Goodeve, Thomas Minchin

Title

Prof

First name(s)

Thomas Minchin

Surname

Goodeve

Position(s) held at King's College London

• Lecturer of Mathematics (1846-1856)
• Professor of Manufacturing Art and Machinery (1852-1860)
• Professor of Natural Philosophy (1854-1860)
• Evening Class Lecturer of Mathematics (1850)
• Member of College Council (1884-1892)

Education & professional details

School, college and/or university attended ^Ref: *1

• Merchant Taylor's School
• King's College London

Qualifications ^Ref: *5

• B.A. (1843)
• M.A. (1846)

Position(s) held (non King's College London) ^Ref: *1

• First Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College London
• Prof. of Astronomy at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
• Prof.of mathematics and applied mechanics at the Royal School of Mines, South Kensington (1869-)
• Lecturer in Mechanics and Mathematics at the Royal College of Science (-1894) 
• Professor of Applied Mathematics and Physics at the R.M. Academy, Woolwich

Professional activities ^{Refs: *1 *2}

• Adm.at the Inner Temple 6th January 1840, called to Bar 27th January 1862, on the South Eastern Circuit, had a considerable practice in patent cases.
• The Engineering Society at King’s College London was re-established in 1857 by Professor Goodeve following its dissolution and the founding of a Shakespearean Reading Society in its place by, then student, W S Gilbert

Publications ^Ref: *3

• Principles of Mechanics
• The Elements of Mechanism
• (as editor) Abstract of reported cases relating to letters patent for inventions... to... 1883
• A Manual of Mechanics: An Elementary Text-Book, etc (London: Longmans & Co., 1886)
• Text-Book on the Steam Engine (London: Crosby Lockwood & Co., 1879 (2^nd Edition)
• Text-Books of Science, Adapted for the use of Artisans, etc. (London, 1870)

Personal details

Date of birth ^Ref: *1

26th November 1820

Place of birth ^Ref: *1

Greatham, Hampshire

Date of death ^Ref: *1

10th February 1902

Place of death ^Ref: *1

Hitchin

Family details ^Ref: *1

Son of John Goodeve and Elisa Minchin; siblings: Charles, Henry, Eliza Marie, Joseph; 1st marriage spouse unknown; married Geraldine Sophia Weigall on 16th June 1873; children: Mabel Caroline andThomas Edward