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R. H. Jude
Born
Richard Henry Jude

1853
Camberwell
Died1 June 1924 (aged 71)
Eltham
Occupation(s)Mathematician, physicist

Richard Henry Jude (1853 – 1 June 1924) was an English mathematician, physicist and animal rights campaigner.

Career

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Jude was born in Camberwell and was educated at King's College London where he won a mathematics scholarship.[1] In 1872 he received honours from University of London and qualified B.Sc with first-class honours in mathematics.[1] In 1878, he obtained a Doctor of Science degree in organic chemistry from the University of London and in 1880 proceeded to a Master of Arts degree at Cambridge University.[1][2]

He was appointed lecturer in mathematics and science at Rutherford College in 1882 where he remained until his retirement in 1917.[1] He was Head of the Physical and Mathematical Departments.[3] As a teacher he was credited with playing a prominent role in the higher education of young engineers.[4] He authored four physics textbooks which were translated into Russian and invented new physics apparatus which were patented.[1][5]

Animal rights

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Jude was an advocate of animal rights and served on the provisional committee of the Humanitarian League in 1891.[6] In 1891, Jude authored a paper for the National Cat Club on "Feline Intelligence".[7] In 1892, he authored a pamphlet for the Humanitarian League criticizing the cruelty of rabbit coursing.[8][9] Jude wrote that the rabbits "often half-starved, and with their legs broken, are huddled together in a sack, with no more consideration than if they were so many bundles of wood" and how they were turned loose to be chased by greyhounds and other dogs to be bitten to death or disembowelled.[10]

Jude was an honorary correspondent of the Victoria Street Society for the Protection of Animals from Vivisection.[11] He was a speaker at the 1892 annual meeting of the London Anti-Vivisection Society.[12] In 1897, he contributed an article to Henry S. Salt's Cruelties of Civilization: A Programme of Humane Reform.[13]

Death

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Jude towards the end of his life had diabetes and was deaf and blind.[4] He died at Eltham on 1 June 1924, aged 71.[4][14] He was buried at Borough Green Baptist Cemetery.[15] In spite of his ill health in his last years, an obituary in the Nature journal noted that he "retained to the end a brave fortitude in his outlook, an active and a clear mentality, and his letters rarely lacked in that spark of dry humour so characteristic of him in earlier years".[4]

Selected publications

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  • Rabbit Coursing: An Appeal to Working Men for the Humanitarian League. London: Humanitarian League. 1892.
  • So-Called Sport: A Plea for Strengthening the Law for the Protection of Animals. London: Humanitarian League. 1896. (with Joseph Stratton and William Lisle Blenkinsopp Coulson)[16]
  • Cruelties of Civilization: A Programme of Humane Reform. London: Reeves & Turner. 1897.[13]
  • First Stage Magnetism and Electricity. London: W. B. Clive. 1898.[17]
  • Physics, Experimental and Theoretical. London: Chapman and Hall. 1899.[18]
  • Matriculation Magnetism and Electricity. Cambridge: University Tutorial Press. 1910.[19]
  • Junior Magnetism and Electricity. London: W. B. Clive. 1912.[20]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Presentation to Dr R. H. Jude". The Newcastle Daily Journal. April 30, 1918. p. 6.
  2. ^ "Teston". The Maidstone and Kent Country Standard. July 20, 1878. p. 6.
  3. ^ "Mathematics and Physics". The Educational Times. February 1, 1901. p. 43.
  4. ^ a b c d Lawson, Robert W. (1924). "Dr. R. H. Jude". Nature. 114: 286. doi:10.1038/114286a0.
  5. ^ "Death at Eltham of Former Lecturer at Rutherford College". North Mail and Newcastle Chronicle. June 3, 1924. p. 2.
  6. ^ "The Humanitarian League". The Newcastle Daily Chronicle. April 1, 1891. p. 8.
  7. ^ "Club and Society Notices". Fur and Feather. March 19, 1891. p. 171.
  8. ^ "The Humanitarian League and its Aims: An Interview with H. S. Salt". Pall Mall Gazette. November 16, 1892. p. 5.
  9. ^ "Waifs and Strays". The Weekly. March 5, 1893. p. 7.
  10. ^ "The Quality of Mercy". Birmingham Gazette and Express. August 7, 1906. p. 4.
  11. ^ "The Church Congress and Vivisection". The Evening Chronicle. October 7, 1892. p. 3.
  12. ^ "London Anti-Vivisection Society". Eastern Daily Press. June 7, 1892. p. 8.
  13. ^ a b "Bellamy Library". The Sheffield and Rotherham Independent. April 10, 1895. p. 2.
  14. ^ "Death of Dr R. H. Jude". Huddersfield Daily Examiner. June 4, 1924. p. 5.
  15. ^ "The Week's Deaths". Bromley Guide and Avertiser. June 7, 1924. p. 2.
  16. ^ Tichelar, Michael (2011). "'A blow to the men in Pink': The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Opposition to Hunting in the Twentieth Century". Rural History. 22 (1): 89–113. doi:10.1017/S0956793310000154.
  17. ^ "First Stage Magnetism and Electricity". Nature. 58: 222. 1898. doi:10.1038/058222b0.
  18. ^ "Physics, Experimental and Theoretical". Nature. 60: 339–340. 1899. doi:10.1038/060339a0.
  19. ^ "(1) A First Book of Physics (2) An Elementary Text-book of Physics (3) Matriculation Magnetism and Electricity A Text-book for Use in Schools and Colleges arranged for Modern Methods of Teaching". Nature. 83: 485–486. 1910. doi:10.1038/083485b0.
  20. ^ "(1) Junior Magnetism and Electricity (2) An Introduction to Practical Physics for Colleges and Schools (3) Mémoires sur l'Electricité et l'Optique (4) Treatise on Light (5) Intermediate Physics (6) Lehrbuch der Physik (7) Physik in graphischen Darstellungen". Nature. 90: 246–248. 1912. doi:10.1038/090246a0.
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