| Authorised form of name | Hirst; Thomas Archer (1830 - 1892); mathematician |
| Dates | 1830 - 1892 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Heckmondwike, Yorkshire, England |
| Date of birth | 22 April 1830 |
| Place of death | 7 Oxford and Cambridge Mansions, London |
| Date of death | 16 February 1892 |
| Dates and places | Burial:
Highgate Cemetery, London |
| Research field | Mathematics |
| Activity | Education:
PhD (Marburg)
Career:
Articled to a land surveyor, Halifax (1846); met John Tyndall and followed him to Marburg; teacher, Queenwood College, Hampshire (1853); resigned due to ill health (1856); studied in Paris; Mathematical Master, University College School, London (1860); Professor of Physics, University College, London (1865); Professor of Pure Mathematics, University College, London (1866-1870); Director of Naval Studies, Greenwich (1873-1883)
Memberships:
FRAS (1866); Philosophical Society of Halle; Philosophical Society of Marburg
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 06/06/1861 |
| Royal Society activity | Royal Society roles:
VP 1872-1873, 1880-1882
Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1883 |
| Relationships | Youngest son of Thomas Hirst, wool stapler, and his wife (Miss) Oates; married (1854) Anna, daughter of Samuel Martin of Langhorne, County Down (she died 1857) |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1892-1893 vol 52 pp xii-xiv signed by A R F, includes memoranda concerning Dr Hirst pp xiv-xviii signed by J T
References:
I M James, 'James Joseph Sylvester, FRS (1814-1897)' in NR 1997 vol 51 pp 247-261
Roy M MacLeod, 'The X-Club: A Social Network of Science in Late-Victorian England' in NR 1969 vol 24 pp 305-322 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/311114939 |
| Royal Society code | NA8240 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| IM/Maull/002125 | Hirst, Thomas Archer | nd |
| PP/2/4 | Paper, 'Sur l'inversion générale' [On the general inversion] by T S Vaněček | 1882 |
| PP/1/26 | Paper, 'Sur les surfaces homofocales du second ordre' [On second order confocal surfaces] by A [Amédée] Mannheim | 1882 |
| NLB/7/357 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr John Tyndall, Fellow of the Royal Society | 27 January 1893 |
| NLB/8/1149 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 7 March 1894 |
| NLB/7/147 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 10 December 1892 |
| RR/5/120 | Referee's report by John Couch Adams, on a paper 'On the volumes of pedal surfaces' by Thomas Archer Hirst | [1863] |
| RR/7/84 | Referee's report by Thomas Archer Hirst, on a paper 'On the problem of the in-and-circumscribed triangle' by Arthur Cayley | 22 February 1871 |
| RR/4/252 | Referee's report by Thomas Archer Hirst, on a paper 'On the contact of curves' by William Spottiswoode | 28 February 1862 |
| RR/7/36 | Referee's report by Thomas Archer Hirst, on a paper 'On the mechanical performance of logical inference' by William Stanley Jevons | 23 April 1870 |
| RR/7/39 | Referee's report by Thomas Archer Hirst, on a paper 'On the mechanical performance of logical inference' by William Stanley Jevons | 19 May 1870 |
| RR/6/189 | Referee's report by Thomas Archer Hirst, on a paper 'On the impact of compressible bodies, considered with reference to the theory of pressure' by R Moon | 5 October 1868 |
| RR/9/69 | Letter from Thomas Archer Hirst, on a paper 'On a class of invariants' by John Christian Malet to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 25 February 1882 |
| MS/427/306 | Note of a letter [from George Gabriel Stokes, Secretary of] the Royal Society; to Sir Henry [Frederick] Ponsonby K.C.B | 1 November 1883 |
| RR/6/274 | Referee's report by Thomas Archer Hirst, on a paper 'On the orders and genera of ternary quadratic forms' by Henry John Stephen Smith | 14 March 1867 |
| EC/1861/05 | Hirst, Thomas Archer: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/7/15 | Referee's report by Thomas Archer Hirst, on a paper 'A memoir on abstract geometry' by Arthur Cayley | 14 February 1870 |
| RR/4/187 | Referee's report by Thomas Archer Hirst , on a paper 'On a new method of approximation applicable to elliptic and ultra-elliptic functions - Second memoir' by Charles Watkins Merrifield | 5 July 1862 |
| PT/68/1 | Paper, 'On the volumes of pedal surfaces' by T A [Thomas Archer] Hirst | 1 August 1862 |
| RR/5/45 | Referee's report by Thomas Archer Hirst, on a paper 'On the sextactic points of a plane curve' by Arthur Cayley | 8 February 1865 |
| MC/7/323 | Letter from [J Tyndall] to T [Thomas] Archer Hirst | 26 April 1866 |
| MC/7 | Volume 7 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1864-1866 |
| MC/8/114 | Letter from T [Thomas] Archer Hirst, the Athenaeum, to [William] Sharpey, [Secretary of the Royal Society] | 26 November 1867 |
| RR/5/119 | Referee's report by William Spottiswoode, on a paper 'On the volumes of pedal surfaces' by Thomas Archer Hirst | 1 April 1863 |
| MC/8/346 | Letter from members of the Athenaeum Club to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 8 April 1869 |
| MC/9/143 | Letter from T [Thomas] Archer Hirst, General Secretary of the British Association, 22 Albemarle Street, to Dr [William] Sharpey, Secretary of the Royal Society | 10 December 1870 |
| MC/9 | Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1870-June 1873 |
| AP/36/20 | Paper, 'On the existence of a magnetic medium' by T A [Thomas Archer] Hirst | 10 April 1855 |
| RR/4/147 | Referee's report by Thomas Archer Hirst, on a paper 'On the theory of the polyedra' by Thomas Penynton Kirkman | 23 June 1861 |
| MC/8 | Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1867-1869 |
| PP/1/34/1 | Manuscript, 'Sur les centres de courbure principaux des surfaces homofocales du second ordre' [On the principal centers of curvature of confocal surfaces of the second order] by A [Amédée] Mannheim | 1882 |
| PP/1/34 | Paper, 'Sur les centres de courbure principaux des surfaces homofocales du second ordre' [On the principal centers of curvature of confocal surfaces of the second order] by A [Amédée] Mannheim | 1882 |
| PP/1/34/2 | Diagram, geometrical diagram by A [Amédée] Mannheim | 1882 |
| RR/5/69 | Referee's report by Thomas Archer Hirst, on a paper 'Introductory memoir on plane stigmatics' by Alexander John Ellis | 16 September 1865 |
| MC/14/329 | Letter from Thomas Archer Hirst, Athenaum Club, Pall Mall, to [Michael] Foster | 3 June 1888 |
| MC/14 | Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1885-1888 |
| HS/10/196 | Letter, from Thomas A. Hirst to Sir John Herschel, dated at Athenaeum | 18 December 1869 |