Henry William Watson

Rev. Henry William Watson FRS (25 February 1827, Marylebone, London – 11 January 1903, Berkswell near Coventry) was a mathematician and author of a number of mathematics books. He was an ordained priest and Cambridge Apostle.

Life

He was born at Marylebone on 25 Feb. 1827. He was the son of Thomas Watson, R.N., and Eleanor Mary Kingston.[1]

He was educated at King's College London and at Trinity College, Cambridge.[2] He graduated as second wrangler and Smith's prizeman in 1850, Dr. W. H. Besant being senior wrangler. He became fellow in 1851, and from 1851 to 1853 was assistant tutor. Watson formed a close friendship with James Fitzjames Stephen, who entered Trinity in 1847.[1]

He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1881. He and Francis Galton introduced the Galton–Watson process in 1875.

Books by H. W. Watson

The mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism (Volume 1: electrostatics) (Clarendon, Oxford, 1885–1889)
The mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism (Volume 2: magnetism & electrodynamics) (Clarendon, Oxford, 1885–1889)
A treatise on the application of generalised coordinates to the kinetics of a material system (Clarendon, Oxford, 1879)
A treatise on the kinetic theory of gases (Clarendon, Oxford, 1893)

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: James, T. E. (1912). "Watson, Henry William". Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
"Watson, Henry William (WT846HW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

External links

O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Henry William Watson", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
James, T. E.; Tompson, Julia. "Watson, Henry William (1827–1903)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36770. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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[dnb-1] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: James, T. E. (1912). "Watson, Henry William". Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[2] "Watson, Henry William (WT846HW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.