Professor Sir Horace Lamb
Professor of mathematics
- Born
- 27 November 1849, Stockport (Cheshire), England
- Died
- 4 December 1934, Cambridge, England
- Sex
- Male
- Father
- John Lamb (cotton mill foreman)
- Mother
- Elizabeth Rangeley
- Married Elizabeth Foot (daughter of Simon Foot); father of Prof Ernest Horace Lamb (Prof of Engineering, ULond), Henry Taylor Lamb (RA, painter) and Sir Walter Rangeley Maitland Lamb
Degrees
| 1877 | Master of Arts (ad eundum gradum) | The University of Adelaide |
Career
- Cantab (BA 1872, MA 1875, LLD).
- FRS 1884.
- Mathematician.
- Prof of Mathematics, UAdel 1875-85.
- Prof of Mathematics, UManc 1885-1920.
- Knight bachelor 1931.