Joseph Proctor (academic)

Joseph Proctor (died 1845) was an academic of the University of Cambridge in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Proctor was born in Stow, Lincolnshire,[1] and educated at the Leeds Grammar School.[2] In 1783 he won a prize for being one of the two best mathematics students at the University of Cambridge.[3] He became a Doctor of Divinity, master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge from 1799 to 1845,[4] and prebendary of Norwich.[1] He served as vice chancellor of Cambridge in 1801,[5] and was elected vice-chancellor again in 1826.[6]

He died on 10 November 1845, at the age of 84.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 Peck, William R. (1813), A topographical history and description of Bawtry and Thorne, with the villages adjacent, p. 96 .
  2. ↑ Allen, Thomas (1831), A New and Complete History of the County of York, Volume 4, I. T. Hinton, p. 435 .
  3. ↑ "Articles of Intelligence from the Country", The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, p. 172, 1783 .
  4. ↑ Wright, Christopher, ed. (2006), British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections: An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Yale University Press, p. 168, ISBN 9780300117301 .
  5. ↑ "The Vice-Chancellor", A History of the University of Cambridge: Its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings, Volume 2, 1815, pp. 303–304 .
  6. ↑ "Proceedings of the University of Cambridge", The Quarterly Theological Review and Ecclesiastical Record, p. 273, 1826 .
  7. ↑ "Deaths", The Economist, p. 1132, 15 November 1845 .
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