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Authorised form of nameIvory; Sir; James (1765 - 1842); mathematician
Dates1765 - 1842
NationalityBritish
Place of birthDundee, Angus, Scotland
Date of birth17 February 1765
Place of deathHampstead, London
Date of death21 September 1842
Research fieldMathematics
ActivityEducation:
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
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election06/04/1815
Royal Society activityMedals and prizes:
Copley Medal 1814; Royal Medal 1826; Royal Medal 1839
Lectures:
Bakerian 1838
RelationshipsEldest son of James Ivory, watchmaker; unmarried
SourcesSources:
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 Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/170826820
Royal Society codeNA7611
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
M/139Royal Medal1839
M/137Royal Medal1826
MS/257/4/8Letter from Edward Sabine to [James] Ivory28 September 1826
MC/1/142Letter from James Ivory to the Royal Society12 April 1826
EC/1814/38Ivory, Sir James: certificate of election to the Royal Society
AP/18/12Unpublished appendix, 'Note on the astronomical refractions' by James Ivory6 November 1834
AP/17/9/3Unpublished letter, 'On the method proposed by Professor [George Biddell] Airy for expanding the disturbing function in his paper in "Philosophical Transactions" for 1833' from Peter Mark Roget to James Ivory25 November 1833
MC/2/125Letter from James Ivory, 20 Southampton Street, Pentonville, to Dr. Peter Mark Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society4 June 1834
MC/2/5Letter from James Ivory, 20 Southampton Street, Pentonville, to Dr. [Peter Mark] Roget, [Secretary of the Royal Society]12 January 1832
MC/2/121Letter from James Ivory, 20 Southampton Street, Pentonville, to Dr. Peter Mark Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society27 May 1834
RR/1/119Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the theory of the astronomical refractions' by James Ivory11 July 1838
MC/1/71Letter from Davies Gilbert, Treasurer of the Royal Society, East Bourne, to the Royal Society 19 July 1821
PT/6/1iPaper, 'On the attractions of an extensive class of spheroids' by J [James] Ivory[1811]
MC/1/96Letter from James Ivory, 17 Grafton Street, Tottenham Court Road, to the Royal Society4 November 1823
PT/8/10/1Manuscript, 'A new method of deducing a first approximation to the orbit of a comet from three geocentric observations' by James Ivory[1814]
PT/20/6Paper, 'On the theory of the perturbations of the planets' by James Ivory22 December 1831
PT/8/10/2Plate, diagrams showing direction of comet and movement of earth by [James Ivory][1814]
PT/19/6Paper, 'On the theory of the elliptic transcendents' by James Ivory[1831]
PT/22/9Paper, '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 Ivory25 July 1839
PT/3/21Paper, 'On the attractions of homogeneous ellipsoids' by James Ivory[1809]
PT/22/10Paper, 'On the conditions of equilibrium of an incompressible fluid, the particles of which are acted upon by accelerating forces' by James Ivory[1839]
MC/2/4Letter from James Ivory, 20 Southampton Street, Pentonville, to Dr. Peter Mark Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society 12 January 1832
MC/2Volume 2 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1832-1838
MC/2/152Letter from [Dr. Peter Mark Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society], Bernard Street, to James Ivory22 December 1834
MC/3Volume 3 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1839-1843
MC/3/24Letter from James Ivory, 20 Southampton Street, Pentonville, to Samuel Hunter Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society20 May 1839
MC/3/57Letter 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
MC/1Volume 1 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1800-1831
AP/18/11Unpublished appendix, 'Remarks on a passage in report of the Council of the Royal Astronomical Society at their last annual meeting, 14 February 1834' by James Ivory27 May 1834
RR/1/120Referee'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 Ivory10 February 1838
AP/17/9Unpublished letters, 'On the method proposed by Professor [George Biddell] Airy for expanding the disturbing function in his paper in "Philosophical Transactions" for 1833' from James Ivory to the Royal Society1833
AP/17/9/1Unpublished letter, 'On the method proposed by Professor [George Biddell] Airy for expanding the disturbing function in his paper in "Philosophical Transactions" for 1833' from James Ivory to the Royal Society14 November 1833
AP/18/10Unpublished appendix, 'Some remarks on the manner in which the equilibrium of fluids is usually treated' by James Ivory1834
AP/17/9/2Unpublished letters, 'On the method proposed by Professor [George Biddell] Airy for expanding the disturbing function in his paper in "Philosophical Transactions" for 1833' from James Ivory to P M [Peter Mark] RogetMay-November 1833
PT/16/29Paper, 'On the astronomical refractions' by J [James] Ivory[1823]
PT/8/10Paper, 'A new method of deducing a first approximation to the orbit of a comet from three geocentric observations' by James Ivory[1814]
MS/257/2/336Letter from James Ivory, 20 Southampton Street, Pentonville to [Edward Sabine]18 September [1826]
PT/6/1Paper, '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]
HS/10/254aLetter, from James Ivory to Sir John Herschel, dated at 20 Southampton St., Pentonville10 July 1828
HS/10/255aCopy of draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to James IvoryNovember 1828
HS/10/258Letter, from James Ivory to Sir John Herschel, dated at 20 Southampton St., Pentonville25 June 1838
HS/10/259Letter, from James Ivory to Sir John Herschelundated
HS/10/257Letter, from James Ivory to Sir John Herschel, dated at 20 Southampton St., Pentonville19 June 1838
HS/10/256Letter, from James Ivory to Sir John Herschel, dated at 20 Southampton St., Pentonville14 October 1831
HS/10/255Letter, from James Ivory to Sir John Herschel, dated at 20 Southampton St., PentonvilleNovember 1828
HS/21/17Copy of draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to James Ivory12 July 1828
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