Thomas Oliver Harding (5 January 1850 – 17 October 1896)[2] was Senior Wrangler at Cambridge University in 1873.
Thomas Oliver Harding | |
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 As Senior Wrangler, 1873 | |
| Born | 5 January 1850 |
| Died | 17 October 1896 (aged 46) |
| Known for | Senior Wrangler at Cambridge University |
Harding was the son of the Reverend Thomas Harding, a Wesleyan minister, of Whitehaven.[3] He received his early education at Kingswood Wesleyan School near Bath,[1] followed by studies at King's College, London, and then at Trinity College, Cambridge where he took the Mathematical Tripos.[4] The College awarded him the senior mathematical minor scholarship, and elected him to a foundation scholarship in 1871.[1] He was a first-class prizeman in 1870, 1871 and 1872, graduating as Senior Wrangler in 1873[1] and receiving his MA in 1876.[4]
Harding was elected to the Cambridge Apostles in 1872, and as an undergraduate was a keen oarsman and swimmer.[5] He was also elected President of the Cambridge Union.[2] After graduation he became a schoolmaster at Marlborough College,[4] and (according to one source) a barrister.[6]
He died in 1896.[6]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "List of Honours at the Bachelor of Arts Commencement, January 25, 1873". The Cambridge Chronicle and University Journal. 25 January 1873. p. 8.
- ^ a b "Harding, Thomas Olver (HRDN869TO)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "Bradford". Leeds Times. 25 January 1873. p. 5.
- ^ a b c Neale, CM (1907). The Senior Wranglers of the University of Cambridge, from 1748 to 1907. Bury St Edmund's: FT Groom and Son. p. 45.
- ^ Warwick, Andrew (2003). Masters of Theory: Cambridge and the Rise of Mathematical Physics. University of Chicago Press. p. 198.
- ^ a b Lubenow, WC (1998). The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 419. ISBN 9780521572132.