Henry William Watson
1827–1903
Mathematician and clergyman. Educated at King’s College, London, and Cambridge University. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1851; assistant tutor, 1851–3. Mathematics master at the City of London School, 1854. Mathematical lecturer, King’s College, London, 1857. Ordained priest, 1858. Mathematics master, Harrow School, 1857–65. A founder of the Alpine Club, 1857. Incumbent of the parish of Berkswell, near Coventry, 1865–1902. Published on mathematics and the kinetic theory of gases. A founder of the Birmingham Philosophical Society and president, 1880–1. FRS 1881.
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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.
