John Blissard

John Blissard (1803, Northampton, England – 1875) was a Church of England vicar and the father of mathematician and Church of England vicar John Charles Blissard who introduced the umbral calculus. The father earned his B.A at Cambridge and served for decades as vicar of St. Mary the Virgin Church in Berks at Hampstead-Norreys. The son earned his M.A. at Cambridge and served for decades as vicar in Warwick at St Augustine's Church, Edgbaston.

References

Bell, E. T. (1938), "The History of Blissard's Symbolic Method, with a Sketch of its Inventor's Life", The American Mathematical Monthly (Mathematical Association of America) 45 (7): 414–421, ISSN 0002-9890, JSTOR 2304144

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