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Hustler's period as a tutor overlapped with the years 1815–1825 that have been dubbed the "analytical revolution" at Cambridge. In the teaching and examining of the [[infinitesimal calculus]], the notations and ideas of [[Gottfried Leibniz]] were introduced, alongside those traditionally taught of [[Isaac Newton]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Warwick |first1=Andrew |title=Masters of Theory: Cambridge and the Rise of Mathematical Physics |date=15 April 2011 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-87376-3 |page=69 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6vs8EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA69 |language=en}}</ref>
Hustler's period as a tutor overlapped with the years 1815–1825 that have been dubbed the "analytical revolution" at Cambridge. In the teaching and examining of the [[infinitesimal calculus]], the notations and ideas of [[Gottfried Leibniz]] were introduced, alongside those traditionally taught of [[Isaac Newton]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Warwick |first1=Andrew |title=Masters of Theory: Cambridge and the Rise of Mathematical Physics |date=15 April 2011 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-87376-3 |page=69 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6vs8EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA69 |language=en}}</ref>


As a tutor, Hustler diverted [[George Airy]] away from applying to [[Peterhouse]], which had been recommended by [[Thomas Clarkson]], a friend of Hustler's, and taught him at Trinity.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Airy |first1=George Biddell |title=Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy |date=25 September 2019 |publisher=BoD – Books on Demand |isbn=978-3-7340-6678-8 |page=22 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BraxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA22 |language=en}}</ref> Airy had been taught by a master at his school in [[Colchester]], Thomas Rogers (1789–1860), a graduate from [[Sidney Sussex College]] in 1811, covering the university topics to [[fluxion]]s and the ''Principia''. Hustler and his tutorial assistant [[George Peacock]] were in 1819 passed work by Airy.<ref name="SS">{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Jonathan |last2=Stray |first2=Christopher |title=Teaching and Learning in Nineteenth-century Cambridge |date=2001 |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |isbn=978-0-85115-783-2 |pages=20–22 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=P0X7F4mLTpkC&pg=PA20 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{acad|id=RGRS805T|name=Rogers, Thomas}}</ref>
As a tutor, Hustler diverted [[George Airy]] away from applying to [[Peterhouse]], which had been recommended by [[Thomas Clarkson]], a friend of Hustler's, and taught him at Trinity.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Airy |first1=George Biddell |title=Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy |date=25 September 2019 |publisher=BoD – Books on Demand |isbn=978-3-7340-6678-8 |page=22 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BraxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA22 |language=en}}</ref> Airy had been taught by a master at his school in [[Colchester]], Thomas Rogers (1789–1860), a graduate from [[Sidney Sussex College]] in 1811, covering the university topics to [[fluxion]]s and the ''Principia''. Hustler and his tutorial assistant [[George Peacock]] were in 1819 passed work by Airy.<ref name="SS">{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Jonathan |last2=Stray |first2=Christopher |title=Teaching and Learning in Nineteenth-century Cambridge |date=2001 |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |isbn=978-0-85115-783-2 |pages=20–22 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=P0X7F4mLTpkC&pg=PA20 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{acad|id=RGRS805T|name=Rogers, Thomas}}</ref> In 1820, Hustler arranged an [[exhibition (scholarship)|exhibition]] (minor scholarship) for Airy, via the Norwich Member of Parliament [[William Smith (abolitionist)|William Smith]].<ref name="Airy">{{cite book |last1=Airy |first1=George Biddell |title=Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy |date=25 September 2019 |publisher=BoD – Books on Demand |isbn=978-3-7340-6679-5 |pages=24-25 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=86mxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA24 |language=en}}</ref>


Peacock then gave Airy special teaching in the contemporary calculus methods, and Airy responded by working over results of [[Samuel Vince]] and [[Robert Woodhouse]]. Hustler intervened to place Airy and some of his peers, ahead of the usual schedule, in the "questionist" group of those being prepared for the final stage of the [[Mathematical Tripos]]. There was resistance from the more senior students. The accelerated group was then taught separately, by Peacock.<ref name="SS"/>
Peacock then gave Airy special teaching in the contemporary calculus methods, and Airy responded by working over results of [[Samuel Vince]] and [[Robert Woodhouse]].<ref name="SS"/> When Airy began experimenting with the [[Argand diagram]] in 1820, Peacock encouraged him in linking it to [[trigonometry]], but Hustler disapproved.<ref name="Airy"/>
In 1822, Hustler intervened to place Airy and some of his peers, ahead of the usual schedule, in the "questionist" group of those being prepared for the final stage of the [[Mathematical Tripos]]. There was resistance from the more senior students. The accelerated group was then taught separately, by Peacock.<ref name="SS"/>


==Later life==
==Later life==

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James Devereux Hustler (1784–1849) was an English cleric and academic. He was a mathematician, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1819.[1]

Early life

He was the son of Thomas and Ann Hustler of Bury St Edmunds; William Hustler (died 1832), registrar of the University of Cambridge, and Robert Samuel Hustler (died 1835) of the Royal Engineers, who served at the Battle of Waterloo as a Captain, were his brothers.[1][2][3] He was educated at the King Edward VI Free School, Bury St Edmunds, under the Rev. Michael Becher.[1][4]

