| Authorised form of name | Colson; John (1680 - 1760) |
| Dates | 1680 - 1760 |
| Nationality | British |
| Date of birth | 1680 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |
| Date of death | 20 January 1760 |
| Activity | Education:
Lichfield Cathedral School: Christ Church, Oxford (matriculated 1699); Emmanuel College, Cambridge. MA (com Reg 1723)
Career:
Master of Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School at Rochester, Kent; Vicar of Chalk, Kent (1724-1740); Tutor to David Garrick (1737); Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Cambridge (1739-1760); Member of the Board of Longitude; Rector of Lockington, Yorkshire
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 11/06/1713 |
| Relationships | Son of Francis Colson, Vicar Choral of Lichfield Cathedral, Staffordshire; unmarried |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Foster; Venn; Taylor; Taylor Hanoverian
References:
A D Atkinson, 'Dr Johnson and the Royal Society' in NR 1953 vol 10 pp 131-138
W Johnson, 'Contributors to Improving the Teaching of Calculus in Early 19th-Century England' in NR 1995 vol 49 pp 93-103
Obituary, Gentleman's Magazine (1760), p.102.
L B Glyn, 'Israel Lyons: a short but starry career. The life of an eighteenth-century Jewish botanist and astronomer' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 275-305
J H Appleby, 'The founding of St Petersburg in the context of the Royal Society's relationship with Russia' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 273-284
P Fara, 'Lucasian Professors. From Newton to Hawking: a history of Cambridge University's Lucasian professors of mathematics, ed K C Knox and R Noakes' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 312-313
Notes:
Proposed by William Jones |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/29921691 |
| Code | NA7778 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| RBO/19/36 | 'The Construction and Use of Spherical Maps, or such as are delineated upon portions of a Spherical Surface' by John Colson | 1735 |
| RBO/12/78 | 'A short Account of a negativo-affirmative Arithmetick' by John Colson | 1726 |
| CLP/8ii/77/1 | Manuscript, 'Inquiry concerning the figure of such planets as revolve about an Axis supposing the Density continually to vary, from the Center towards the Surface' by Alexis Claude Clairaut | [1737] |
| CLP/7ii/15 | Paper, 'The construction and use of spherical mapps, or such as are delineated upon portions of a spherical surface' by John Colson | 1735 |
| CLP/1/9 | Paper, 'A short account of negativo-affirmative arithmetick' by John Colson | [1726] |
| CLP/8ii/77 | Translated paper, 'Inquiry concerning the figure of such planets as revolve about an Axis supposing the Density continually to vary, from the Center towards the Surface' by Alexis Claude Clairaut | [1737] |
| RBO/20/19 | 'A brief Account by Mr Eames of a Work intitled: The Method of Fluxions and infinite Series, with its applicationt to the Geometry of Curve Lines, by the Inventor, Sir Isaac Newton' | 1736 |