Education
Parkinson went up to Street John"s College, Cambridge as a sizar in 1841 and graduated as Senior Wrangler in 1845, beating William Thomson.
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Stephen Parkinson
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He was elected to a Fellowship at Street John"s in the same year. He was ordained in 1851, made Bachelor's Degree in 1855 and Doctor of Divinity in 1869. He was College lecturer in mathematics, tutor and President (1865-1889).
He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1870.
Parkinson was the author of two mathematical textbooks, Elementary Treatise on Mechanics (1855) and A Treatise on Optics (1859).
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Royal Society.
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January 2, 1889 (aged 65) -
Nationality
British