Miles Bland (11 October 1786 – 27 December 1867) was an English cleric and mathematician.

Life

Bland was educated at

Sedbergh School Sedbergh School is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school (English Private schools in the United Kingdom, private boarding school, boarding and day school, day school) in the town of Sedbergh in Cumbria, North West England. It comprise ...

and thereafter at

St John's College, Cambridge St John's College, formally the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge, is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded by the House of Tudor, Tudor matriarch L ...

, where he graduated B.A. in 1808, as second wrangler and Smith's prizeman. He was then elected fellow (5 April 1808) and tutor of his college, and acted as moderator (1814, 1815, 1816) and public examiner (1817–1818) in mathematics. Bland became rector of

Lilley, Hertfordshire Lilley is a village and civil parish in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It lies north-east of the centre of Luton, its post town, and west of Hitchin. The parish had a population of 384 at the 2021 United Kingdom cen ...

, in 1823, and a prebendary of

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in 1826, when he proceeded D.D. He was a fellow of the

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

, of the

Society of Antiquaries of London The Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL) is a learned society of historians and archaeologists in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1707, received its royal charter in 1751 and is a Charitable organization, registered charity. It is based ...

, and of the

Royal Astronomical Society The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is a learned society and charitable organisation, charity that encourages and promotes the study of astronomy, planetary science, solar-system science, geophysics and closely related branches of science. Its ...

. He died 27 December 1867 in

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, Kent.

Works

Bland's main works were: * ''Geometrical Problems . . . from the first six books of Euclid . . . with the elements of Plane Trigonometry'', Cambridge, 1819, 2nd edit. 1821, 3rd edit. 1827. * ''Algebraical Problems'', a schoolbook, first published in 1812, 9th edit. 1849. * ''The Elements of Hydrostatics'', 1824, 1827. * ''Annotations on the Historical Books of the New Testament''; vol. i. St. Matthew's Gospel (1828), vol. ii. St. Mark's Gospel (1828), Mechanical and Philosophical Problems,' 1830.

Notes

Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Bland, Miles 1786 births 1867 deaths 19th-century English Anglican priests Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society People educated at Sedbergh School