Edward Bromhead

Sir Edward Ffrench Bromhead ( born March 26, 1789 † March 14, 1855 ) was a British landowner and promoter of mathematics. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Bromhead ".

Bromhead came from a wealthy landowner family in Lincolnshire. He inherited the title of baron in 1822 by his father. He studied at the University of Glasgow and the University of Cambridge ( Gonville and Caius College) to start then at the Inner Temple in London his law education. In 1817 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. Later he returned to Lincolnshire back to his country seat Thurlby Hall at Lincoln. He was High Steward of Lincoln.

Bromhead was in Cambridge, where he studied mathematics, a founder of the Analytical Society with John Herschel, George Peacock and Charles Babbage, with whom he was a close friend. The company dedicated to the cultivation of mathematics and was a forerunner of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. He is a supporter of the essentially self-taught trained mathematician ( and miller ) known George Green and provided for the publication of his works, among others, by the Cambridge Philosophical Society, and that Green was able to study from 1833 in Cambridge at the advanced age of 40 years.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Source

• John Debrett, The Baronetage of England, 1839
• D. Cannell, George Green pdf,