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Frank Morley
Times obituary
Our New York Correspondent telegraphs that Dr. Frank Morley, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University, died on Sunday night at his home in Baltimore at the age of 77.
Born at Woodbridge, Suffolk, he was educated there and at King's College, Cambridge, of which he was a scholar and prizeman. He was placed in the first class in the Mathematical Tripos, Parts I and II, 1883, and in Division II, Part III, 1884.
After taking his degree, he was a mathematical master at Bath College from 1884 to 1887. He then went to America as an instructor, later professor, of mathematics at Haverford College, Pennsylvania. In 1900, he became Professor of Mathematics at Johns Hopkins. He was Sc.D of Cambridge, a research associate of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and an ex-president of the American Mathematical Society. He married in 1899 Lilian Janet Bird of Hayward's Heath, Sussex. They had three sons, all of whom became Rhodes scholars from Maryland—namely, Christopher, now a novelist, Felix, editor of the Washington Post, and Dr. Frank V. Morley, a director of the publishing firm Faber and Faber. In his youth, Morley was a chess player of exceptional ability. He was on the Cambridge University chess team from 1880 to 1884 and had the distinction of once beating Dr. Lasker when Lasker was champion of the world.
Our New York Correspondent telegraphs that Dr. Frank Morley, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University, died on Sunday night at his home in Baltimore at the age of 77.
Born at Woodbridge, Suffolk, he was educated there and at King's College, Cambridge, of which he was a scholar and prizeman. He was placed in the first class in the Mathematical Tripos, Parts I and II, 1883, and in Division II, Part III, 1884.
After taking his degree, he was a mathematical master at Bath College from 1884 to 1887. He then went to America as an instructor, later professor, of mathematics at Haverford College, Pennsylvania. In 1900, he became Professor of Mathematics at Johns Hopkins. He was Sc.D of Cambridge, a research associate of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and an ex-president of the American Mathematical Society. He married in 1899 Lilian Janet Bird of Hayward's Heath, Sussex. They had three sons, all of whom became Rhodes scholars from Maryland—namely, Christopher, now a novelist, Felix, editor of the Washington Post, and Dr. Frank V. Morley, a director of the publishing firm Faber and Faber. In his youth, Morley was a chess player of exceptional ability. He was on the Cambridge University chess team from 1880 to 1884 and had the distinction of once beating Dr. Lasker when Lasker was champion of the world.
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