Stephen Parkinson (mathematician)

Born in Keighley, West Yorkshire, Parkinson went up to St John's College, Cambridge, as a sizar in 1841 and graduated as Senior Wrangler in 1845, beating William Thomson (later to become Lord Kelvin). He was elected to a Fellowship at St John's in the same year. He was ordained in 1851, made BD in 1855 and DD in 1869.^[1]

He was College lecturer in mathematics, tutor and President (1865–89). He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1870.

Parkinson was the author of two mathematical textbooks, Elementary Treatise on Mechanics (1855) and A Treatise on Optics (1859).

• Papers of Stephen Parkinson
• Proceedings of the Royal Society 45 (1888–89) pp.i-iii.

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