James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, born in Lewisham in 1848 and died in Cambridge in 1928, was a prominent English mathematician and astronomer. He was the son of the astronomer James Glaisher, studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, finishing as second wrangler in 1871, and became a fellow of the college and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1875. He edited the Messenger of Mathematics and the Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, published more than four hundred articles on astronomy, special functions and number theory, and twice served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society. His name is attached to Glaisher's theorem on integer partitions and to the Glaisher-Kinkelin constant. He received the De Morgan Medal in 1908 and the Sylvester Medal in 1913, and he bequeathed his collections of English pottery and valentines to the Fitzwilliam Museum.