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PETER PINKERTON was born in Kilmarnock on Jan. 8, 1870, and received his early education at the Academy there. At the University of Glasgow he gained the degree of M.A. with highest honours in mathematics, and afterwards he studied for two years at the Royal College of Science, Dublin. After a period of six years as mathematical master in Allan Glen's School, Glasgow, he was appointed head of the mathematical department of the Royal Academical Institution, Belfast, a position which he resigned after a short tenure to take up a similar one in George Watson's College, Edinburgh. Sixteen years ago he was appointed Rector of the High School of Glasgow, and he discharged the varied and responsible duties of that post with marked success and increasing distinction until his death on Nov. 22 last.
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Dr. P. Pinkerton. Nature 127, 100 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127100a0
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