Siddhesh Joshi (Editor)

William Tulloch Jeans

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Name
  
William Jeans


William Tulloch Jeans (1848–1907) was a British parliamentary journalist and author.

Contents

Career

Jeans was parliamentary correspondent for The Globe, and was widely known for and consulted on his knowledge of parliamentary principle.

In their 1887 review of the first volume of The Lives of Electricians, The Spectator commented that, "Jeans has treated a subject always interesting in a pleasing and graceful way".

Selected publications

  • The Lives of Electricians (1887, Whittaker & Co)
  • Creators of the Age of Steel (1884)
  • Personal life

    His wife came from Stockport. They lived in Brighton, then Tulse Hill and Clapham Park in London.

    He was the father of Sir James Hopwood Jeans OM FRS (1877–1946), physicist, astronomer and mathematician.

    References

    William Tulloch Jeans Wikipedia