| Authorised form of name | Harley; Robert (1828 - 1910) |
| Dates | 1828 - 1910 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Liverpool, Lancashire, England |
| Date of birth | 23 January 1828 |
| Place of death | Rosslyn, Westbourne Road, Forest Hill, London |
| Date of death | 26/07/1910 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Ladywell cemetery, London |
| Occupation | Congregational minister |
| Research field | Mathematics |
| Algebra |
| Activity | Career:
Taught mathematics at Seacombe, Liverpool, and at Blackburn; Congregational Minister, Brighouse, Yorkshire (1854-1868); Professor of Mathematics and Logic, Airedale College; Pastor, Leicester (1868-1872); Vice-Principal, Mill Hill School (1872-1881); Principal, Huddersfield College, 1882-1885); Minister, Oxford (1886-1890)
Memberships:
FRAS; Corresponding Member, Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 04/06/1863 |
| Relationships | Son of Robert Harley and his wife Mary, daughter of William Stevenson; married Sarah, daughter of James Stroyan of Wigan (she died 1905) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1914-1915 vol 91 pp i-v, plate, signed by P A M
References:
Sir Brian Pippard, FRS, 'Schoolmaster-Fellows and the campaign for science education' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 63-81, plate |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/68714308 |
| Code | NA6124 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1863/06 | Harley, Robert: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/Maull/001952 | Harley, Robert | nd |
| IM/Maull/001951 | Harley, Robert | 1893 |
| PT/63/16 | Paper, 'On the method of symmetric products and on certain circular functions connected with that method' by Rev Robert Harley | 1 September 1860 |
| NLB/3/432 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Rev Robert Harley, Fellow of the Royal Society | 8 June 1889 |
| NLB/10/785 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society | 5 February 1895 |
| NLB/11/661 | Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 4 September 1895 |
| NLB/12/311 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Rev Robert Harley, Fellow of the Royal Society | 28 January 1896 |
| NLB/12/533 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Rev Robert Harley, Fellow of the Royal Society | 9 March 1896 |
| NLB/23/2/221 | Copy letter from Sir Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Reverend Robert Harley, Fellow of the Royal Society | 2 July 1901 |
| NLB/24/614 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Reverend Robert Harley, Fellow of the Royal Society | 9 June 1902 |
| NLB/31/651 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Reverend Robert Harley, Fellow of the Royal Society | 26 October 1905 |
| NLB/38/151 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Reverend Robert Harley, Fellow of the Royal Society | 19 June 1908 |
| RR/4/122 | Referee's report by Philip Kelland, on a paper 'On the method of symmetric products, and on certain circular functions connected with that method' by Robert Harley | 23 March 1861 |
| RR/4/121 | Referee's report by James Booth, on a paper 'On the method of symmetric products, and on certain circular functions connected with that method' by Robert Harley | 11 March 1861 |
| RR/7/239 | Referee's report by Robert Harley, on a paper 'On the algebraical analogues of logical relations' by Alexander John Ellis | 1 May 1873 |
| NLB/2/124 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Reverend Robert Harley, Fellow of the Royal Society, 4 Wellington Square, Oxford | 25 January 1888 |
| NLB/19/314 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Reverend Robert Harley, Fellow of the Royal Society, Rosslyn, Westbourne Road, Forest Hill, S.E. | 3 August 1899 |
| MC/7/155 | Letter from Robert Harley, The Manse, Brighouse, Normanton, to W [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 22 December 1864 |
| MC/7 | Volume 7 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1864-1866 |
| RR/7/401 | Referee's report by Robert Harley, on a paper 'On the integration of algebraical functions, with illustrations in mechanics' by William Henry Leighton Russell | 29 March 1875 |
| PP/6/6 | Paper, 'Professor Malet's classes of invariants identified with Sir James Cockle's criticoids' by Robert Harley | 1884 |
| PP/6/23 | Paper, 'Note on Rev Robert Harley's paper "Professor Malet's classes of invariants identified with Sir James Cockle's criticoids"' by John C [Christian] Malet | 1885 |