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James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

1848–1928

Mathematician. Son of James Glaisher. Second wrangler in the mathematical tripos, Cambridge University, 1871; fellow, lecturer, and assistant tutor of Trinity College from 1871. Member of many societies; wrote papers on astronomy, mathematics, and history of mathematics. Later interested in ceramics. FRS 1875.

Source

ODNB.

Bibliography

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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