| Authorised form of name | Richmond; Herbert William (1863 - 1948); geometer |
| Dates | 1863 - 1948 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Tottenham, Middlesex, at Drapers’ College, England |
| Date of birth | 17 July 1863 |
| Place of death | Evelyn Nursing Home, Cambridge, England |
| Date of death | 22/04/1948 |
| Occupation | geometer |
| Research field | Mathematics |
| Algebra |
| Geometry |
| Algebraic geometry |
| Activity | Education:
Merchant Taylors’ School; King’s College, Cambridge MA
Career: College lecturer in mathematics at King's College, Cambridge (1891-1928)
Memberships:
London Mathematical Society (President 1920-1922) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 04/05/1911 |
| Age at election | 48 |
| Proposer | Henry Frederick Baker; William Burnside; John Hilton Grace; Robert Stawell Ball; Ernest William Hobson; Augustus Edward Hough Love; Thomas John I'Anson Bromwich; John Edward Campbell; Edwin Bailey Elliott; Ernest William Barnes |
| Relationships | Parents: Rev. William Hall Richmond and Charlotte Mary, née Ward, the daughter of Dr Joseph Ward of Epsom.
Siblings: George Ward, Alfred Mewburn, Margaret Evelyn, Ethel Mary.
Great-uncle: Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward (FRS 1852) |
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| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1948-1949 vol 6 pp 219-230, plate, by E A Milne and F Puryer White
References:
P B Moon, 'The (London) Physics Club, 1928-1953' in NR 1992 vol 46 pp 171-174 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/42617779 |
| Code | NA6608 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1911/16 | Richmond, Herbert William: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/Maull/003821 | Richmond, Herbert William | nd |
| NLB/59/259 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Herbert William] Richmond Esquire, FRS | 6 August 1920 |
| NLB/55/29 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Herbert William] Richmond Esq., FRS | 10 November 1917 |
| NLB/58/355 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Herbert William] Richmond Esquire, FRS | 23 April 1920 |
| RR/42/67 | Referee's report by Herbert William Richmond, on a paper 'On twisted cubic curves which satisfy twelve conditions' by John Arthur Todd | February 1931 |
| RR/38/156 | Referee's report by Herbert William Richmond, on a paper 'The nodal cubic surfaces and the surfaces from which they are derived by projection' by G Timms | 11 March 1928 |
| RR/38/137 | Referee's report by Herbert William Richmond, on a paper 'Cremona transformations of space of four dimensions by means of quadrics, and the reverse transformations' by J G Semple | January 1929 |
| NLB/59/227 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Herbert William] Richmond Esquire, FRS | 28 July 1920 |
| RR/26/98 | Referee's report by Herbert William Richmond, on a paper 'The design of repeating patterns' by Percy Alexander MacMahon and W P D MacMahon | [November 1921] |
| NLB/64/223 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Herbert William] Richmond Esquire, FRS | 23 February 1923 |
| NLB/70/284 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Herbert William] Richmond Esq., FRS; King's College, Cambridge | 21 February 1927 |
| NLB/71/256 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Herbert William] Richmond, FRS | 29 February 1928 |
| RR/33/119 | Referee's report by Herbert William Richmond, on a paper 'On a set of quartic surfaces in space of four dimensions; and a certain involutory transformation' by H G Telling | 1 December 1925 |
| RR/34/95 | Referee's report by Herbert William Richmond, on a paper 'A general configuration in space of any number of dimensions analogous to the double-six of lines ordinary space' by Thomas Gerald Room | [April 1926] |
| RR/34/105 | Referee's report by Herbert William Richmond, on a paper 'The relations connecting the angle-sums and volume of a polytope in space of n dimensions' by D M Y Sommerville | [December 1926] |
| RR/39/55 | Referee's report by Herbert William Richmond, on a paper 'The polytopes with regular-prismatic vertex figures' by Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter | [January 1930] |
| MC/27/287 | Letter from Herbert [William] Richmond, King's College, Cambridge, to the [Royal Society] | 8 March 1912 |
| MC/29/212 | Letter from Herbert [William] Richmond, King's College, Cambridge, to the [Royal Society] | 4 May 1914 |
| MC/29/213 | Letter from Herbert [William] Richmond, King's College, Cambridge, to the [Royal Society] | 15 May 1914 |