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THE Senior Wrangler for the present year is Mr. Robert Rumey Webb, son of the late Mr. Thomas Webb, of Monmouth. He was educated under the Rev. C. M. Roberts, M. A. (St. John's College, Cambridge), at the Monmouth Grammar School, and entered at St. John's College ia October 1868, having previously obtainted a Somerset Exhibition by open com petition. Mr. Webb's college tutor was Mr. J. E. Sandys; his private tutor Mr. Routh, of St. Peter's. Mr. Horace Lamb the Second Wrangler, was born at Stockport, in November 1849, was educated at the Stockport Grammar School, and for a short time studied at Owens College, Manchester. In the year 1868 he gamed a minor scholarship at Trinity College, and in 1870 was elected to a Foundation Scholarship. He was placed in the first class in the Friest B. A. Mathematical Honour Examination in the University of London in 1870; and in the succeeding year gained the Sheepshanks Astronomical Exhibition at Trinity College. His college tutor was Mr. Prior; private tutor, Mr. Routh, of St. Peter's Mr. Juhn Bascombe Lock, the Third Wrangler, son of Mr. Joseph Luck, of Dorchester, was educated at the Bristol Grammar School. In the Easter Term ot 1868 he obtained an open Mathematical Scholarship at Caius College, where he obtained a Foundation Scholarship in May. Mr. Routh was his private tutor, and Mr. N. M. Ferrers his college tutor.

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Notes . Nature 5, 271–273 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005271a0

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