Dr. H. W. Richmond F.R.S

Abstract

HERBERT WILLIAM RICHMOND, the eminent geometer, died of heart failure in the Evelyn Nursing Home, Cambridge, on April 22, at the age of eighty-four. At the time of his death he was senior fellow of King‘s College, Cambridge, where he had resided almost continuously for sixty-five years. The only substantial break in this long period of residence was during the First World War, from 1916 until 1919, when he worked at ballistics at Portsmouth with A. V. Hill and the late Sir Ralph Fowler ; during this period he helped to make important contributions on the effects of winds on high-angle trajectories and the effects of spin on the motion of a shell. The last-mentioned work was done in conjunction with R. H. Fowler, E. G. Gallop and C. N. H. Lock ; it was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and afterwards became a classic. After the War he edited at Cambridge the confidential "Text-Book of Anti-Aircraft Gunnery", Vols. 1 and 2.