Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Whewell, William


Whewell, William, scholar Trinity Coll., Cambridge, 1815, 2nd wrangler, 2nd Smith's prizeman, and B.A. 1816, fellow 1817-41, M.A. 1819, tutor 1823-39 (adm. 'ad eundem ' 17 June, 1830), B.D. 1838, D.D. 1844, master 1841-66, F.R.S. 1820, professor of mineralogy 1828, professor of moral philosophy 1838-55, president of British Association 1841, author of the history of (1837), and of the philosophy of (1840) the inductive sciences, etc., etc., died 5 March, 1866.