Francis Sowerby Macaulay, 1862-1937

Abstract

Francis Sowerby Macaulay, F. R. S. from 1928, was born 11 February, 1862, at Witney, twelve miles from Oxford, and died at Cambridge, 9 February , 1937. His father was the Rev. Samuel Macaulay , and the boy was sent to Kingswood School, Bath, from which, in 1879, he proceeded to St. John’s College, Cambridge. He was placed eighth in the Mathematical Tripos of June 1882, and seventh in the advanced part of this examination in January 1883. Colleagues in these examinations were W. Welsh (afterwards a distinguished mathe­matical tutor of Jesus College), Turner (afterwards Savilian Professor at Oxford), Carey (later Professor at Liverpool), and A. R. Johnson. A brother, familiarly known to his contemporaries at Cambridge in 1886 as “Macaulay of Caius”, was remarkable for his devotion to the theory of quaternions, and had a successful career as Professor of Mathematics in the antipodes.