John Charles Burkill

John Charles Burkill (1900 to 1993) was an English mathematician who worked on analysis and introduced the Burkill integral. He was born in Holt, Norfolk, and educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he won the Smith's Prize and became a research fellow in 1922. Two years later he was appointed Professor of Pure Mathematics at Liverpool University, and in 1929 he returned to Cambridge as Reader in Mathematical Analysis, a fellow of Peterhouse rather than of Trinity. He won the Adams Prize in 1948, was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1953 and served as Master of Peterhouse from 1968 to 1973. His doctoral students included Frederick Gehring. His books include The Lebesgue Integral, The Theory of Ordinary Differential Equations and, with Harry Burkill, A Second Course in Mathematical Analysis. He and his wife Margareta arranged for hundreds of refugee children to come to Britain.