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SIR THOMAS LITTLE HEATH, who died on March 16, was one of the most learned and industrious scholars of our time. He was born on October 5, 1861, the third son of Mr. Samuel Heath of Thornton Curtis in Lincolnshire. Sent to school at Clifton College, Heath went on with a foundation scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge; and there, reading for double honours, he took a first in both parts of the Classical Tripos, and was twelfth Wrangler in 1882. Those years in Trinity are pleasant to look back upon. Henry Jackson was at his best; Acton, Glaisher and Robertson Smith intensified the atmosphere of learning; William Wyse, ?. ?. Turner, Henry Head and Alfred North Whitehead were among the undergraduates; James Gow was writing his “History of Mathematics”—a “convenient compilation”, as G. J. Allman called it, but good enough to start Heath on the work of his life. He won his Trinity fellowship in 1885, as his eldest brother, R. S. Heath, afterwards professor of mathematics in Birmingham, had done two years before; and many years later the College awarded him its honorary fellowship, the most prized of all his many honours.
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THOMPSON, D. Sir Thomas Heath, K,C.B., F.R.S., F.B.A. Nature 145, 578–579 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145578a0
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