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Authorised form of nameBurbury; Samuel Hawksley (1831 - 1911)
Dates1831 - 1911
NationalityBritish
Place of birthKenilworth, Warwickshire, England
Date of birth18 May 1831
Place of death15 Melbury Road, London
Date of death18/08/1911
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Kensal Green Cemetery
OccupationBarrister
ActivityEducation:
St John's College, Cambridge. BA (1854), MA (1857)
Career:
Called to the Bar (1858); left practice due to deafness; wrote in conjunction with his friend Henry William Watson (FRS 1881) on electricity, magnetism and mathematics
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election05/06/1890
RelationshipsOnly son of Samuel Burbury of Clarendon Square, Leamington, and his wife Helen; married (12 April 1860) Alice Ann, daughter of Thomas Taylor of Dodsworth Hall, Barnsley
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1913 vol 88 pp i-iv signed by G H B
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/54541798
CodeNA5868
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1890/04Burbury, Samuel Hawksley: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/000660Burbury, Samuel Hawkesleynd
NLB/8/833Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Samuel Hawksley Burbury, Fellow of the Royal Society, 1 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, W.C.6 January 1894
NLB/11/1002Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons[November 1895]
NLB/11/987Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Samuel Hawksley Burbury, Fellow of the Royal Society13 November 1895
RR/15/66Referee's report by Samuel Hawksley Burbury, on a paper 'The distribution of molecular energy' by James Hopwood Jeans26 July 1900
NLB/21/416Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Samuel Hawksley Burbury, Fellow of the Royal Society15 November 1900
NLB/21/473Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Samuel Hawksley Burbury, Fellow of the Royal Society23 November 1900
NLB/21/600Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Samuel Hawksley Burbury, Fellow of the Royal SocietyUndated
NLB/27/799Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Samuel Hawksley Burbury, Fellow of the Royal Society, 17 Upper Phillimore Gardens, Kensington, W. 2 December 1903
NLB/36/618Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Samuel Hawksley Burbury, Fellow of the Royal Society20 November 1907
RR/10/129Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'On the induction of electric currents in conducting shells of small thickness' by Samuel Hawksley Burbury12 April 1888
RR/11/127Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On the collision of elastic bodies' by Samuel Hawksley Burbury13 February 1892
RR/12/280Referee's report by Joseph Larmor, on a paper 'On the applications of the kinetic theory to dense gases' by Samuel Hawksley Burbury24 January 1895
RR/12/281Detailed referee's report by Joseph Larmor, on a paper 'On the applications of the kinetic theory to dense gases' by Samuel Hawksley Burbury[1895]
RR/12/282Referee's report by William Burnside, on a paper 'On the applications of the kinetic theory to dense gases' by Samuel Hawksley Burbury6 February 1895
RR/12/285Referee's report by George Hartley Bryan, on a paper 'On the applications of the kinetic theory to dense gases' by Samuel Hawksley Burbury24 June 1895
RR/12/287Letter from George Hartley Bryan, to William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, regarding a paper 'On the applications of the kinetic theory to dense gases' by Samuel Hawksley Burbury18 July 1895
RR/12/286Two letters from William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, to George Hartley Bryan, regarding a paper 'On the applications of the kinetic theory to dense gases' by Samuel Hawksley Burbury6 July 1895
IM/Maull/000662Burbury, Samuel Hawkesleynd
RR/12/284Referee's report by George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'On the applications of the kinetic theory to dense gases' by Samuel Hawksley Burbury1 June 1895
RR/10/130Referee's report by Charles Niven, on a paper 'On the induction of electric currents in conducting shells of small thickness' by Samuel Hawksley Burbury6 June 1888
RR/12/288Letter from Joseph Larmor, to William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, regarding a paper 'On the applications of the kinetic theory to dense gases' by Samuel Hawksley Burbury20 July 1895
RR/12/289Second letter from Joseph Larmor, to William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, regarding a paper 'On the applications of the kinetic theory to dense gases' by Samuel Hawksley Burbury17 September 1895
RR/12/283Second referee's report by William Burnside, on a paper 'On the applications of the kinetic theory to dense gases' by Samuel Hawksley Burbury7 February 1895
MC/16Volume 16 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1893-1896
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