Thomas Luby
Thomas Luby was an Irish mathematician.
Early life and education
Thomas Luby was born at Clonmel, County Tipperary, in 1800. He was descended from a Huguenot family which fled from France in 1685 and settled in Canterbury. His father, John Luby, married Eleanor Fogarty, of the old Irish family of Castle Fogarty. He entered Trinity College Dublin as a sizar in 1817, obtaining a List of scholars of [Trinity College Dublin|scholarship] in 1819. He graduated B.A. in 1821, and was awarded the degrees of M.A. in 1825 and D.D. in 1840.Academic career
Elected to a junior fellowship in 1831, he was co-opted senior fellow in 1847. Among the various college offices filled by him were those of university preacher, censor, junior dean, bursar, senior dean, and senior lecturer, and mathematical examiner in the school of civil engineering. He served as Donegall Lecturer in Mathematics between 1832 and 1847, and as Regius [Professor of Greek (Dublin)|Regius Professor of Greek] between 1852 and 1855.His popularity as a college tutor was unexampled. He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy, to which he presented the autograph of Charles Wolfe's "Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna", and he wrote for college use An Introductory Treatise on Physical Astronomy, and The Elements of Plane Trigonometry. He also edited John [Brinkley (astronomer)|John Brinkley]'s Astronomy, and was associated with W. R. Hamilton in many of his publications.
Personal life
He married first Mary Anne Wetherall, niece of General Sir Frederick Wetherall, K.C.B., and secondly Jane Rathborne of Dunsina, and had six sons and four daughters. He was the uncle of the Irish nationalist revolutionary Thomas Clarke Luby.He died in Dublin on 12 June 1870, and was buried at Aberystwyth.
Attribution
Category:1870 deaths
Category:Classical scholars of Trinity College Dublin
Category:Irish classical scholars
Category:Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
Category:Scholars of Trinity College Dublin
Category:19th-century Irish mathematicians