| Authorised form of name | Crofton; Morgan William (1826 - 1915) |
| Dates | 1826 - 1915 |
| Date of birth | 27 June 1826 |
| Date of death | 13/05/1915 |
| Research field | Mathematics |
| Activity | Education:
Dublin. BA
Career:
Professor of Mathematics, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Professor of Natural Philosophy, Queen's University, Ireland
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 04/06/1868 |
| Relationships | Son of Rev William Crofton, Rector of Skreene, county Sligo, and his wife Melisina, daughter of Rev Henry Woodward.
Married: 1) (31 August 1857) Julia Agnes Cecilia, daughter of J B Kernan (died 1902); 2) Katherine, daughter of Holland Taylor of Manchester |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
References:
T M Charlton, 'An Extension of Maxwell's Theory of Pin-Jointed Frameworks by M W Crofton, FRS' in NR 1989 vol 43 pp 53-56 |
| Royal Society code | NA8050 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| NLB/2/635 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Morgan William Crofton, Fellow of the Royal Society | 1 October 1888 |
| NLB/7/324 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to C Coupe, Stonyhouse College, Blackburn | 20 January 1893 |
| NLB/36/330 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 14 October 1907 |
| RR/7/18 | Referee's report by Isaac Todhunter, on a paper 'On the proof of the law of errors of observations' by Morgan William Crofton | 9 November 1869 |
| RR/7/19 | Referee's report by John Couch Adams, on a paper 'On the proof of the law of errors of observations' by Morgan William Crofton | 1870 |
| RR/7/20 | Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the proof of the law of errors of observations' by Morgan William Crofton to the author | 21 January 1870 |
| EC/1868/10 | Crofton, Morgan William: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/Maull/000995 | Crofton, Morgan William | nd |
| RR/6/88 | Referee's report by Archibald Smith, on a paper 'On the theory of local probability, applied to straight lines drawn at random in a plane; the methods used being also extended to the proof of certain new theorems in the integral calculus' by Morgan William Crofton | 30 March 1868 |
| RR/8/10 | Referee's report by Morgan William Crofton, on a paper ' On clairautian functions and equations' by Allan Cunningham | 25 October 1877 |
| RR/8/52 | Referee's report by Morgan William Crofton, on a paper 'On the calculation of the trajectories of shot' by William Davidson Niven | 12 January 1877 |
| RR/6/89 | Referee's report by Isaac Todhunter, on a paper 'On the theory of local probability, applied to straight lines drawn at random in a plane; the methods used being also extended to the proof of certain new theorems in the integral calculus' by Morgan William Crofton | 7 April 1868 |