| Authorised form of name | Mather; Thomas (1856 - 1937); engineer |
| Dates | 1856 - 1937 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Higher Walton, near Preston, England |
| Date of birth | 15 December 1856 |
| Date of death | 23/06/1937 |
| Occupation | Engineer |
| Research field | Engineering |
| Activity | Educatin:
Local church school; St. Paul’s School, Preston; Owens College (1878-1881); Royal College of Science, South Kensington (1881-2)
Career:
Apprenticed to an engineering firm at Higher Walton; apprenticed to Messrs. Calyton & Sons, engineers, and boilermakers of Preston (1875-78); attended evening classes at St. Paul’s School, Preston; various scholarships enabled him to pursue engineering courses and qualifications; assistant to Professor William Edward Ayrton (FRS 1881) at the start of the technical teaching work financed by the City and Guilds of London Institute; followed Professor Ayrton from the College at Finsbury to the one at South Kensington, now part of Imperial College; on the death of Ayrton, he was appointed acting Professor Electrical Engineering (1908) later made full Professor (1910); retired with the title of Emeritus Professor (1922).
Memberships:
Physical Society
Institution of Electrical Engineers
Fellow of the City and Guilds of London Institute |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 05/06/1902 |
| Age at election | 46 |
| Proposer | Henry Edward Armstrong; Stephen Joseph Perry; John Viriamu Jones; James Alfred Ewing; Shelford Bidwell; Charles Vernon Boys; Oliver Joseph Lodge; Silvanus Phillips Thompson; William Edward Ayrton; George Carey Foster; George Francis Fitzgerald |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1936-1938 vol 2 pp 381-384, plate, by W E Sumpner |
| Royal Society code | NA1288 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| RR/17/118 | Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'A new current weigher and a determination of the electromotive force of the normal Weston cadmium cell' by William Edward Ayrton, Thomas Mather and Frank Edward Smith | [June 1907] |
| RR/17/119 | Referee's report by Andrew Gray, on a paper 'A new current weigher and a determination of the electromotive force of the normal Weston cadmium cell' by William Edward Ayrton, Thomas Mather and Frank Edward Smith | 18 July 1907 |
| NLB/37/462 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to T [Thomas] Mather, Fellow of the Royal Society | 24 March 1908 |
| NLB/24/621 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Thomas Mather, Fellow of the Royal Society | 9 June 1902 |
| NLB/36/567 | Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Mr [Thomas] Mather, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 14 November 1907 |
| NLB/36/515 | Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Thomas Mather, Fellow of the Royal Society | 7 November 1907 |
| NLB/38/35 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Thomas Mather, Fellow of the Royal Society | 4 June 1908 |
| NLB/37/569 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to T [Thomas] Mather, Fellow of the Royal Society | 7 April 1908 |
| NLB/37/476 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to A P Trotter, The Board of Trade | 25 March 1908 |
| NLB/37/439 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor [Joseph] Larmor, Secretary of the Royal Society | 20 March 1908 |
| NLB/37/555 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to T [Thomas] Mather, Fellow of the Royal Society | 4 April 1908 |
| NLB/50/681 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Thomas] Mather, Fellow of the Royal Society | 12 October 1914 |
| RR/17/218 | Referee's report by William Cecil Dampier Whetham, on a paper 'The silver voltameter' by Frank Edward Smith, Thomas Mather and Thomas Martin Lowry | [August 1907] |
| NLB/55/122 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Thomas] Mather, FRS | 08 December 1917 |
| RR/17/217 | Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'The silver voltameter' by Frank Edward Smith, Thomas Mather and Thomas Martin Lowry | [August 1907] |
| NLB/54/902 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Thomas] Mather, FRS | 3 November 1917 |
| RR/22/94 | Referee's report by Thomas Mather, on a paper 'Some experiments on the properties of dielectrics' by Spencer W Richardson | 1915 |
| NLB/55/60 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Thomas] Mather, FRS | 20 November 1917 |
| RR/22/80 | Referee's report by Thomas Mather, on a paper 'The magnetic behaviour of iron at very high frequencies' by N W McLachlan | December 1915 |
| NLB/29/707 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Thomas Mather, Fellow of the Royal Society | 28 November 1904 |
| NLB/35/641 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Thomas Mather, Fellow of the Royal Society | 24 June 1907 |
| RR/20/120 | Referee's report by Thomas Mather, on a paper 'A determination of the electromotive force of the weston normal cell in semi-absolute volts' by A N Shaw | December 1913 |
| RR/21/16 | Referee's report by Thomas Mather, on a paper 'On the flow of electricity through dielectrics, etc' by G E Bairsto | 1 July 1914 |
| EC/1902/11 | Mather, Thomas: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/37/452 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to T Mather, Fellow of the Royal Society | 23 March 1908 |
| NLB/71/733 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Editor, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 80 Regents Street, W1 | 17 October 1928 |
| AP/79/14 | Unpublished paper, 'The evolution of our galactic system' by A W [Alexander William] Bickerton | 1917 |
| RR/21/17 | Committee report by Thomas Mather, on a paper 'On the flow of electricity through dielectrics, etc' by G E Bairsto | 12 October 1914 |
| MC/19/605 | Letter from [Thomas] Mather, Ajax Road, West Hampstead, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 5 November 1904 |
| MC/19 | Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1904 |
| MC/22/234 | Letter from Thomas Mather, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 24 June 1907 |