| Authorised form of name | Basset; Alfred Barnard (1854 - 1930); mathematician |
| Dates | 1854 - 1930 |
| Nationality | British |
| Date of birth | 05/12/1930 |
| Place of death | Fledborough Hall, Holyport, Berkshire, England |
| Date of death | 05/12/1930 |
| Occupation | Barrister |
| Mathematician |
| Research field | Fluid dynamics |
| Hydrodynamics |
| Electrodynamics |
| Algebraic geometry |
| Mathematics |
| Activity | Education:
Trinity College, Cambridge. BA (1877), MA
Career:
Called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn (1879); published work on hydrodynamics (1888), on physical optics (1892), on cubic and quartic curves (1901) and on geometry of surfaces (1910); retired to Berkshire.
Memberships:
Mathematical Society (VP 1892-93) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 06/06/1889 |
| Age at election | 41 |
| Proposer | Norman Macleod Ferrers; Joseph John Thomson; Andrew Russell Forsyth; William Mitchinson Hicks; John Couch Adams; Percival Frost; William Henry Besant; Richard Tetley Glazebrook; George Howard Darwin; James Whitbread Lee Glaisher; Alfred George Greenhill |
| Relationships | Only son of Alfred Basset; married Edith Sarah Irwin, daughter of Thomas Gustave de Chaundre of Rouen and Dublin |
| Published works | RCN 26823
RCN 26824
RCN 26825
RCN 26821
RCN 26822
RCN 26820 |
| General context | Remembered for Basset force; Basset integral; Basset–Boussinesq–Oseen equation.
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| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
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| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1931 vol 131 pp i-ii signed by H L
References:
Lawrence Badash, 'British and American Views of the German Menace in World War I' in NR 1979-80 vol 34 pp 91-121 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/34817383 |
| Royal Society code | NA8117 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| NLB/8/605 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Alfred Barnard Basset, Fellow of the Royal Society | 24 November 1893 |
| NLB/30/286 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Alfred Barnard Basset, Fellow of the Royal Society | 25 February 1905 |
| NLB/30/299 | Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Alfred Barnard Basset, Fellow of the Royal Society | 28 February 1905 |
| NLB/33/266 | Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Alfred Barnard Basset, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Grand Hotel, Folkestone | 26 July 1906 |
| NLB/34/643 | Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Alfred Barnard Basset, Fellow of the Royal Society | 21 February 1907 |
| NLB/38/541 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Alfred Barnard Basset, Fellow of the Royal Society | 16 September 1908 |
| NLB/38/455 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Alfred Barnard Basset, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fledborough Hall, Holyport, Berkshire | 7 August 1908 |
| RR/11/13 | Letter from Albert Barnard Basset, on his paper 'On the reflection and refraction of light at the surface of a magnetized medium' to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, Secretary of the Royal Society | 1 July 1891 |
| RR/10/9 | Referee's report by William Mitchinson Hicks, on a paper 'On the motion of a sphere in a viscous liquid' by Alfred Barnard Basset | 26 December 1887 |
| RR/11/110 | Letter from Alfred Barnard Basset, on his paper 'Stability and instability of viscous liquids' to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 25 March 1892 |
| RR/11/109 | Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'Stability and instability of viscous liquids' by Alfred Barnard Basset | 27 September 1892 |
| RR/10/319 | Referee's report by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, on a paper 'On the extension and flexure of cylindrical and spherical thin elastic shells' by Alfred Barnard Basset | 13 February 1890 |
| RR/10/364 | Referee's report by Alfred Barnard Basset, on a paper 'On the theory of free stream lines' by John Henry Michell | 6 March 1890 |
| RR/11/9 | Referee's report by George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'On the reflection and refraction of light at the surface of a magnetized medium' by Alfred Barnard Basset | 11 March 1891 |
