Henry Palin Gurney
British educationalist and mathematician
About Henry Palin Gurney
Lived 1847 – 1904 (aged 56). Henry Palin Gurney was a British educational theorist, mathematician, anglican priest and principal.
Henry Palin Gurney (1847 – 13 August 1904) was a partner with Walter Wren in Wren and Gurney, the London cramming college which successfully tutored candidates for the Civil Service.
Life The eldest son of Henry Gurney (son of James Gurney, of Grove House, Upper Holloway), and Eleanor, daughter of Richard Palin, of Artillery Place West, Finsbury, Gurney was born in 1847 in London. After schooling at the City of London School, Gurney went up to Clare College, Cambridge, graduating in 1870 in the mathematics tripos as the 14th wrangler and fourth in class in the natural sciences tripos. From 1870 to 1883 he was a fellow of Clare.
In 1871 Gurney was ordained as priest by Harold Browne, the bishop of Ely and took up the curacy of Rotherhithe. when he was elected principal of the Durham College of Science and elected to the chair in mathematics. Gurney was killed in an accident while climbing alone in Arolla on 13 August 1904.
Works Crystallography (1878)
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British educationalist and mathematician (1847–1904)
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Henry Palin Gurney was born on 7 September 1847 in London.
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Henry Palin Gurney died on 13 August 1904 in La Roussette.
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Henry Palin Gurney was an educational theorist, mathematician, anglican priest and principal.
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