NameWilliam J IBBETSON, 1678
Birth1861, Kroringa South Australia
EducationHaileybury and Clare College Cambridge
Notes for William J IBBETSON
From Venn’s
Ibbetson, William John.
Adm. at CLARE, 1879.
[Youngest s. of the Rev. Denzil J. H., of St John's, Adelaide, South Australia. B. Jan. 6, 1861, at Kroringa, South Australia.
School, Haileybury [ Hertfordshire].]
Matric. Michs. 1879;
Scholar, 1880;
(17th Wrangler, 1882);
B.A. 1883;
M.A. 1886.
An authority on the Romany language.
"He was a man of great ability, and his book on elasticity is most noteworthy when it is remembered that he had been totally deaf from the age of 16, and had acquired all his mathematics at such a terrible disadvantage."
Author, An Elementary Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Perfectly Elastic Solids, with a Short Account of Viscous Fluids, 1887.
F.R.A.S.
Resided at Eastern House, Cambridge [ Cambridgeshire].
Died Oct. 12, 1889.
(Haileybury Reg.; Proceedings of the London Math. Soc., XX. 425-6; Monthly Notices, Royal Astronom. Soc., LI. 194.)