John Philips Higman

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John Philips Higman FRS (1793, Kingsbridge, Devonshire – 7 August 1855, Cambridge Terrace, Hyde Park, London) was an Anglican rector and mathematician. [1]

At age 19, Higman matriculated on 2 June 1812 at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. (3rd Wrangler) in 1816 and M.A. in 1819. In 1818, he was a Fellow of Trinity College and from 1822 to 1834 he was a tutor there. [1] The students he tutored included Augustus De Morgan [2] and John Grote. [3] On 23 May 1820 Higman was elected F.R.S. On 28 October 1821 he was ordained an Anglican priest (at Ely). [1] In 1823 he gave the Rede Lecture in Philosophy. [4] From 1834 to 1855, he was Rector of the Anglican Parish of Fakenham, Norfolk. [1]

On 28 March 1837, he married Anastasia Read (born 1818).

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Higman, John Philips (HGMN812JP)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. De Morgan, Sophia Elizabeth (1882). Memoir of Augustus De Morgan. London: Longmans, Green, & Co. p. 12.
  3. Demetriou, K. N., ed. (2014). Brill's Companion to George Grote and the Classical Tradition. BRILL. p. 109. ISBN   9789004280496.
  4. Sir Robert Rede's Lectures (and Mathematical Lecturers), venn.lib.cam.ac.uk