Author:
Christopherson Derman Guy
Abstract
Richard Vynne Southwell was born on 2 July 1888 at Norwich. He was the son of Edwin Batterbee Southwell, of Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, who became General Manager and Director of J. and J. Colman Ltd of Norwich, and of Annie, daughter of Richard Vynne, a farmer and corn merchant of Swaffham. He was an only son, but had two sisters, one older and one younger than himself. Thomas Southwell, F. Z. S. of Norwich was a second cousin of his father. The family was believed to be descended from the Southwells of St Faith’s, near Norwich, which included Robert Southwell, the Catholic poet, and Richard Southwell, a courtier and official of Tudor times. In a characteristic note about his family, R. V. Southwell described the latter as a '(? fraudulent) paymaster’. As a child he was delicate and he did not go to school until the age of nine. In May 1898 he entered King Edward VI’s School, Norwich, where he was a pupil for nine years, leaving in July 1907. In later years he regarded the Headmaster, E. F. Gilbard (of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge) as ‘one of the finest characters I have known: self-sacrificing, with a real zeal for classical scholarship’. His own studies were almost entirely classical up to the age of sixteen, when he changed to mathematics. The teaching of that subject, he recognized afterwards, was not up to scholarship standard, but he was successful in winning an exhibition of £30 to Trinity Hall. However, on the advice of James Stuart, the first Professor of Mechanical Science at Cambridge, who became associated with his father’s business in 1898, he resigned his exhibition and entered Trinity College as a commoner in October 1907.
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1. The following is a list of Southwell's main publications.
2. 1912. The strength of struts. Engineering 94 (2 pp.).
3. The collapse of tubes by external pressure;I. Phil. Mag.,1913
4. On the collapse of tubes by external pressure;II. Phil. Mag.,1913
5. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 1914 213 The general theory of elastic stability
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