Daniel Cresswell

Daniel Cresswell was a British clergyman and mathematician, born at Wakefield in 1776 and died at Enfield on 21 March 1844. The son of a Daniel Cresswell who had lived near Wakefield in Yorkshire, he was educated at the grammar school in Wakefield and at Hull and went on to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow, took his B.A. in 1797 and his M.A. in 1800 and received a doctorate of divinity by royal letters in 1823. He lived at the university for many years and took private pupils. In December 1822 he was presented to the vicarage of Enfield, one of the most valuable livings in his college's gift; the following year he became a justice of the peace for Middlesex and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. His publications include The Elements of Linear Perspective of 1811 and a Cambridge translation of Giuseppe Venturoli's Elements of Mechanics, issued in 1822 with a second edition in 1823.