Background
JERVIS-Smith, Frederick J. was born on April 2, 1848 in Taunton. Son of Reverend Prebendary F. J. Smith, Master of Arts.
JERVIS-Smith, Frederick J. was born on April 2, 1848 in Taunton. Son of Reverend Prebendary F. J. Smith, Master of Arts.
Studied at Pembroke College Oxford (Bachelor of Arts Pemb. College, Master of Arts Trinity College). Honourable Master of Arts ad eundem Adelaide University.
Master of Arts.
Vicar of Saint John's, Taunton, 18S4-86. Patron of the Livings of Saint John's and Saint Andrew’s Churches, Taunton. Member of Commander on Explosions, Home Office, 1895-1896.
Received Medal French Exhibition for Dynamometer.
Silver medal Inventions Exhibitions for Integrator. Humane Societies’ medal for Saving Life.
Inventor of several forms of dynamometers, integrators, chronographs, et cetera Appointed representative of the University of Oxford for the Tercentenary of Torricelli at Faenza, 1908.
Late University Lecturer in Mechanics. Millard Lecturer in Experimental Mechanics and Engineering, Trinity College, Oxford.
Fellow of the Royal Society. Club: Savile.