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Authorised form of nameDixon; Alfred Cardew (1865 - 1936)
Dates1865 - 1936
NationalityBritish
Place of birthNorthallerton, Yorkshire, England
Date of birth22 May 1865
Place of deathHis home, 'Malone', St Mary's Avenue, Northwood, Middlesex
Date of death04/05/1936
Dates and placesBurial:
Oaklands Gate Methodist Church
ActivityEducation:
Kingswood School, Bath; Trinity College, Cambridge. BA (1886, Senior Wrangler); ScD (1897); MA (Lond)
Career:
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; Professor of Mathematics, Queen's College, Galway (1893-1901); Professor of Mathematics, Queen's University, Belfast (1901-1930)
Memberships:
FCPS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election05/05/1904
RelationshipsSon of Rev G T Dixon, Wesleyan minister; married (1895) Gertrude Lascelles, daughter of Joseph Smallpage of Brierfield, Burnley (died 1926); no children
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1936-1938 vol 2 pp 165-174, plate, by E T Whittaker
Royal Society codeNA1178
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
IM/Maull/001164Dixon, Alfred Cardewnd
NLB/10/8Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Professor Alfred Cardew Dixon18 August 1894
NLB/10/275Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred Cardew Dixon, Queen's College, Galway5 November 1894
NLB/20/161Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor Alfred Cardew Dixon, Queen's College, Galway16 February 1900
NLB/18/320Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor A C Dixon22 February 1899
NLB/19/439Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Micaiah John Muller Hill, Fellow of the Royal Society3 October 1899
NLB/19/623Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor Alfred Cardew Dixon, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Queen's College, Galway9 November 1899
NLB/19/809Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Micaiah John Muller Hill, Fellow of the Royal Society, Lake View, Northwood, near Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire1 January 1900
NLB/19/805Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Micaiah John Muller Hill, Fellow of the Royal Society22 December 1899
NLB/20/184Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred Cardew Dixon, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Queen's College, Galway19 February 1900
NLB/20/226Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor Alfred Cardew Dixon, [Fellow of the Royal Society]28 February 1900
NLB/20/668Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor Alfred Cardew Dixon, Queen's College, Galway14 June 1900
NLB/20/403Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Micaiah John Muller Hill, Fellow of the Royal Society6 April 1900
NLB/20/433Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Andrew Russell Forsyth, Fellow of the Royal Society25 April 1900
NLB/37/423Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor A [Alfred] C [Cardew] Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society17 March 1908
RR/18/124Referee's report by Ernest William Hobson, on a paper 'On harmonic expansions' by Alfred Cardew DixonJuly 1911
RR/18/192Referee's report by Alfred Cardew Dixon, on a paper 'On a class of parametric integrals and their application in the theory of fourier series' by W H YoungMay 1911
RR/18/60Referee's report by Alfred Cardew Dixon, on a paper 'Memoir on the theory of the partitions of numbers. —Part V. Partitions in two-dimensional space' by Percy Alexander MacMahonDecember 1910
RR/17/319Referee's report by Alfred Cardew Dixon, on a paper 'Memoir on the theory of the partition of numbers, part IV' by Percy Alexander MacMahonAugust 1908
RR/18/64Referee's report by Alfred Cardew Dixon, on a paper 'Sturm-Liouville series of normal functions in the theory of integral equations' by James MercerMay 1910
RR/14/37Letter from Andrew Russell Forsyth, to Arthur William Rucker, regarding a paper 'Contributions to the theory of simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixon24 January 1899
RR/14/144Minute of the Mathematics Committee, on a paper 'On simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixon12 October 1899
RR/18/125Referee's report by Thomas John l'Anson Bromwich, on a paper 'On harmonic expansions' by Alfred Cardew DixonJuly 1911
RR/14/148Second referee's report by Andrew Russell Forsyth, on a paper 'On simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixonnd [1900]
RR/14/142Referee's report by Andrew Russell Forsyth, on a paper 'On simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixon2 October 1899
RR/14/150Third referee's report by Andrew Russell Forsyth, on a paper 'On simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixon27 April 1900
RR/22/4Referee's report by Alfred Cardew Dixon, on a paper 'On certain linear differential equations of astronomical interest' by Henry Frederick BakerAugust 1915
RR/51/147Second referee's report by Alfred Cardew Dixon, on a paper 'On approximation by polygons in the calculus of variations' by L C Young[May 1933]
