations for candidates, which were carried out in London and Huddersfield, and were organized to some ex-tent for Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, and other centres of thought and action. In 1857 he annotated and edited, at the request of the Society of Arts, a volume of the "Speeches and Addresses of the late Prince Consort," which was republished in a cheaper form for the use of the skilled artisans and the middle classes. In 1859 he was presented to the living of Stone by the Royal Astronomical Society, to whom the advowson belongs; and he was subsequently placed in the Commission of the Peace for Buckinghamshire.
The scientific world has sustained a loss by the decease of the Rev. James Booth, LL.D., F.R.S., vicar of Stone, near Aylesbury, which, as recorded in our obituary column yesterday, occurred on Monday last, at the age of 71.
The eldest son of the late Mr. John Booth, he was born in the year 1814, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he obtained several prizes and graduated in honours. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1846, to a very great extent in recognition of his earliest publication, "A New Method of Tangential Co-ordinates," and also as the inventor of a new system of parabolic trigonometry. In 1852 and 1853 he contributed to the Philosophical Transactions" two memoirs on "The Geometrical Froperties of Elliptic Integrals." He was also known as the contributor of several papers on mathematical subjects to the "Philosophical Magazine;" and not a few of these, we believe, have found their way into other languages. As far hack as the year 1846, he published a pamphlet advocating those principles of competitive examination which are now established in almost every department of the Civil Service. In 1856, as Chairman of the Society of Arts, he gave a practical illustration of his views on this subject by esta-blishing examinations for candidates, which were carried out in London and Huddersfield, and were organized to some ex-tent for Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, and other centres of thought and action. In 1857 he annotated and edited, at the request of the Society of Arts, a volume of the "Speeches and Addresses of the late Prince Consort," which was republished in a cheaper form for the use of the skilled artisans and the middle classes. In 1859 he was presented to the living of Stone by the Royal Astronomical Society, to whom the advowson belongs; and he was subsequently placed in the Commission of the Peace for Buckinghamshire.
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