Burkill
Burkill is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Albert Burkill (1839–1913), British businessman *John Charles Burkill (1900–1993), English mathematician *Humphrey Morrison Burkill (1914–2006), botanist *Isaac Henry Burkill Isaac Henry Burkill (18 May 1870 – 8 March 1965) was an English botanist who worked in India and in the Straits Settlements (present day Singapore). He worked primarily in economic botany but published extensively on plant biology, ethno-botany ...

Albert Burkill
Albert Robson Burkill was the Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council in from 1897 to 1898. Biography Burkill was born in Louth, Lincolnshire in 1839, the son of John Burkill. Burkill moved to Shanghai in the early 1866. He joined the staff of Glover, Dow & Co and some years later went into business on his own account. In 1877, he formed Cromie and Burkill with Mr Cromie and continued in partnership until 1895. In that year he formed A.R. Burkill & Sons with his sons C.R. and A.W. Burkill. He retired from business in 1898 and returned to England. A.R. Burkill & Sons (HK) Co Ltd continues to operate in Hong Kong. Burkill was also one of the founders of the Shanghai Land Investment Company. He.was a member of the Committee of the China Association and was a Steward of the Shanghai Race Club. Burkill was elected to and became chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council in May 1897 following the en masse resignation of the previous council as a result of the "wheelbarro ...
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Humphrey Morrison Burkill
Humphrey Morrison Burkill OBE (8 December 1914 - 12 July 2006), was a director of the Singapore Botanic Gardens from 1957-1969. Early life and education Burkill was born to Isaac Henry Burkill and Ethel Maud Morrison on 8 December 1914 in the Director’s House on the grounds of the gardens of the Singapore Botanic Gardens. When Burkill was four, he was put in the care of a family from Yorkshire, and attended a preparatory school when he was eight. He attended Repton School when he was thirteen, and later attended Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He studied in the University of Cambridge and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1936. He received his postgraduate degree in crop husbandry in 1939. Career After getting a job from Dunlop Malayan Estates, Burkill returned to British Malaya to become a rubber planter, and learnt Malay and Tamil, which was expected of him, as well as Telugu and Thai. He later joined the Federated Malay States Volunteer Force. As the Japanese invad ...
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John Charles Burkill
John Charles Burkill (1 February 1900, Holt, Norfolk, England – 6 April 1993, Sheffield, England) was an English mathematician who worked on analysis and introduced the Burkill integral. He was educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Burkill was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1953. In 1948, Burkill won the Adams Prize. He was Master of Peterhouse until 1973. His doctoral students include Frederick Gehring Frederick William Gehring (7 August 1925 – 29 May 2012) was an American mathematician who worked in the area of complex analysis (quasi-conformal mappings). Personal life Both of Fred Gehring's parents graduated from the University o .... Selected publications * The Lebesgue Integral, Cambridge University Press 1952004 pbk edition* The Theory of ordinary differential equations, Interscience, Oliver and Boyd 1956 * Mathematical Scholarship Problems, with H. M. Cundy, Cambridge University Press 1961 * First course in mathematic ...
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