About Sydney Holgate
Lived 1918 – 2003 (aged 84). Sydney Holgate was a mathematician.
Sidney Holgate, (9 September 1918 – 17 May 2003) was a British mathematician and academic administrator.
Biography Holgate was born on 9 September 1918 in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, England. He was also President of the Durham Union for Michaelmas term of 1940. He graduated with a first class honours Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1940. He remained at Durham to train as a teacher and competed the Diploma in the Theory and Practice of Teaching (DThPT) in 1941. He retired in September 1980, and was succeeded as master of Grey College by Eric Halladay.
In addition to his full-time work at Durham University, Holgate was involved with the Open University (OU) from its foundation until his retirement.
Holgate married Isabel "Belle" Armorey in 1942.
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British mathematician and academic (*1918 – †2003)
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