biography
pronunciation:
[waywel]
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| (1794–1866)
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| biography:
| Scholar, born in Lancaster, Lancashire, NW England, UK. He was a fellow and tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge, and became professor of mineralogy at Cambridge (1828–38), then of moral theology (1838–55). He was made Master of Trinity in 1841, and Vice-Chancellor of the university in 1855. His works include History of the Inductive Sciences (1837), Elements of Morality (1855), and other writings on the tides, electricity, and magnetism, besides several translations. |
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