| 词条 | J. B. Lockhart |
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James Balfour Lockhart FRSE (1886–1969) was a Scottish mathematician and teacher. He was generally known as J. B. Lockhart or simply JBL. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. LifeHe was born in Cambuslang in 1886. He was educated locally then studied for the Civil Service at Skerry's College in Glasgow. In 1912 he decided to start studying Mathematics and Natural Philosophy (physics) at Edinburgh University. His studies were interrupted by the First World War, during which he served in Egypt and Gallipoli.[1] He appears to have been a Private in the Royal Army Medical Corps[2] Returning to university after the war he graduated with first class honours also receiving the Napier Medal for best mathematician in 1920. Upon graduation he decided to stay in Edinburgh and began teaching at Edinburgh Academy. In 1930 he became house-master of Dundas House, a boarding facility for the academy at 2 Kinnear Road. In 1932 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[3] His proposers were Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Herbert Turnbull, Charles Barkla and Sir Charles Galton Darwin.[4] In 1937 he moved to Inverleith Grove, and in 1940 took over as Head of Mathematics. In October 1950 he fell ill and in 1951 was forced to retire due to a heart condition. He died of complications following an operation on a broken leg in Glenfarg Hospital on 27 January 1969. His wife died in July of the same year. FamilyHe was happily married to Adie, whom he had met as a student at Skerrys College. Holidays were spent at his cottage in Kingskettle in Fife. On retiral they moved to Balmony, a cottage in Glendevon in southern Perthshire (now part of Clackmannanshire). His hobbies included bee-keeping. References1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0013091500013055|website=cambridge.org|title=www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0013091500013055|accessdate=2018-02-13}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Lockhart, James Balfour}}2. ^{{cite web|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D3706625|title=Medal card of Lockhart, J B Corps: Royal Army Medical Corps Regiment No: 216...|website=The National Archives|accessdate=2018-02-13}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v129/n3254/abs/129391c0.html|title=Royal Society of Edinburgh Elections|website=Nature|accessdate=2018-02-13}} 4. ^{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0 902 198 84 X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf}} 6 : 1886 births|1969 deaths|People from Cambuslang|Alumni of the University of Edinburgh|British mathematicians|Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |
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