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| Isaac Milner |
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| Born |
1750
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| Died |
1820, aged 70
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Isaac Milner, DD, FRS (1750 – 1820), was a mathematician, an inventor, the President of Queens' College, Cambridge and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.[1]
He was instrumental in the 1785 religious conversion of William Wilberforce and was also a great supporter of the Abolitionists campaign against the slave trade. He steeled Wilberforce with his assurance before the 1789 Parliamentary debate:
- "If you carry this point in your whole life, that life will be better spent than in being prime minister of many years".[2]
He was also a natural philosopher and the Dean of Carlisle.
[edit] References
- ^ Lucasian Chair
- ^ BBC Radio 4 In our Time, Feb 22 2007
