Trevor West

Timothy Trevor West (8 May 1938 – 30 October 2012) was an Irish mathematician, academic and politician.

Biography He was born on 8 May 1938 in County Cork, the eldest of four sons of Timothy Roberts West, headmaster of Midleton College, and Dorothy West (née McNeill).

He was educated at Midleton College, and The High School, Dublin. West was a graduate of Trinity College Dublin (TCD), where he was elected a scholar, and of the University of Cambridge. In 1970 he was elected a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and was also an associate professor of mathematics, Junior Dean, and a great supporter of sport at Trinity. He was also a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.

On 19 November 1970, West was elected to Seanad Éireann, at a by-election for the Dublin University constituency caused by the death of Owen Sheehy-Skeffington.

He was the author of The Bold Collegians, a history of sport in Trinity College,

Memorials An event was held in his memory at the Royal Irish Academy in December 2013 where a memorial issue of the Mathematical Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy was presented.

A book of essays celebrating his life, Trevor West : The Bold Collegian, was published in October 2016.

On 14 September 2018, a new sports hall in Midleton College dedicated to the memory of Trevor West was opened by the Provost of Trinity College, Patrick Prendergast.

Publications Trevor West, with Rien Kaashoek, Locally compact semi-algebras : with applications to spectral theory of positive operators (Amsterdam; London: North-Holland Publishing Co., 1974) Trevor West, The Bold Collegians. The Development of Sport in Trinity College Dublin (Dublin, 1991) Trevor West, Midleton College, 1696–1996: A Tercentenary History (Midleton: Midleton College, 1996)