Prof. H. W. Lloyd Tanner, F.R.S.

Abstract

PROF. H. W. LLOYD TANNER, whose death on March 5 we announced with regret last week, was born at Burham, in Kent, on January 17, 1851. He received his school education at Bristol Grammar School, from which he proceeded to Jesus College, Oxford. At Oxford he came under the stimulating influence of Mr. John Griffiths, the mathematical. tutor of his college. After leaving Oxford he held some educational appointments until the year 1883, when the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire was founded at Cardiff. Of this college he was appointed Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy, and he occupied the chair at Cardiff until his resignation in 1909.