Isaac MilnerFRS (11 January 1750 – 1 April 1820) was a mathematician, an inventor, the President of Queens' College, Cambridge and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.[1]
He was instrumental in the 1785 religious conversion of William Wilberforce and helped him through many trials and was a great supporter of the abolitionists' campaign against the slave trade, steeling Wilberforce with his assurance before the 1789 parliamentary debate:
If you carry this point in your whole life, that life will be better spent than in being prime minister of many years.[2]
He was also a natural philosopher and the Dean of Carlisle.
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IsaacMilner FRS (11 January 1750 – 1 April 1820) was a mathematician, an inventor, the President of Queens' College, Cambridge and Lucasian Professor...
Since its establishment, the professorship has been held by, among others, Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, George Stokes, Joseph Larmor, Paul Dirac, and Stephen...
The first holder of the position was the mathematician and chemist IsaacMilner, elected to the post in 1783. One result of the bequest was that a building...
Wilberforce embarked upon a tour of Europe with his mother, sister and IsaacMilner, the younger brother of his former headmaster. They visited the French...
Polkinghorne, Frank Ramsey, Lord Rayleigh (John Strutt), Sir George Stokes, Isaac Todhunter, Sir Gilbert Walker, and James H. Wilkinson. Senior Wranglers...
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won the Copley Medal in 1780, before the period dealt with here ended. IsaacMilner (1750–1820): Lucasian Professor of Mathematics known for work on an important...
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(1745), dedicated to Isaac Watts, was often reprinted and became widely influential. It was through reading it, together with IsaacMilner, that William Wilberforce...
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included William Wilberforce, William Pitt the Younger, George Tomline, IsaacMilner, John Mortlock, Robert Robinson and Benjamin Flower. "Cambridge was one...
part in a celebrated Divinity Act (formal theological disputation) with IsaacMilner. As a young Fellow Coulthurst supported the abolitionist cause in Cambridge...
him into conflict with the Evangelicals, such as Charles Simeon and IsaacMilner. In 1807 he resigned his fellowship at St John's on being elected as...
1744-1788 Title President of Queens' College Predecessor William Sedgwick Successor IsaacMilner Children Annabella Plumptre Anne Plumptre James Plumptre...
Farmer Francis Barnes William Pearce William Craven Thomas Postlethwaite IsaacMilner William Colman Lowther Yates Philip Douglas Richard Fisher Belward Robert...
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