Potts, Robert, 1805-1885 (classicist and mathematician)
Dates
- Existence: 1805 - 1885
Biography
Robert Potts (1805-85) classicist and mathematician, was born in Lambeth, London. He was educated privately in Kent, entered Trinity College, Cambridge, on 27 June 1827 as a sizar, and graduated BA as twenty-sixth wrangler in 1832, proceeding MA in 1835. He acquired a wide reputation as the editor of Euclid's Elements, which he brought out in a large edition in 1845, followed in 1847 by an appendix. He also published Elementary Arithmetic (1876) and Elementary Algebra (1879), both with brief historical notes. He died at his home, Park Terrace, Parker's Piece, Cambridge, on 4 August 1885.
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Correspondence of Robert Potts
The letters relate to two contested elections at Cambridge in 1847, the first for the chancellorship of the university, in which Prince Albert (supported by Potts and many other reformers) defeated the conservative Earl of Powis; and the second for the university seats in the general election, at which the sitting members, Henry Goulburn and C.E. Law, survived challenges from Viscount Feilding and J.G. Shaw-Lefevre.
Robert Potts: Copy letter to E.H. Bunbury, 1859
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Robert Potts: Correspondence to Edward Atkinson, 1865-1877
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