Miles Bland

Miles Bland (1786 to 1867) was an English cleric and mathematician. He was educated at Sedbergh School and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1808 as second wrangler and Smith's prizeman, and he was then elected a fellow and tutor of his college. He acted as moderator in 1814, 1815 and 1816 and as public examiner in mathematics in 1817 and 1818. In 1823 he became rector of Lilley in Hertfordshire and in 1826 a prebendary of Wells Cathedral. His main works include Geometrical Problems from the first six books of Euclid with the elements of plane trigonometry (first published in 1819), Algebraical Problems, a schoolbook first published in 1812, and The Elements of Hydrostatics (1824). He was a fellow of the Royal Society, the Society of Antiquaries of London and the Royal Astronomical Society, and he died in Ramsgate in 1867.