MEMOIR OF THE LATE PROF. E, HODGKINSON, F.R.S. 145 



XIII. — Memoir of the late Eaton Hodgkinson, F.R.S. , 

 F.G.S.,M.R.I.A.,Hon. Mem. R.I.B.A., Inst. C.E., Roy. 

 Scot. Soc. Arts, and Soc. Civ. Eng. Paris, Prof, of the 

 Mech. Princ. of Engineering, University College, London. 

 By Robert Uawson, Esq., Honorary Member of the 

 Society. 



Bead March 4th and October 7th, 1862. 



The subject of this memoir was born, of respectable parents, 

 at the small village of Anderton, in the parish of Great 

 Bndworth, Cheshire, on the 26th of February 1789; died 

 at Eglesfield House, Higher Broughton, Manchester, June 

 1 8th, 1 86 1, in his 72nd year, and was interred at his native 

 village. His father died when he was about six years of 

 age, leaving his widow with three children, whose educa- 

 tion and maintenance depended upon her exertions and 

 prudence. 



He left his native village, with his mother and sister, at 

 the age of twenty-two, and came to reside at Salford, Man- 

 chester, where he remained the greater portion of his after- 

 Hfe. 



He was elected a member of this Society in the year 

 1826, and he enriched the Society's memoirs with the 

 following important papers, thus laying the foundation of 

 his reputation as a sound mathematician and an original 

 thinker : — 



" On the Transverse Strain and Strength of Materials " 

 (read March 22nd, 1822), vol. iv. 



'^ On the Chain Bridge at Broughton " (read Feb. 8th, 

 1828), vol. V. 



" On the Forms of the Catenary in Suspension Bridges '' 

 (read Feb. 8th, 1828), vol. v. 



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