In 1921, he served for one year as president of The Mathematical Association of the UK. In 1925 he wrote an essay entitled "The Religious Effect of the Idea of Evolution". He wrote a number of books, including Life after Death "with replies by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" in 1920. In addition to spiritual works, he co-wrote an astronomy book on double stars (mentioned above) and mathematical books on geometry and conic sections. He contributed the article "On two fragments of geometrical treatises found in Worcester Cathedral" to the Mathematical Gazette (March 1911, p. 19). Family

In 1868 he married his first wife, Annie Elizabeth Moore. Their first child was the leading civil servant Mona Wilson. His first wife died after giving birth to their fourth child in 1878. She was a cousin once removed of Arthur William Moore, a proponent of the Manx language. In 1883 he married his second wife, Georgina Mary Talbot.
In 1921, he served for one year as president of The Mathematical Association of the UK. In 1925 he wrote an essay entitled "The Religious Effect of the Idea of Evolution". He wrote a number of books, including Life after Death "with replies by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" in 1920. In addition to spiritual works, he co-wrote an astronomy book on double stars (mentioned above) and mathematical books on geometry and conic sections. He contributed the article "On two fragments of geometrical treatises found in Worcester Cathedral" to the Mathematical Gazette (March 1911, p. 19) . Family

In 1868 he married his first wife, Annie Elizabeth Moore. Their first child was the leading civil servant Mona Wilson. His first wife died after their fourth child fell ill at 19 in 1878. She was a cousin once removed of Arthur William Moore, a proponent of the Manx language. In 1883 he married his second wife, Georgina Mary Talbot.