James Devereux Hustler facts for kids

James Devereux ... (1784–1849) was an English cleric and academic. He was a mathematician, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1819.

Early life

..... He was educated at the King Edward VI Free School, Bury St Edmunds, under the Rev. Michael Becher. Charles Blomfield, who shared his background and education, and became Bishop of London, was a good friend.

... matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1801, moving to Trinity College in 1802. He was third Wrangler in 1806, after Frederick Pollock and Henry Walter, graduating B.A. He became a Fellow of Trinity in 1807.

..... Henry Gage, 4th Viscount Gage entered Trinity College in 1811, and graduated M.A. in 1812; he went on to write some mathematical works. .....

Trinity tutor

... was an assistant tutor at Trinity 1811–1813, and then tutor 1813–1823. His period as a tutor overlapped with the years 1815–1825 that have been dubbed the "analytical revolution" at Cambridge. In the teaching and examining of the infinitesimal calculus, the notations and ideas of Gottfried Leibniz were introduced, alongside those traditionally taught of Isaac Newton.

..... Airy had been taught by a master at his school in Colchester, Thomas Rogers (1789–1860), a graduate from Sidney Sussex College in 1811, covering the university topics to fluxions and the Principia. .....

Peacock then gave Airy special teaching in the contemporary calculus methods, and Airy responded by working over results of Samuel Vince and Robert Woodhouse.

..... There was resistance from the more senior students. The accelerated group was then taught separately, by Peacock.

Later life

...'s clerical career began in 1823, when he was a curate at Fornham All Saints. In 1828 the Duke of Grafton presented him to the rectory of Great Fakenham, and in 1829 to the living of Euston, Suffolk.

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Works

• The Elements of Conic Sections: with the sections of conoids (1st edition 1818, 2nd edition 1820, 3rd edition 1826), anonymous. .....
• A Sermon preached [...] the first Sunday after the funeral of [...] George Henry Duke of Grafton (1844)
• Unity in the Church: A Sermon Preached at Ixworth on Monday, May 21st, 1849 (1849)

Family

... married Elizabeth Mansel, daughter of William Lort Mansel, in 1823. Of their children:

• Elizabeth Juliana, married in 1855 James Robertson Bryant of Pembroke as his second wife.
• Augusta Frederica, the youngest daughter, married in 1856 the Rev. Owen Jones. In 1888 their daughter Elizabeth Frederica Isabella Owen married the Rev. William Howard Coates, son of William Henry Coates and his wife Elizabeth Youatt.

Portraits of their children were painted in 1833 by Samuel Lane.