| Authorised form of name | Ivory; Sir; James (1765 - 1842); mathematician |
| Dates | 1765 - 1842 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Dundee, Angus, Scotland |
| Date of birth | 17 February 1765 |
| Place of death | Hampstead, London |
| Date of death | 21 September 1842 |
| Research field | Mathematics |
| Activity | Education:
Universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews
Career:
Taught in a school in Dundee (1786); jointly started a flax spinning mill at Douglastown, near Forfar; studied mathematics in spare time; Professor of Mathematics, Royal Military College, at Marlow and later at Sandhurst (1804); retired on full pension (1819)
Honours:
Kt 1831
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 06/04/1815 |
| Royal Society activity | Medals and prizes:
Copley Medal 1814; Royal Medal 1826; Royal Medal 1839
Lectures:
Bakerian 1838 |
| Relationships | Eldest son of James Ivory, watchmaker; unmarried |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1842 No 55 pp 406-412
References:
Alex D D Craik, 'James Ivory, FRS, mathematician: "the most unlucky person that ever existed"' in NR 2000 vol 54 pp 223-247
Alex D D Craik, 'James Ivory's last papers on the 'Figure of the Earth' (with biographical additions) in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 187-204
Notes:
Precise birth date from DSB; index to BR provides year only. |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/170826820 |
| Royal Society code | NA7611 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| M/139 | Royal Medal | 1839 |
| MC/3 | Volume 3 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1839-1843 |
| EC/1814/38 | | Ivory, Sir James: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MC/2 | Volume 2 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1832-1838 |
| M/137 | Royal Medal | 1826 |
| AP/18/11 | Remarks on a Passage in Report of the Council of the Royal Astronomical Society at their last Annual Meeting, 14 February 1834 | 27 May 1834 |
| AP/18/12 | Note on the Astronomical Refractions | 6 November 1834 |
| AP/17/9 | On the method proposed by Professor Airy for expanding the disturbing function in his paper in 'Philosophical Transactions' for 1833 | November 1833 |
| AP/18/10 | Some remarks on the manner in which the equilibrium of Fluids is usually treated | 1834 |
| MC/1 | Volume 1 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1800-1831 |
| RR/1/119 | Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the theory of the astronomical refractions' by James Ivory | 11 July 1838 |
| MC/1/71 | Letter from Davies Gilbert, Treasurer of the Royal Society, East Bourne, to the Royal Society | 19 July 1821 |
| PT/6/1 | Paper, 'On the grounds of the method which Laplace has given in the second chapter of the third book of his Mécanique Céleste for computing the attractions of spheroids of every description' by James Ivory | [1811] |
| PT/20/6 | Paper, 'On the theory of the perturbations of the planets' by James Ivory | 22 December 1831 |
| PT/3/21 | Paper, 'On the attractions of homogeneous ellipsoids' by James Ivory | [1809] |
| PT/8/10 | Paper, 'A new method of deducing a first approximation to the orbit of a comet from three geocentric observations' by James Ivory | [1814] |
| PT/16/29 | Paper, 'On the astronomical refractions' by J [James] Ivory | [1823] |
| PT/19/6 | Paper, 'On the theory of the elliptic transcendents' by James Ivory | [1831] |
| RR/1/120 | Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Of such ellipsoids, consisting of homogeneous matter, as are capable of having the resultant of the attraction of the mass upon a particle in the surface, and a centrifugal force caused by revolving about one of the axes, made perpendicular to the surface' by James Ivory | 10 February 1838 |
| MC/1/96 | Letter from James Ivory, 17 Grafton Street, Tottenham Court Road, to the Royal Society | 4 November 1823 |
| PT/6/1i | Paper, 'On the attractions of an extensive class of spheroids' by J [James] Ivory | [1811] |
| PT/8/10/1 | Manuscript, 'A new method of deducing a first approximation to the orbit of a comet from three geocentric observations' by James Ivory | [1814] |
| PT/8/10/2 | Plate, diagrams showing direction of comet and movement of earth by [James Ivory] | [1814] |
| MC/1/142 | Letter from James Ivory to the Royal Society | 12 April 1826 |
| PT/22/9 | Paper, 'Note of Mr Ivory relating to the correcting of an error in a paper printed in the Phil Trans [Philosophical Transactions] for 1838 pp. 57 etc.' by James Ivory | 25 July 1839 |
| PT/22/10 | Paper, 'On the conditions of equilibrium of an incompressible fluid, the particles of which are acted upon by accelerating forces' by James Ivory | [1839] |
| MC/2/4 | Letter from James Ivory, 20 Southampton Street, Pentonville, to Dr. Peter Mark Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society | 12 January 1832 |
| MC/2/5 | Letter from James Ivory, 20 Southampton Street, Pentonville, to Dr. [Peter Mark] Roget, [Secretary of the Royal Society] | 12 January 1832 |
| MC/2/121 | Letter from James Ivory, 20 Southampton Street, Pentonville, to Dr. Peter Mark Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society | 27 May 1834 |
| MC/2/125 | Letter from James Ivory, 20 Southampton Street, Pentonville, to Dr. Peter Mark Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society | 4 June 1834 |
| MC/2/152 | Letter from [Dr. Peter Mark Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society], Bernard Street, to James Ivory | 22 December 1834 |
| MC/3/24 | Letter from James Ivory, 20 Southampton Street, Pentonville, to Samuel Hunter Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society | 20 May 1839 |
| MC/3/57 | Letter from H. Wheatley, [Keeper of the Privy Purse], St. James's Palace, to the Marquis of Northampton [President of the Royal Society] | 27 November 1839 |