| MS/603/1/62 | Notes on the oscillations of a spheroid, by [Alfred Barnard Basset] | 28 February 1887 |
| MS/603/1/61 | Letter from A B [Alfred Barnard] Basset, Chapel Place Mansion, 322 Oxford Street, to [Joseph] Larmor | 28 February 1887 |
| MS/603/1/68 | Letter from A B [Alfred Barnard] Basset, Queen's Hotel, Hastings, to [Joseph] Larmor | 20 February 1929 |
| EC/1889/05 | Basset, Alfred Barnard: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MC/37/10 | Letter from [Alfred Barnard] Basset, Fledborough Hall, Holyport, Berks, to The Secretaries, Royal Society | 8 February 1923 |
| IM/Maull/000280 | Basset, Alfred Barnard | nd |
| NLB/3/1063 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to [John William Strutt] the Lord Rayleigh, [Royal Society] | 3 January 1890 |
| NLB/8/985 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Alfred Barnard Basset, Fellow of the Royal Society, 322 Oxford Street, W. | 5 February 1894 |
| RR/10/375 | Referee's report by Alfred Barnard Basset, on a paper 'On Stokes’s current function' by Ralph Allen Sampson | 19 December 1890 |
| RR/10/318 | Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'On the extension and flexure of cylindrical and spherical thin elastic shells' by Alfred Barnard Basset | 23 December 1889 |
| RR/11/12 | Third letter from George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'On the reflection and refraction of light at the surface of a magnetized medium' by Alfred Barnard Basset to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, Secretary of the Royal Society | 22 June 1891 |
| MS/603/1/67 | Letter from A B [Alfred Barnard] Basset, Fledborough Hall, Holyport, Berkshire, to [Joseph] Larmor | 29 October 1914 |
| MS/603/1/65 | Letter from A B [Alfred Barnard] Basset, Fledborough Hall, Holyport, Berkshire, to [Joseph] Larmor | 24 October 1894 |
| RR/10/320 | Second referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'On the extension and flexure of cylindrical and spherical thin elastic shells' by Alfred Barnard Basset | 13 March 1890 |
| AP/69/3 | Unpublished paper, 'Stability and instability of viscous liquids' by A B [Alfred Barnard] Basset | 1892 |
| RR/11/8 | Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On the reflection and refraction of light at the surface of a magnetized medium' by Alfred Barnard Basset | 18 February 1891 |
| RR/11/10 | Letter from George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'On the reflection and refraction of light at the surface of a magnetized medium' by Alfred Barnard Basset to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, Secretary of the Royal Society | 12 March 1891 |
| RR/11/11 | Second letter from George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'On the reflection and refraction of light at the surface of a magnetized medium' by Alfred Barnard Basset to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, Secretary of the Royal Society | 16 March 1891 |
| NLB/38/401 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Alfred Barnard Basset, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fledborough Hall, Holyport, Berks | 29 July 1908 |
| MC/23/35 | Letter from [Alfred Barnard] Basset, Fledborough Hall, Holyport, Berks, to The Royal Society | 28 July 1908 |
| MC/23/36 | Letter from [Alfred Barnard] Basset, Fledborough Hall, Holyport, Berks, to The Royal Society | 15 September 1908 |
| MS/603/1/63 | Letter from A B [Alfred Barnard] Basset, Chapel Place Mansion, 322 Oxford Street, to [Joseph] Larmor | 24 February 1892 |
| MS/603/1/66 | Letter from A B [Alfred Barnard] Basset, Grand Hotel Californie, Cannes, to [Joseph] Larmor | 28 January 1897 |
| MS/603/1/64 | Letter from A B [Alfred Barnard] Basset, United University Club, Pall Mall East, to [Joseph] Larmor | 8 July 1895 |
| MC/23 | Volume 23 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1908 |
| MC/29/167 | Letter from Oliver Lodge, The University, Birmingham, to the Officers of the Royal Society | 23 October 1914 |
| MC/35 | Volume 35 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1921 |
| MC/35/10 | Letter from [Alfred Barnard] Basset, Fledborough Hall, Holyport, Berks, to the Treasurer of the Royal Society | 13 April 1921 |
| MC/35/11 | Letter from [Alfred Barnard] Basset, Fledborough Hall, Holyport, Berks, to the Royal Society | 1 February 1921 |