Miles Bland (11 October 1786 – 27 December 1867) was an English cleric and mathematician.

Life

Bland was educated at

St John's College, Cambridge St John's College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge founded by the House of Tudor, Tudor matriarch Lady Margaret Beaufort. In constitutional terms, the college is a charitable corpo ...

, where he graduated B.A. in 1808, as second wrangler and Smith's prizeman. He was then elected fellow (5 April 1808) and tutor of his college, and acted as moderator (1814, 1815, 1816) and public examiner (1817–1818) in mathematics. Bland became rector of

Lilley, Hertfordshire Lilley is a small village and civil parish situated between Hitchin and Luton in Hertfordshire, England. Lilley stands on high ground: nearby Telegraph Hill is just over 600 feet above sea level. The church, rebuilt in the 19th century, contai ...

, in 1823, and a prebendary of

Wells Cathedral Wells Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Wells, Somerset, England, dedicated to St Andrew the Apostle. It is the seat of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, whose cathedra it holds as mother church of the Diocese of Bath and Wells. Built as a ...

in 1826, when he proceeded D.D. He was a fellow of the

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

, of the

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, and of the

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. He died 27 December 1867 in

Ramsgate Ramsgate is a seaside resort, seaside town in the district of Thanet District, Thanet in east Kent, England. It was one of the great English seaside towns of the 19th century. In 2001 it had a population of about 40,000. In 2011, according to t ...

, Kent.

Works

Bland's main works were: * ''Geometrical Problems . . . from the first six books of Euclid . . . with the elements of Plane Trigonometry'', Cambridge, 1819, 2nd edit. 1821, 3rd edit. 1827. * ''Algebraical Problems'', a schoolbook, first published in 1812, 9th edit. 1849. * ''The Elements of Hydrostatics'', 1824, 1827. * ''Annotations on the Historical Books of the New Testament''; vol. i. St. Matthew's Gospel (1828), vol. ii. St. Mark's Gospel (1828), Mechanical and Philosophical Problems,' 1830.

Notes

Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Bland, Miles 1786 births 1867 deaths 19th-century English Anglican priests Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society