Education
John Colson was educated at Lichfield School before becoming an undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford, though he did not take a degree there.
mathematician university professor
John Colson was educated at Lichfield School before becoming an undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford, though he did not take a degree there.
He became a schoolmaster at Sir Joseph Williamson"s Mathematical School in Rochester, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1713. He was Vicar of Chalk, Kent from 1724 to 1740. He relocated to Cambridge and lectured at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
From 1739 to 1760 he was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.
He was also Rector of Lockington, Yorkshire.
Royal Society.
