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THE death of Prof. A. M. Worthington at Oxford on December 5, after a short illness, will be deplored by many men of science and a large circle of students who came under his educational influence. Born in Manchester in 1852, Prof. Worthington was educated at Rugby and at Trinity College, Oxford, afterwards working at Owens College, Manchester, and at Berlin, in the laboratory of Prof. Helmholtz. From 1877 to 1879 he was headmaster of the Salt Schools, Shipley, and from 1880 to 1885 he was an assistant-master at Clifton. In 1887 he was appointed headmaster of H.M. Dockyard School at Portsmouth, where he first took a hand in the training of the students of naval engineering, then quartered on H.M.S. Marlborough. In 1887 he was transferred to Keyham, Devonport, as headmaster and professor of physics at the new Naval Engineering College, and in that post he remained for the next twenty years. In 1909, owing to the reduction in staff that became necessary at Key-ham, which was then being gradually closed down under the new scheme of naval education, Worthington was transferred to the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, as professor of physics, but owing to ill-health he retired in 1911. The main part of Worthington's life was thus spent at Key-ham, where he made a great success of the educational side, of which he had charge.
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Prof. A. M. Worthington, C.B., F.R.S. . Nature 98, 293–294 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098293b0
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