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Thomas Hewitt Key, FRS (20 March 1799 – 29 November 1875) was an English classical scholar.

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Thomas Hewitt Key

(1799-1875)

Thomas Hewitt Key was born in London on 20 March 1799. He was the youngest son of a London physician, and half-brother of Charles Aston Key, an eminent surgeon. Key was sent to the Rev. Samuel Dewe's School at Buntingford in Hertfordshire, where he remained for nearly ten years. From there, he went to St. John's College, Cambridge, but moved to Trinity College after obtaining a scholarship. He took his degree in 1821 and was nineteenth wrangler on the Mathematical Tripos. Key was initially inclined to study law but, in accordance with his father's wishes, he began to prepare for the medical profession. He studied for nearly two years at Guy's Hospital in London, but in the summer of 1824, an agent from the State of Virginia came to England to choose four professors for the new University of Virginia and invited Key to accept the professorship of mathematics. (His relatively high score on the Tripos, was presumably viewed as sufficient to qualify him for the post.) Although Key had already opted to withdraw from the pursuit of science, h

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Thomas Hewitt Key

19th-century English classicist

For other people named Thomas Key, see Thomas Key (disambiguation).

Thomas Hewitt Key, FRS (20 March 1799 – 29 November 1875) was an Englishclassical scholar.^[1]

Life

He was born in London and educated at St John's and Trinity Colleges, Cambridge, and graduated 19th wrangler in 1821.^[2] From 1825 to 1827 he was the founding professor of Pure mathematics in the University of Virginia; Key owned at least one slave during his time there.^[3] After his return to England was appointed in 1828 professor of Latin in the newly founded University of London.

In 1832 he became joint headmaster of the school founded in connection with that institution (the University College School); in 1842 he resigned the professorship of Latin, and took up that of comparative grammar, together with the undivided headmastership of the school. These two posts he held until his death. A few years before his death, he also took the position of secretary to the College of Preceptors in London (lat

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Born

20 January 1920
Everett, Snohomish, Washington, USA

Died

21 June 1999
Seattle, Washington, USA

Summary

Edwin Hewitt made fundamental contributions to functional analysis, measure theory, and topology as well as Diophantine approximation, the structure of semigroups and abstract harmonic analysis. He is well-known for his discovery, in collaboration with Leonard Jimmie Savage, of the Hewitt-Savage zero-one law.

Biography

Edwin Hewitt was the son of Irenaeus Prime Hewitt (1879-1961) and Margaret Guthrie (1889-1946). Irenaeus Hewitt, born in Lexington, Dawson, Nebraska to Thomas Jefferson Hewitt (1837-1886) and Fanny Augusta Rockwood (1842-1915) on 5 December 1879, was a Navy Supply Officer at Puget Sound Naval Yard who married Margaret Guthrie in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska on 16 February 1915. Puget Sound Naval Yard had been established in 1891 and, during World War I, it constructed many ships to assist in the war such as submarines, minesweepers, tugs and ships designed to search for enemy submarines. He was a graduate of the Washington law c