William Allen Whitworth was an English mathematician and a priest in the Church of England, born in Runcorn on 1 February 1840. He was schooled at the Sandicroft School in Northwich and at St John's College, Cambridge, earning a B.A. in 1862 as 16th Wrangler, taught at the Portarlington School and the Rossall School, and was a professor of mathematics at Queen's College in Liverpool from 1862 to 1864. He became the founding editor in chief of the Messenger of Mathematics, and his most famous mathematical publication is the book Choice and Chance: An Elementary Treatise on Permutations, Combinations, and Probability, first published in 1867. He died on 12 March 1905.
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Whitworth was born in Runcorn; his father, William Whitworth, was a school headmaster, and he was the oldest of six siblings.
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