E. W. Middlemast

Middlemast was appointed Professor of the Madras Engineering College in September 1888 and served till March 1897, when he was appointed Principal of the Government Arts College, Rajahmundry.^[4][5] In July 1903, Middlemast was appointed Deputy Director of Public Instruction in the Madras Presidency.^[4] Middlemast was deputed to the Netherlands by the government in 1904, to review the education system in the country.^[6] In July 1905, he was appointed fellow of Madras University.^[7]

Middlemast was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the Presidency College, Madras in 1910,^[8] and served as its Principal in 1915.^[2][9] He also served as an Inspector of schools from 1910 to 1915. Middlemast was the President of the Indian Mathematical Society in 1915.^[10][11]

On 21 September 1911, Middlemast wrote a strong letter of recommendation for a then-unknown youth named Srinivasa Ramanujan, who was applying for the position of Clerk at the Madras Port Trust.^[2]

Edgar Middlemast died at Wrotham in Kent in July 1915.

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• Dauben, Joseph W.; Parikh, Rohit (2010), "Beginnings of modern mathematics in India" (PDF), Current Science, 99 (3): 300–322, archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2017, retrieved 11 October 2017