Richard Tetley Glazebrook. 1854-1935

Richard Tetley Glazebrook was born at West Derby, Liverpool, on 18 September, 1854. He was the eldest son of Nicholas Smith Glazebrook, M.R.C.S., of West Derby, and Sarah, daughter of Richard Tetley, of Liverpool. Both families were well known in Liverpool, and members of both attained distinction. Glazebrook’s brother, W. R. Glazebrook, became a director of Martin’s Bank and other companies, and among his first cousins were Canon M. G. Glazebrook, from 1891 to 1905 headmaster of Clifton College, and subsequently Canon of Ely, and Hugh de T. Glazebrook, the portrait painter. Glazebrook was educated at Dulwich College and, from 1870, at Liverpool College. In 1872, at the age of 18, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1875 he was elected a Major Scholar. As an undergraduate, he was found by the other occupants of the same staircase a very quiet and unobtrusive neighbour. He took his B.A. degree as fifth wrangler in 1876,* and his M.A. in 1879. In 1877 he was made a Fellow o f the College. From 1881-95 he was a College lecturer in mathematics and physics, and from 1884 to 1897 he was also a University lecturer in mathematics. In 1895 he was made Senior Bursar of the College, and he served in this capacity until 1898.