Abstract
John Newcombe Crossley is a man of many talents, fortunate to have lived an eventful life. He is a mathematician, a logician, a historian of ancient mathematics, the main author of a perpetually popular book on modern logic, a professional photographer, a propagator of mathematical logic in the Southern Hemisphere, a mentor of logicians with brilliant careers, and an enthusiastic and effective collaborator on many projects. John was born to a Yorkshire family of modest means. He was a scholarship student at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield, England. From there, he also went to St John’s College, Oxford, then to Merton College as a senior scholar from 1960 to 1962. At Oxford, he was the first university lecturer in mathematical logic and became a fellow of All Souls College, where he remains a Quondam Fellow. In the brief Oxford years 1964–1972, he was the Ph.D. advisor for outstanding logicians including Peter Aczel, John Bell, Wilfrid Hodges and Chris Ash.
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