Thomas Oliver Harding
Senior Wrangler at Cambridge; schoolmaster
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Thomas Oliver Harding (5 January 1850 – 17 October 1896)[2] was Senior Wrangler at Cambridge University in 1873.
Harding was the son of the Reverend Thomas Harding, a Wesleyan minister, of Whitehaven.[3] He received his early education at Kingswood Wesleyan School near Bath,[1] followed by studies at King's College, London, and then at Trinity College, Cambridge where he took the Mathematical Tripos.[4] The College awarded him the senior mathematical minor scholarship, and elected him to a foundation scholarship in 1871.[1] He was a first-class prizeman in 1870, 1871 and 1872, graduating as Senior Wrangler in 1873[1] and receiving his MA in 1876.[4]
Harding was elected to the Cambridge Apostles in 1872, and as an undergraduate was a keen oarsman and swimmer.[5] He was also elected President of the Cambridge Union.[2] After graduation he became a schoolmaster at Marlborough College,[4] and (according to one source) a barrister.[6]
He died in 1896.[6]