Bewick Bridge
Bewick Bridge (1767, Linton, Cambridgeshire – 15 May 1833, Cherry Hinton) was an English vicar and mathematical author.[1]
In 1786, he was admitted as a sizar to study mathematics at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he graduated as senior wrangler and won the Smith's Prize in 1790.[2][3]
In October 1790, he was ordained a deacon at Ely, and became a priest in 1792; in the same year he became a Fellow at Peterhouse, during which he spent time as both as college moderator and as proctor.[2] From 1806 until 1816, he was Professor of Mathematics at the East India Company College, Haileybury.[2] He wrote a number of mathematical texts:[3] his Algebra achieved international circulation.[4] He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.[2]
From 1816 until 1833, he was vicar of Cherry Hinton in Cambridge, where in 1818 he built the vicarage, and he founded the village school in 1832 (now a Church of England PrimarySchool).[2] He died on 15 May 1833, aged 66.[2][3][5] In September 2011 the Cherry Hinton Community Junior School was named after Bewick, becoming Bewick Bridge Community Primary School.[6]
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- 1767 births
- 1833 deaths
- People from Linton, Cambridgeshire
- Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge
- Fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- 19th-century English mathematicians
- Senior Wranglers
- 18th-century English Anglican priests
- 19th-century English Anglican priests
- People from Cherry Hinton
- British mathematician stubs