[Bell Historians] Re: Benjamin Annable

[Richard Smith]

nitramwe wrote:

> As a footnote (p.30) of his History of the College Youths, 
> Trollope wrote: "It has often been said that Annable was a 
> professor of nathematics at Cambridge, but this is quite 
> incorrect."

Trollope is correct to say that.  I can see no chance 
whatsoever that he was ever a Cambridge professor of 
mathematics.  For a start, he is not listed in Alumni 
Cantabrigiensis.  More seriosuly, at the time, Cambridge's 
only chair in mathematics was the Lucasian Professorship 
which is and always has been one of the world's most 
prestigious academic posts.  It seems inconceivable that 
there might have been an extra holder of this post in the 
18th century holder of this post that has gone unrecorded.

RAS