Thomas Galloway

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For the British politician see Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde.

Thomas Galloway (26 February 1796 - 1 November 1851) was a Scottish mathematician born in Symington, Lanarkshire. In 1812 he entered the University of Edinburgh, where he distinguished himself specially in mathematics. In 1823 he was appointed one of the teachers of mathematics at the military college of Sandhurst, and in 1833 he was appointed actuary to the Amicable Life Assurance Office, the oldest institution of that kind in London; in which situation he remained until his death in 1851. Galloway was a voluminous, though, for the most part, an anonymous writer. His most notable paper, On the Proper Motion of the Solar System, was published in the Philosophical Transactions of 1847. He contributed largely to the seventh edition of the Encyclopaedia, and also wrote several scientific papers for the Edinburgh Review and various scientific journals. His Encyclopaedia article was probably published separately.

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