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OBITUARY ERIC JOHN FYFE PRIMROSE (1920–1998)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2003

J. F. Watters
J. F. Watters
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Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH
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Abstract

Eric Primrose was appointed to a Lectureship in Pure Mathematics at the University College, Leicester, in 1947 and promoted to a Senior Lectureship in 1954. He came to Leicester direct from Oxford where he had spent the 1946–47 year completing his degree, which had been interrupted by war service. Eric was awarded his PhD in 1957 by the University of London.

Eric's secondary education was at Chigwell School and in 1939 he won an Open Scholarship in Mathematics and went up to St John's College, Oxford. He took ‘shortened finals’ in 1941 and then entered the RAF as a Technical Officer (Radar), reaching the rank of Flight Lieutenant, having served in various locations throughout Europe.

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Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , July 2002 , pp. 495 - 501
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© The London Mathematical Society 2002

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