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HAROLD NEWBOURT who died on August 11 at the age of fifty-two after short illness, was educated at Kingswood School and served in the First World War as an artillery officer on the Italian front. He took up his mathematical scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford, after. the War ; his undergraduate career, which included the sharing of the junior mathematical scholarship with E. C. Titchmarsh, was all that was expected of an able and gifted mathematician. Immediately after taking finals he succeeded his tutor, J. W. Russell, as lecturer at St. John's, and in 1925 was appointed fellow and tutor at Merton.
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THOMPSON, J. Mr. H. O. Newboult. Nature 164, 474–475 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164474b0
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