| Authorised form of name | Graves; John Thomas (1806 - 1870) |
| Dates | 1806 - 1870 |
| Place of birth | Dublin, Ireland |
| Date of birth | 04 December 1806 |
| Place of death | Cheltenham, Gloucestershire |
| Date of death | 29 March 1870 |
| Occupation | Barrister |
| Research field | Mathematics |
| Activity | Education:
Trinity College, Dublin. BA (1827); MA (1831, Oxford)
Career:
Called to the English Bar (1831); Professor of Jurisprudence, University College, London (1839); Assistant Poor Law Commissioner (1846)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 18/04/1839 |
| Relationships | Son of John Crosbie Graves, barrister; cousin of Robert James Graves (FRS 1850); married (1846) daughter of William Tooke (FRS 1818); no children |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1870-1871 vol 19 pp xxvii-xxviii
References:
W H Brock, 'The Selection of the Authors of the Bridgewater Treatises' in NR 1966 vol 21 pp 162-179
Notes:
Proposers: 'Adare' is Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin , 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, then Viscount Adare |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/315945645 |
| Code | NA3372 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1839/21 | Graves, John Thomas: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/Maull/001745 | Graves, John Thomas | nd |
| RR/3/51 | Referee's report by John Thomas Graves, on a paper 'A memoir on curves of the third order' by Arthur Cayley | 31 January 1957 |
| RR/2/42 | Referee's report by John Thomas Graves, on a paper 'An introductory memoir upon quantics' by Arthur Cayley | 13 May 1854 |
| RR/3/245 | Referee's report by John Thomas Graves, on a paper 'On curves of the third order' by George Salmon | 21 July 1858 |
| MC/3 | Volume 3 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1839-1843 |
| MC/3/262 | Letter from John Booth, professor of mathematics, Collegiate Institution Liverpool, to Dr. John Thomas Graves, 8 Gray's Inn Square, Londn | 28 January 1843 |
| AP/25/16 | Unpublished paper, 'On the rectification and quadrature of the spherical ellipse' by James Booth | 1842 |