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Authorised form of nameJevons; William Stanley (1835 - 1882); economist
Dates1835 - 1882
NationalityBritish
Place of birthAlfred Street, Liverpool, England
Date of birth01 September 1835
Place of deathGalley Hill, Bulverhythe, near Hastings, Sussex
Date of death13 August 1882
Research fieldLogic
Economics
Philosophy of science
ActivityEducation:
University College, London. MA (1862)
Career:
Assayer to the Mint, Sydney, Australia (1853-1859); Professor of Logic and Political Economy, Owens College, Manchester (1866-1879); Professor of Political Economy, University College, London (1876-1880); Examiner in Political Economy in the University of London; drowned while bathing
Memberships:
Manchester Statistical Society (President)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election06/06/1872
RelationshipsSon of Thomas Jevons, iron merchant, and his wife Mary Anne, daughter of William Roscoe, historian; married (1867) Harriet Anne Taylor
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1883 vol 35 pp i-xii signed by R H
Notes:
B Stewart and Charles Babbage have both signed the election certificate twice
References:
R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/68944005
CodeNA6360
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1872/01Jevons, William Stanley: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/2/209Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mrs Jevons, 2 The Chestnuts, Branch Hill, Hampstead, N.W.28 February 1888
MC/14/296Letter from Harriet A Jevons, 2 The Chestnuts, Branch Hill, Hampstead, to the Secretary of the Royal Society13 February 1888
NLB/11/806Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Oswald Stoll, The Empire, Cardiff9 October 1895
NLB/52/859Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Ellis Thomas Powell Esquire; the Financial News, 111 Queen Victoria Street, E.C.3 March 1916
RR/7/40Referee's report by Henry John Stephen Smith, on a paper 'On the mechanical performance of logical inference' by William Stanley Jevons28 July 1870
RR/7/36Referee's report by Thomas Archer Hirst, on a paper 'On the mechanical performance of logical inference' by William Stanley Jevons23 April 1870
RR/7/38Referee's report by Alexander John Ellis, on a paper 'On the mechanical performance of logical inference' by William Stanley Jevons13 May 1870
RR/7/39Referee's report by Thomas Archer Hirst, on a paper 'On the mechanical performance of logical inference' by William Stanley Jevons19 May 1870
RR/7/41Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the mechanical performance of logical inference' by William Stanley Jevons1870
RR/7/37Letter from Alexander John Ellis, on a paper 'On the mechanical performance of logical inference' by William Stanley Jevons to the Secretary of the Royal Society12 May 1870
MC/9/115Letter from Wm [William] Allen Miller, [Treasurer of the Royal Society], 103 Upper Tulse Hill, to Dr [William] Sharpey, Secretary of the Royal Society6 August 1870
MC/9Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1870-June 1873
RR/7/176Referee's report by William Stanley Jevons, on a paper 'Contributions to formal logic' by Alexander John Ellis2 July 1872
MC/14Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1885-1888
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