Abstract
PHILIP HERBERT COWELI, who died on June 6 last in his seventy-ninth year, was educated at Eton, where his mathematical ability attracted attention. From there he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1889 with an entrance scholarship. He was Senior Wrangler in 1892, and it was said of him—as of other outstanding mathematicians—that he gained more that as many marks as his nearest competitor. His astronomical leanings were shown by the award of the Sheepshanks Exhibition and the Isaac Newton Studentship. Like the late Prof. E. W. Brown, who was four years his senior, he undertook research on the motion of the moon, employing the method which was devised but not developed by G. W. Hill. For this work, involving the inclinational terms in the moon's motion, he was elected a fellow of his College in 1894.
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