Thomas Oliver Harding
Engraving of Thomas Oliver Harding, senior wrangler in 1873
As Senior Wrangler, 1873
Born5 January 1850
Watford,[1] England
Died1896
Known forSenior Wrangler at Cambridge University

Thomas Oliver Harding (born 5 January 1850) was Senior Wrangler at Cambridge University in 1873.

Harding was the son of the Reverend Thomas Harding, a Wesleyan minister, of Whitehaven.[2] 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.[3] 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.[3]

Harding (right of back row) in 1873, the year he became Senior Wrangler; Shakespeare Society, Trinity College, Cambridge

Harding was elected to the Cambridge Apostles in 1872, and as an undergraduate was a keen oarsman and swimmer.[4] After graduation he became a schoolmaster at Marlborough College,[3] and (according to one source) a barrister.[5]

He died in 1896.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "List of Honours at the Bachelor of Arts Commencement, January 25, 1873". The Cambridge Chronicle and University Journal. 25 January 1873. p. 8.
  2. ↑ "Bradford". Leeds Times. 25 January 1873. p. 5.
  3. 1 2 3 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.
  4. ↑ Warwick, Andrew (2003). Masters of Theory: Cambridge and the Rise of Mathematical Physics. University of Chicago Press. p. 198.
  5. 1 2 Lubenow, WC (1998). The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 419. ISBN 9780521572132.
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