| Authorised form of name | Davies; Thomas Stephens (1795 - 1851); mathematician |
| Dates | 1795 - 1851 |
| Nationality | British |
| Date of birth | 1795 |
| Place of death | Broomhall Cottage, Shooter's Hill, Kent, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 06 January 1851 |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
| Research field | Trigonometry |
| Terrestrial magnetism |
| Geometry |
| Mathematics |
| Activity | Career:
Schoolmaster in Bath; had his first scientfic communications published in the Leeds Correspondent (1817), and the Gentleman's Diary (1819); Mathematical Master at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (1834); council member of the short-lived Historical Society of Science (1840); edited, with William Rutherford and Stephen Fenwick, the first volume of The Mathematician (1845); had bronchitis for the final six years of his life and died at home following an attack of influenza.
Memberships:
FRSE; FSA |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 18/04/1833 |
| Proposer | John Lee |
| William Somerville |
| Peter Barlow |
| Baden Powell |
| Charles Frederick Barnwell |
| Stephen Peter Rigaud |
| Thomas Allen |
| Robert Ferguson |
| John Cloyne |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 35701
RCN 35705
RCN 35706
RCN 35704 |
| OtherInfo | Gained a reputation as a mathematician and science writer. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/7791360 |
| Code | NA3436 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| MC/4/29 | Letter from [Thomas Stephens] Davies, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, to Dr [Peter Mark] Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society | 10 June 1844 |
| RR/1bis/35 | Referee's report by Thomas Stephens Davies, on a paper 'A method of proving the three leading properties of the ellipse and the hyperbola from a well-known property of the circle' by Jonathan Frederick Pollock | 7 March 1843 |
| MC/2/166 | Letter from Thomas Stephens Davies, [mathemical master at the] Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, to the Council of the Royal Society | 25 March 1835 |
| EC/1833/09 | Davies, Thomas Stephens: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MC/2 | Volume 2 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1832-1838 |
| PT/74/3/12 | Diagram, tangents of magnetic curve by [Thomas Stephens Davies?] | [1836] |
| MS/426/405 | Copy letter from S H [Samuel Hunter] Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society; to T S [Thomas Stephens] Davies, Esq | 31 January 1850 |
| PT/74/3/13 | Diagram, system of branches of magnetic curve by [Thomas Stephens Davies?] | [1836] |
| MC/4 | Volume 4 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1844-1850 |
| RR/1bis/11 | Referee's report by Thomas Stephens Davies, on a paper 'On the rectification and quadrature of the spherical ellipse' by James Booth | 6 October 1842 |