George Ridsdale Goldsbrough
George Ridsdale Goldsbrough CBE FRS (19 May 1881, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear – 26 May 1963, Stratford-upon-Avon) was an English mathematician and mathematical physicist. After education at Bede Higher Grade School, Goldsbrough matriculated at Armstrong College (which in 1963 became a component of Newcastle University) and graduated there with honours in 1903. From 1905 to 1919 he was the senior mathematics master at Jarrow-on-Tyne, Secondary School. In 1910 in conversation, R. A. Sampson suggested that Goldsbrough should do research on the theory of tides and gravitational astronomy. During the First World War, he worked at the HM Factory, Gretna, at their Dornock site, and is recorded on the Dornock Souvenir held at the Devils Porridge Museum in Eastriggs. At Armstrong College, Goldsbrough was appointed in 1919 Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, in 1922 Reader in Dynamical Astronomy, and in 1928 Second Professor of Mathematics. (In 1937 Armstrong College became part of King's College, Durham.) At King's College, as the successor to T. H. Havelock, he became in 1942 Head of the Department of Mathematics and remained so until his retirement in 1948. In 1897 and 1898, Sydney Samuel Hough published a mathematical analysis of tides in a global ocean of nearly