Trinity College, Cambridge in 1947 and held the Larmor lectureship of the Royal Irish Academy and the Herbert Spencer lectureship at the University of Oxford, both in 1948. See also List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1905 List of Cambridge mathematicians List of mathematicians born in the 19th century List of theoretical physicists References Bibliography Obituaries Whittaker Memorial Volume: Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, June 1958 Further reading External links 1873 births 1956 deaths Academics of the University of Edinburgh Academics of Trinity College Dublin Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Applied mathematicians British physicists British textbook writers Converts to Roman Catholicism De Morgan Medallists Directors of Dunsink Observatory English historians English Roman Catholics Fellows of the Royal Society Historians of physics Irish astronomers Knights Bachelor Mathematical physicists Members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences Numerical analysts People educated at Manchester Grammar School People from Southport Presidents of the London Mathematical Society Presidents of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Recipients of the Copley Medal Second Wranglers Theoretical physicists Writers about religion and science Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh