Education
University of Cambridge. Street John"s College.
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Thomas Gaskin
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After being educated at Sedbergh School between 1822-1827, he was admitted a sizar of Street John"s College, Cambridge in 1827. He was Second Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos in 1831, behind Samuel Earnshaw. He became a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1836, and of the Royal Society in 1839.
In 1840 Gaskin and his fellow examiner J. Bowstead unilaterally abolished the Tripos system of viva voce examinations in Latin, which had become an obsolete formality.
Gaskin spent the latter part of his career as a private coach, moving to Cheltenham in 1855.
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Royal Society.
