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Adm. sizar (age 17) at TRINITY, Sept. 23, 1811. [Eldest] s. of John [master-carpenter] (and Elizabeth Bennison). B. [May 24, 1794], at Lancaster. School, Heversham. ' Matric. Michs. 1812; Chancellor's (English) medal, 1814; Scholar, 1815; B.A. (2nd Wrangler and 2nd Smith's prize) 1816; M.A. 1819; B.D. 1838; D.D. 1844. Fellow, 1817; Assistant Tutor, 1818-23; Tutor, 1823-39. Master, 1841-66. Vice-chancellor, 1842-3 and 1855-6. President of the Union, 1817. F.R.S., 1820. Professor of Mineralogy, 1828-32; Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy, 1838-55. The Knightbridge Professorship was of small value, and had been treated as a sinecure; Whewell not only lectured, but published his lectures and wrote upon allied subjects. He also introduced Philosophy into the Trinity Fellowship examination, and took an important part in founding the Moral Sciences Tripos. Ord. priest, 1825. In 1832, gave his mineralogical books and collections to the University. President of the Philosophical Society, 1843. Married (1) Oct. 12, 1841, Cordelia (died 1855), dau. of John Marshall, of Leeds; (2) July 1, 1858, Evelina Frances Ellis. Died Mar. 6, 1866, as a result of a fall whilst riding on the Gog-Ma-Gog hills near Cambridge. Established by will the Whewell Professorship and also scholarships in International Law, maintained from the rents of Whewell's Court, Trinity, which was built at his expense. Author, Mechanics; Dynamics; History of the Inductive Sciences; Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, etc. (Historical Register; D.N.B.)