HER A PATH

John ( son of a maltster ). b. Bristol 30 May 1790; a maltster with his cousin William Her a path at Bristol; conducted a mathematical school, taking candidates for the navy 1815; Royal Soc. refused to publish his paper “A mathematical enquiry into the causes of heat, gases, gravitation, .” 1820, which was then printed in Annals of Philosophy and a controversy with Royal Soc. ensued; mathematical tutor at Cranford, Middle sex 1820–32; removed to Kensington 1832; one of first advocates of atmospheric railway system 1839; part proprietor and manager Railway Magazine 1835, called The Railway magazine and Annals of Science 1836–39, then Her a path’s Railway Journal , became sole proprietor; printed numerous mathematical papers; author of Mathematical physics 2 vols. 1847. d. Catford bridge, Lewisham, Kent 24 Feb. 1868. G.M. April 1868 pp. 544–5; Her a path’s Railway Journal 29 Feb. 1868 p. 234.