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In 1889 he was one of the shareholders in Silver's factory in [[Silvertown]], [[East London]], an immensely profitable rubber company. That year saw a major strike by Silver's workers for higher pay but after 12 weeks the strikers were forced back to work by hunger. Bartholomew Price was the shareholder who moved the motion of thanks in the Managing Director at the shareholders meeting in February 1890.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Tully|first1=John|title=Silvertown: The Lost Story of a Strike that Shook London and Helped Launch the Modern Labor Movement|date=2014|publisher=Monthly Review Press|location=New York|isbn=9781907103995}}</ref> |
In 1889 he was one of the shareholders in Silver's factory in [[Silvertown]], [[East London]], an immensely profitable rubber company. That year saw a major strike by Silver's workers for higher pay but after 12 weeks the strikers were forced back to work by hunger. Bartholomew Price was the shareholder who moved the motion of thanks in the Managing Director at the shareholders meeting in February 1890.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Tully|first1=John|title=Silvertown: The Lost Story of a Strike that Shook London and Helped Launch the Modern Labor Movement|date=2014|publisher=Monthly Review Press|location=New York|isbn=9781907103995}}</ref> |
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He was on the governing body of [[Abingdon School]] from c. |
He was on the governing body of [[Abingdon School]] from c.1887 until his death in December 1898.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.abingdon.org.uk/uploads/school/files/abingdonian/1899_April_V002_N013.pdf#page=11|title=School Notes|publisher=The Abingdonian}}</ref> |
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He died in December 1898 with the title of Reverend and was buried in [[Holywell Cemetery]], [[Oxford]].<ref>Monthly Notices, [[Royal Astronomical Society]] (1899).</ref> |
He died in December 1898 with the title of Reverend and was buried in [[Holywell Cemetery]], [[Oxford]].<ref>Monthly Notices, [[Royal Astronomical Society]] (1899).</ref> |
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Reverend Bartholomew Price (1818 – 29 December 1898) was an English mathematician, clergyman and educator.
Life
He was born at Coln St Denis, Gloucestershire, in 1818. He was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, of which college (after taking a first class in mathematics in 1840 and gaining the university mathematical scholarship in 1842) he became fellow in 1844 and tutor and mathematical lecturer in 1845. He at once took a leading position in the mathematical teaching of the university, and published treatises on the Differential calculus (in 1848) and the Infinitesimal calculus (4 vols., 1852–1860), which for long were the recognized textbooks there. This latter work included the differential and integral calculus, the calculus of variations, the theory of attractions, and analytical mechanics.[1]
In 1853, he was appointed Sedleian professor of natural philosophy, resigning it in June 1898. His chief public activity at Oxford was in connection with the Hebdomadal Council, and with the Clarendon Press, of which he was for many years secretary. He was also a curator of the Bodleian Library, an honorary fellow of the Queen's College, a governor of Winchester College and a visitor of Greenwich Observatory. In 1891, he was elected Master of Pembroke College, which dignity carried with it a canonry of Gloucester Cathedral.[1] He also seems to have donated an interesting astronomical clock to Gloucester cathedral.
In 1889 he was one of the shareholders in Silver's factory in Silvertown, East London, an immensely profitable rubber company. That year saw a major strike by Silver's workers for higher pay but after 12 weeks the strikers were forced back to work by hunger. Bartholomew Price was the shareholder who moved the motion of thanks in the Managing Director at the shareholders meeting in February 1890.[2]
He was on the governing body of Abingdon School from c.1887 until his death in December 1898.[3]
He died in December 1898 with the title of Reverend and was buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford.[4]
Nowadays, Professor Price is best remembered as one of the teachers of Lewis Carroll. There is a reference to his nickname of 'the bat' in the Mad Hatter's song "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat", a parody of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Writings
- An essay on the relation of the several parts of a mathematical science to the fundamental idea therein contained (1849)
- A Treatise on Infinitesimal Calculus v. 1: Differential calculus (1857)
- A Treatise on Infinitesimal Calculus v. 2. Integral calculus and calculus of variations
- A Treatise on Infinitesimal Calculus v. 3. Statics attractions, dynamics of material particle
- A Treatise on Infinitesimal Calculus v. 4: The dynamics of material systems (1862)
References
- ^ a b One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Price, Bartholomew". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 313–314.
- ^ Tully, John (2014). Silvertown: The Lost Story of a Strike that Shook London and Helped Launch the Modern Labor Movement. New York: Monthly Review Press. ISBN 9781907103995.
- ^ "School Notes" (PDF). The Abingdonian.
- ^ Monthly Notices, Royal Astronomical Society (1899).
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- People from Cotswold District
- 19th-century English mathematicians
- Fellows of the Royal Society
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- Fellows of Pembroke College, Oxford
- Masters of Pembroke College, Oxford
- Sedleian Professors of Natural Philosophy
- Lewis Carroll
- Governors of Abingdon School
- Burials at Holywell Cemetery