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A fact from E. W. Middlemast appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 October 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that E. W. Middlemast wrote a letter recommending Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan for a job?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/October. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/E. W. Middlemast.

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Death?

Date and place of death is not stated here. I tried Google without success. Perhaps someone else can find this information. --DThomsen8 (talk) 12:14, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I couldn't find them either. The Google info, all, ends around 1915. Apparently, after he was appointed president of the Indian Mathematical Society in 1915, something happened, as the records seem to indicate that he was away much of that year. In the IMS listing it states: EW Middlemast President, 1915–1915. XYZ (some other person) President 1915–19**. Also, in my Google searches, two weeks ago, I found some listings of EW Middlemast (Madras) in Astronomy. (... that he was elected Fellow of some Astronomical Society or other.) But I can't find them anymore! The Cambridge Alumni register for 1954 goes only as far 1907 for him. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 13:08, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

PS It is also odd that he was Principal of Presidency College for just one year, 1915. I wonder if there was some debilitating, even fatal, illness or accident that year. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 13:19, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

PPS Sorry, the astronomer was a different principal of Presidency College Madras—E. B. Powell. (See, for example, NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service; OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online (1853). Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Priestley and Weale. p. 65. Retrieved 4 October 2011.). Fowler&fowler «Talk» 20:21, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

PPPS The Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society (1914–16) (See Indian Mathematical Society (1916). Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society. Vol. Volumes 7-9. p. 81. Retrieved 4 October 2011. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)) says:

Our President Mr. EW Middlemast, MA, Principal and Professor of Mathematics, Presidency College, Madras, being unavoidably absent from India, the Committee have, under Act VIII(e) of Constitution, after mature consideration, appointed Dewan Bahadur R. Bamachandra Rao, BA, Collector, Nellore, to be the President of the Society during the absence of Mr. Middlemast.

Fowler&fowler «Talk» 20:36, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

PPPPS This is a long shot, but there is a Isabella Middlemast (Mrs. Edward Middlemast, British citizen, aged 32) listed among the survivors of the RMS Lusitania in May 1915, which was sunk by German U-boats. Doesn't seem to indicate that she was traveling with her husband (i.e. doesn't seem to list a Mr. E. Middlemast among the dead. Also, husband's name is "Edward," not "Edgar," though many of the passenger manifest entries have minor errors.) Fowler&fowler «Talk» 22:49, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]