RR/50/38Referee's report by Alfred Cardew Dixon, on a paper 'Group characters and algebra' by D E Littlewood and Archibald Read RichardsonSeptember 1933
RR/12/88Letter from Alfred Cardew Dixon, regarding a paper 'On the singular solutions of simultaneous ordinary differential equations and the theory of congruencies' by Alfred Cardew Dixon6 November 1894
RR/12/86Detailed referee's report by Micaiah John Muller Hill, on a paper 'On the singular solutions of simultaneous ordinary differential equations and the theory of congruencies' by Alfred Cardew Dixonnd [1894]
RR/12/84Letter from Micaiah John Muller Hill, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the singular solutions of simultaneous ordinary differential equations and the theory of congruencies' by Alfred Cardew Dixon7 August 1894
NLB/18/391Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor A C Dixon, Queen's College, Galway3 March 1899
NLB/20/246Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred Cardew Dixon, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Queen's College, Galway6 March 1900
EC/1904/03Dixon, Alfred Cardew: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/41/38Referee's report by Alfred Cardew Dixon, on a paper 'Commutative ordinary differential operators. II.—The identity Pn = Qm' by J L Burchnall and T W ChaundyOctober 1930
RR/12/87Second letter from Micaiah John Muller Hill, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the singular solutions of simultaneous ordinary differential equations and the theory of congruencies' by Alfred Cardew Dixon17 August 1894
RR/14/39Letter from Andrew Russell Forsyth, to Mr Harrison, regarding a paper 'Contributions to the theory of simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixon1 May 1899
RR/14/140Referee's report by Micaiah John Muller Hill, on a paper 'On simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixon27 July 1899
IM/001165Dixon, Alfred Cardewnd
RR/12/83Referee's report by Andrew Russell Forsyth, on a paper 'On the singular solutions of simultaneous ordinary differential equations and the theory of congruencies' by Alfred Cardew Dixon17 July 1894
RR/14/34Referee's report by Andrew Russell Forsyth, on a paper 'Contributions to the theory of simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixon6 January 1899
RR/14/35Letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Andrew Russell Forsyth, regarding a paper 'Contributions to the theory of simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixon10 January 1899
RR/14/141Detailed referee's report by Micaiah John Muller Hill, on a paper 'On simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixon26 July 1899
RR/14/145Letter from Alfred Cardew Dixon, regarding a paper 'On simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixon5 December 1899
RR/14/139Letter from Micaiah John Muller Hill, regarding a paper 'On simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixon27 July 1899
RR/14/33Referee's report by Micaiah John Muller Hill, on a paper 'Contributions to the theory of simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixon[January 1899]
AP/74/2Unpublished paper, 'Contributions to the theory of simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixon1898
PP/18/20Paper, 'On a differential electrostatic method of measuring high electrical resistances' by [Philip] Cardew[1891-1892]
RR/12/85Referee's report by Micaiah John Muller Hill, on a paper 'On the singular solutions of simultaneous ordinary differential equations and the theory of congruencies' by Alfred Cardew Dixon7 August 1894
RR/14/149Third referee's report by Micaiah John Muller Hill, on a paper 'On simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixon10 April 1900
RR/14/147Memorandum by Andrew Russell Forsyth, on a paper 'On simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixon10 January 1900
RR/14/36Mathematics Committee report, regarding a paper 'Contributions to the theory of simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixon16 January 1899
RR/14/38Letter from Micaiah John Muller Hill, to Arthur William Rucker, regarding a paper 'Contributions to the theory of simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixon25 January 1899
RR/14/143Detailed referee's report by Andrew Russell Forsyth, on a paper 'On simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixon2 October 1899
RR/14/146Second referee's report by Micaiah John Muller Hill, on a paper 'On simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixon3 January 1900
RR/51/148Referee's report by Alfred Cardew Dixon, on a paper 'On approximation by polygons in the calculus of variations' by L C Young[April 1933]
NLB/18/368Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Forsyth, Fellow of the Royal Society28 February 1899
MC/19/588Letter from [Hector Munro] Macdonald, Clare College, Cambridge, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison19 January 1904
MC/17Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1897-1899
MC/19Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1904
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