Background
COTTERILL, James Henry was born on November 2, 1836 in Norfolk. Youngest son of late Reverend Joseph Cotterill, Blakeney.
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James Henry COTTERILL
James Henry COTTERILL, British Professor of Applied Mechanics. Fellow of the Royal Society 1878.
Education
Studied at Brighton College. Apprenticed to Messrs. Fairbairn and Company, engineers.
Subsequently at St. John’s College Cambridge. Master of Arts Cambridge 1866.
Career
Lecturer (1866) and Vice-Principal (1870) of the former Royal School of Naval Architecture, South Kensington. Professor of Applied Mechanics at Royal Naval College Greenwich, 1873. Retired September 1897.
Membership
Fellow of the Royal Society 1878. Club: Savile.
Connections
- Father:
- Joseph Cotterill
