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Thomas Postlethwaite

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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
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He is mainly remembered for depriving the Cambridge classicist
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of his income, apparently in an attempt to force him to take
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Thomas Postlethwaite was the son of Richard Postlethwaite of
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Thomas Postlethwaite (MP)

Milnthorpe
Westmorland
Bath, Somerset
Trinity College, Cambridge
Mathematician
Trinity College, Cambridge
Stephen Whisson
Thomas Jones
Trinity College, Cambridge
Crooklands
Milnthorpe
Westmorland
St Bees School
sizar
Hamerton
Bath Abbey
Richard Porson
Holy Orders


"Postlethwaite, Thomas (PSTT749T)"
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Thomas Postlethwaite
Mathematics Genealogy Project
The Master of Trinity
Trinity College, Cambridge
John Hinchcliffe
Master of Trinity College, Cambridge

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