ATWOOD, GEORGE, eldest son of Rev. Thomas Atwood, Curate, St. Clement’s Danes, London, subsequently Curate and Lecturer, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, and Isabella, dau. of J[ohn ?] Sells, Inglesham, Wilts. ; bapt. 15 Oct 1745; in school list 1754; KS (aged 13) 1759; Capt. of the School 1764; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1765, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1765, scholar 2 May 1766, matr. Lent 1766; 3rd Wrangler and 1st Smith’s Prizeman 1769; BA 1769; Member’s (second) prize for Middle Bachelors 1770; MA 1772; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1770, Major Fellow 8 Jul 1772, Assistant Tutor 1773-9; FRS 13 June 1776; Copley Medal 1796; one of the patent Searchers of the Customs from 1784; Inspector of Tontine Certificates 21 Jun 1790; a distinguished mathematician to whom Pitt was indebted for services of great value; author, A treatise on the rectilinear motion and rotation of bodies, 1784, and other works; d. unm. Jul 1807. DNB.
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