About Thomas Postlethwaite
Lived 1731 – 1798 (aged 66–67). Thomas Postlethwaite was an English cleric and mathematician.
Thomas Postlethwaite (1731 – 4 May 1798) was an English clergyman and Cambridge fellow, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1789 to 1798.
Biography Thomas Postlethwaite was the son of Richard Postlethwaite of Crooklands, near Milnthorpe, Westmorland. He attended St Bees School before entering Trinity College, Cambridge as a sizar in 1749. Graduating BA in 1753, he became a fellow of Trinity in 1755. He was Barnaby lecturer in mathematics in 1758. Ordained in 1756, he was from 1774 until his death Rector of Hamerton. He was appointed Master of Trinity in 1789, and in 1791 served as university Vice-Chancellor.
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Thomas Postlethwaite was born in 1731 in Lancashire.
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Thomas Postlethwaite died on 4 May 1798 in Bath.
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