William Tulloch Jeans

William Tulloch Jeans (1848-1907) was a British parliamentary journalist and author.

Career

Jeans was parliamentary correspondent for The Globe, and was widely known for and consulted on his knowledge of parliamentary principle.[1]

In their 1887 review of the first volume of The Lives of Electricians, The Spectator commented that, "Jeans has treated a subject always interesting in a pleasing and graceful way".[2]

Selected publications

Personal life

His wife came from Stockport. They lived in Brighton, then Tulse Hill and Clapham Park in London.[1]

He was the father of Sir James Hopwood Jeans OM FRS (1877-1946), physicist, astronomer and mathematician.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 E. A. Milne (12 September 2013). Sir James Jeans: A Biography. Cambridge University Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-107-62333-0. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  2. ↑ "Lives of the Electricians. By W. T. Jeans. (Whittaker and 0 Co.)". The Spectator. 3 December 1887. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  3. ↑ http://www.thenile.co.nz/books/William-Tulloch-Jeans/Creators-of-the-Age-of-Steel/9781108026925/


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