Hustler matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1801, moving to Trinity College in 1802. He was third Wrangler in 1806, after Frederick Pollock and Henry Walter, graduating B.A. He became a Fellow of Trinity in 1807.[1][5]

In 1809 Hustler graduated M.A., in 1814 he became a tutor at Trinity, and he graduated B.D. in 1816.[1]

Trinity tutor

Hustler's period as a tutor overlapped with the years 1815–1825 that have been dubbed the "analytical revolution" at Cambridge. In the teaching and examining of the infinitesimal calculus, the notations and ideas of Gottfried Leibniz were introduced, alongside those traditionally taught of Isaac Newton.[6]

As a tutor, Hustler diverted George Airy away from applying to Peterhouse, which had been recommended by Thomas Clarkson, a friend of Hustler's, and taught him at Trinity.[7] Airy had been taught by a master at his school in Colchester, Thomas Rogers (1789–1860), a graduate from Sidney Sussex College in 1811, covering the university topics to fluxions and the Principia. Hustler and his tutorial assistant George Peacock were in 1819 passed work by Airy.[8][9] In 1820, Hustler arranged an exhibition (minor scholarship) for Airy, via the Norwich Member of Parliament William Smith.[10]

Peacock then gave Airy special teaching in the contemporary calculus methods, and Airy responded by working over results of Samuel Vince and Robert Woodhouse.[8] When Airy began experimenting with the Argand diagram in 1820, Peacock encouraged him in linking it to trigonometry, but Hustler disapproved.[10]

In 1822, Hustler intervened to place Airy and some of his peers, ahead of the usual schedule, in the "questionist" group of those being prepared for the final stage of the Mathematical Tripos. There was resistance from the more senior students. The accelerated group was then taught separately, by Peacock.[8]

Later life

Hustler's clerical career began in 1823, when he was a curate at Fornham All Saints.[1] In 1828 the Duke of Grafton presented him to the rectory of Great Fakenham, and in 1829 to the living of Euston, Suffolk.[2][11]

Works

  • The Elements of Conic Sections: with the sections of conoids (1st edition 1818, 2nd edition 1820, 3rd edition 1826), anonymous.[12][13] A revised edition of 1845 was published under Hustler's name.[14]
  • A Sermon preached [...] the first Sunday after the funeral of [...] George Henry Duke of Grafton (1844)[15]

Family

Hustler married Elizabeth Mansel, daughter of William Lort Mansel. Of their children:

  • Augusta Frederica, the youngest daughter, married in 1856 the Rev. Owen Jones.[16]

Portraits of their children were painted in 1833 by Samuel Lane.[17]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Hustler, James Devereux (HSTR801JD)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ a b The Gentleman's Magazine. E. Cave. 1850. p. 103.
  3. ^ Bromley, Janet; Bromley, David (25 March 2015). Wellington's Men Remembered Volume 2: A Register of Memorials to Soldiers who Fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo- Volume II: M to Z. Pen and Sword. p. 605. ISBN 978-1-84884-750-7.
  4. ^ Biographical list of boys educated at King Edward VI. Free Grammar School, Bury St. Edmunds : From 1550 to 1900 ... Bury St. Edmunds : Paul & Mathew. 1908. p. 202.
  5. ^ University of Cambridge (1917). Historical Register of the University of Cambridge ... to the Year 1910. p. 300.
  6. ^ Warwick, Andrew (15 April 2011). Masters of Theory: Cambridge and the Rise of Mathematical Physics. University of Chicago Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-226-87376-3.
  7. ^ Airy, George Biddell (25 September 2019). Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy. BoD – Books on Demand. p. 22. ISBN 978-3-7340-6678-8.
  8. ^ a b c Smith, Jonathan; Stray, Christopher (2001). Teaching and Learning in Nineteenth-century Cambridge. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 20–22. ISBN 978-0-85115-783-2.
  9. ^ "Rogers, Thomas (RGRS805T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  10. ^ a b Airy, George Biddell (25 September 2019). Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy. BoD – Books on Demand. pp. 24–25. ISBN 978-3-7340-6679-5.
  11. ^ History, Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural (1894). Proceedings. p. 305.
  12. ^ Hustler, James Devereux (1820). The Elements of the Conic Sections with the Sections of the Conoids. J. Smith.
  13. ^ Cushing, William (1889). Anonyms: A Dictionary of Revealed Authorship. W. Cushing. ISBN 978-3-487-02714-2.
  14. ^ "Errata". The Mathematical Gazette. 13 (186): 292. 1927. ISSN 0025-5572.
  15. ^ Hustler, James Devereux (1844). A Sermon preached ... the first Sunday after the funeral of ... George Henry Duke of Grafton. W. T. Jackson.
  16. ^ The Ecclesiastical gazette, or, Monthly register of the affairs of the Church of England. 1857. p. 13.
  17. ^ Graves, Algernon (1972). The Royal Academy of Arts; a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904. Vol. IV. New York, B. Franklin. p. 389.
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