Ivory, James ♂
Education
Student United College 1779-1783 b,s,t,m. (Ternar). Guild bursar, 1779. Chancellor’s prize, Public Greek class, 1780; Math. 2, 1782; N. Phil. 1783.
Student St Mary’s College 1783-1785.
Birth/childhood
Born 1765 son of James Ivory, watchmaker, Dundee and Jane Brown, his first wife.
Career
Also at Edinburgh University.
Taught in Dundee 1786-1789, then partner in a spinning company till about 1804. Professor of Mathematics, Sandhurst 1804-1716 (resigned). F.R.S.E. 1835. [Teacher, university professor]
Publications
On the attractions of homogeneous ellipsoids, by James Ivory. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 99, January 1, 1809, pp. 345-372.
Death
Died 21.9.1842. See also: James Ivory (mathematician) in Wikipedia; also Sir James Ivory in the MacTutor archive.
Sources
- UYUC400:12.4.1780, 10.4.1782, 17.4.1783
- Dundee Town Council minute 26.10.1779
- DNB
- Gentleman's Magazine 1843 i 537
- A. D. D. Craik