
Charles Watkins Merrifield
FRS (20 October 1827 – 1 January 1884,
Hove
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Originally a fishing village surrounded by open farmland, it grew rapidly in the 19th century in respon ...
) was a British mathematician.
For the
British Association
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's Section of Mechanical Science, he was in 1875 the Section's Vice-President at the Brighton meeting and then in 1876 the Section's President at the Glasgow meeting. He served on the British Association's committee given the task of reporting on Charles Babbage’s analytical machine. For the
London Mathematical Society
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, he served as Vice-President in 1876–1878, as President in 1878–1880, and as Treasurer in 1880–1882.
Charles was the eldest son of the author and artist
Mary Philadelphia Merrifield
Mary Philadelphia Merrifield (née Watkins; 15 April 1804 – 4 January 1889) was a British writer on art and fashion. She later became an algologist (an expert on seaweed).
Life
She was born Mary Philadelphia Watkins in Brompton, London in 18 ...
and brother of the barrister
Frederick Merrifield
Frederick Merrifield (1831 – 28 May 1924, Brighton) was an English barrister, entomologist and campaigner for women's suffrage.
Merrifield was a London attorney and clerk to the County Council of East Sussex.
An expert on Lepidoptera, he was ...
. His nieces were the classical scholar
Margaret Verrall
Margaret de Gaudrion Verrall (née Merrifield; 21 December 1857 – 2 July 1916) was a classical scholar and lecturer at Newnham College, Cambridge. Much of her life and research was concerned with the study of parapsychology, mainly in order to e ...
(nee Merrifield) and suffrage campaigner
Flora Merrifield
Flora (de Gaudrion) Merrifield (1859–1943, Brighton) was a leading British suffragist in Brighton who campaigned for the Women's suffrage, women's right to vote.
Family
Flora was the granddaughter of artist and author Mary Philadelphia Merrif ...
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Selected publications
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References
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19th-century English mathematicians
1827 births
1884 deaths
Fellows of the Royal Society
Presidents of the London Mathematical Society
Charles
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