| Authorised form of name | Ferrers; Norman Macleod (1829 - 1903) |
| Dates | 1829 - 1903 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Prinknash Park, Gloucestershire, England |
| Date of birth | 11 August 1829 |
| Place of death | Caius College Lodge, Cambridge |
| Date of death | 31/01/1903 |
| Occupation | Clergyman, Church of England |
| Research field | Mathematics |
| Activity | Education:
Eton; Caius College, Cambridge. BA (1851), MA, DD (1881)
Career:
Fellow (1854) and Tutor, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; ordained deacon (1859); ordained priest (1861); Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (1880); crippled by rheumatoid arthritis
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 07/06/1877 |
| Relationships | Son of Thomas Bromfield Ferrers, stock brocker, of London and his wife Lavinia, daughter of Alexander Macleod of Harris; married (1866) Emily, daughter of John Lamb, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 273-276 signed by E J R |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/71473943 |
| Code | NA3589 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1877/06 | Ferrers, Norman Macleod: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/4/919 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Reverend Dr Norman Macleod Ferrers, Fellow of the Royal Society | 28 November 1890 |
| NLB/6/358 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Reverened Dr Norman Macleod Ferrers, Fellow of the Royal Society | 25 April 1892 |
| NLB/6/849 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Reverend Dr Norman Macleod Ferrers, Fellow of the Royal Society | 22 July 1892 |
| NLB/12/853 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Turner, to Rev Dr Norman MacLeod Ferrers, Fellow of the Royal Society | 18 May 1896 |
| NLB/12/111 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], [Royal Society] | 9 December 1895 |
| RR/9/68 | Referee's report by Norman Macleod Ferrers, on a paper 'On a class of invariants' by John Christian Malet | 22 February 1882 |
| RR/8/175 | Referee's report by Norman Macleod Ferrers, on a paper 'On the conduction of heat in ellipsoids of revolution' by William Davidson Niven | 23 July 1879 |
| RR/10/247 | Referee's report by Norman Macleod Ferrers, on a paper 'The waves on a rotating liquid spheroid of finite ellipticity' by George Hartley Bryan | 30 December 1888 |
| RR/13/75 | Letter from Norman Macleod Ferrers, on a paper 'Octonions' by Alex McAulay to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 28 April 1896 |
| RR/13/73 | Letter from Norman Macleod Ferrers, on a paper 'Octonions' by Alex McAulay to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 25 March 1896 |
| RR/6/123 | Referee's report by Arthur Cayley, on a paper 'Note on Professor Sylvester’s representation of the motion of a free rigid body by that of a material ellipsoid whose centre is fixed, and which rolls on a rough plane' by Norman Macleod Ferrers | 14 July 1869 |
| RR/10/365 | Referee's report by Norman Macleod Ferrers, on a paper 'On ellipsoidal harmonics' by William Davidson Niven | 2 December 1890 |
| RR/13/74 | Letter from Richard Wright on behalf of the Secretary to the Master of Peterhouse College, Cambridge, Norman Macleod Ferrers on a paper 'Octonions' by Alex McAulay to the Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge | 27 April 1896 |
| MC/11/72 | Letter from N M [Norman Macleod] Ferrers, Brookside, Cambridge, to the Royal Society | 9 June 1877 |
| MC/11 | Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1877-1879 |
| RR/6/124 | Referee's report by James Clerk Maxwell, on a paper 'Note on Professor Sylvester’s representation of the motion of a free rigid body by that of a material ellipsoid whose centre is fixed, and which rolls on a rough plane' by Norman Macleod Ferrers | 14 August 1869 |