John Leslie
1766–1832
Mathematician and natural philosopher. Studied at Edinburgh University, 1785–8. Private tutor at Etruria, Staffordshire, to Thomas Wedgwood (1771–1805, son of Josiah Wedgwood I), a fellow student at Edinburgh, 1790–2; Wedgwood settled an annuity on him in 1797. Professor of mathematics, Edinburgh University, 1805; professor of natural philosophy, 1819.
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DSB
ODNB
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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