Bewick Bridge (1767, Linton, Cambridgeshire – 15 May 1833, Cherry Hinton) was an English vicar and mathematical author.
In 1786, he was admitted as a sizar to study mathematics Peterhouse, Cambridge University, where he graduated as senior wrangler in 1790.[1][2]
In October 1790, he was ordained a deacon at Ely, and became a priest in 1792; in the same year he became a Fellow at Peterhouse, during which he spent time as both as college moderator and as proctor.[1] From 1806 until 1816, he was Professor of Mathematics at the East India Company College, Haileybury.[1] He wrote a number of mathematical texts:[2] his Algebra achieved international circulation.[3] He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.[1]
From 1816 until 1833, he was vicar of Cherry Hinton in Cambridge, where in 1818 he built the vicarage, and he founded the village school in 1832 (now a Church of England Infant School).[1] He died on 15 May, 1833, aged 66.[1][2] In September 2011 the Cherry Hinton Community Junior School will be named after Bewick, becoming Bewick Bridge Community Primary School.[4]