West, John ♂

Education

Student United College 1769-1773 b, s, t, m. (Ternar). Yeaman bursar, 1770. Chancellor’s prize, Mathematics 1,1771, Mathematics 2, 1772, Natural Philosophy, 1773.

Student St Mary’s College 1773-1778. Alexander bursar, 1773. Alexander Yeaman bursar, 1777. 4th class prize, 1778.

Birth/childhood

Born 10.4.1756 son of Samuel West, Minister at Logie and Margaret Mein.

Career

Assistant to Professor Vilant 1775-1784. Emigrated to Jamaica 1785. Rector Morant Bay parish, Jamaica for 28 years. [Minister]

Publications. Mathematician.

Death

Died 17.10.1817.

Sources

• UYUC400:15.5.1770, 4.4.1771, 4.4.1772, 6.4.1773
• UYSM400/1/321, 2/99, 104
• Memoir by E. Sang in J. West, Mathematical treatises, 1838
• Fulham papers, American, Lambeth Palace 21.316
• A. D. D. Craik in Historia Mathematica 25(1) 29 - 74,Feb., 1998