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1. Bayes biography
   
   • Thomas Bayes' father, Joshua Bayes, was one of the first six Nonconformist ministers to be ordained in England.
     
   • He was ordained in 1694 and moved to Box Lane Chapel, Bovington, about 25 miles from London.
     
   • He left the University as a probationer, but he was not ordained at this stage.
     
   • Thomas Bayes was ordained, a Nonconformist minister like his father, and at first assisted his father in Holborn.
     

2. Tunstall biography
   
   • On his return to England he entered the Church, obtaining the parish of Barmston in Yorkshire although at this stage he had not been ordained.
     
   • He was then rector of a number of different parishes such as Stanhope, Durham in 1508, Aldridge, Staffordshire in 1509, before being ordained subdeacon on 25 March 1509 and deacon on 7 April 1509.
     
   • During his time East Peckham he was ordained a priest in April 1511.
     

3. Whewell biography
   
   • He was ordained a priest on Trinity Sunday 1825, which was a requirement of Fellows of Trinity, then ordained as a deacon in the following year.
     

4. Faa di Bruno biography
   
   • Bosco had been ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1841 in Turin and began to work there to help boys who came to look for work in the city.
     
   • Influenced by Giovanni Bosco, Faa di Bruno was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in Rome on 22 October 1876.
     

5. Polkinghorne biography
   
   • In 1977 Polkinghorne had made a decision to make a major career change when he decided to enter the ordained ministry of the Church of England.
     
   • He was ordained a deacon in Ely Cathedral in June 1981, and was a part-time curate at St Andrew's, Chesterton, in Cambridge.
     

6. Venn biography
   
   • He was elected a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College shortly after graduating, and two years later was ordained a priest.
     
   • In fact the year after his graduation, in 1858, he had been ordained a deacon at Ely, then after his ordination as a priest he had served as a curate first at Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, and then for a year as a curate at Mortlake, Surrey.
     

7. Berkeley biography
   
   • As well as carrying out some light tutoring duties, he studied divinity and was ordained deacon in February 1709 and ordained a priest in the following year.
     

8. Cotes biography
   
   • Before going on to look at his mathematical contributions let us note that he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society on 30 November 1711, was ordained a deacon on 30 March 1713, and was ordained a priest on 31 May 1713.
     

9. Tacquet biography
   
   • In this period, during which he taught mathematics, he was ordained in 1646.
     

10. Boulliau biography
    
    • By the age of 26 he was ordained as a Catholic priest and one year later, in 1632, he went to Paris.
      

11. Mascheroni biography
    
    • Mascheroni was educated with the aim of becoming a priest and he was ordained at the age of 17.
      

12. Flamsteed biography
    
    • Ordained in 1675, Flamsteed received the income of the living of Burstow, Surrey from 1684.
      

13. Haldane biography
    
    • He then was appointed minister at Drumelzier in Peeblesshire and was ordained on 9 March 1807.
      

14. Saccheri biography
    
    • Saccheri was ordained a priest in March 1694 at Como and then later in the year he was sent by the Superiors of the Jesuit Order to teach philosophy at the Jesuit College in Turin.
      

15. Lemaitre biography
    
    • Another change in his life brought about by his wartime experiences came about when he enrolled at the Maison Saint Rombaut, a seminary of the Archdiocese of Malines, and was ordained in 1923, becoming Abbe Lemaitre.
      

16. Abbott biography
    
    • In the same year he was ordained a deacon and in 1863 he became a priest.
      

17. Clavius biography
    
    • He was ordained in 1564 but remained at the Collegio Romano were he began teaching mathematics in the year of his ordination.
      

18. Fabri biography
    
    • He was ordained in 1635.
      

19. Watson Henry biography
    
    • In fact Watson has been ordained a deacon in 1856 and he took priest's orders two years later.
      

20. Pell biography
    
    • After his return to England Pell was ordained a deacon, then a priest in 1661.
      

21. Cusa biography
    
    • He was ordained in 1440 and became a cardinal in 1448 and then became the bishop of Brixon (now Bressanone) in 1450.
      

22. Werner biography
    
    • He moved to Rome in 1493 where he was ordained a priest.
      

23. Malebranche biography
    
    • In 1664 Malebranche was ordained a priest having studied ecclesiastical history, Hebrew and Biblical criticism.
      

24. Colenso biography
    
    • He achieved his second ambition when he was ordained in the following year.
      

25. Barnes biography
    
    • In the same year he became a lecturer in mathematics, Barnes was ordained deacon by the Bishop of London and from 1906 to 1908 was Junior Dean of Trinity.
      

26. Young Alfred biography
    
    • In 1908 Young was ordained and became a Curate at Christ Church, Hastings.
      

27. Leslie biography
    
    • After two further unsuccessful attempts at chairs of natural philosophy (one in St Andrews and one in Edinburgh) he was appointed as professor of mathematics at Edinburgh in 1805 after a bitter dispute, since he was not ordained by the Church.
      

28. Bolzano biography
    
    • Two days after receiving his doctorate Bolzano was ordained a Roman Catholic priest.
      

29. Gunter biography
    
    • Gunter was ordained and in 1615 became Rector of St George's Church in Southwark and of St Mary Magdalen, Oxford.
      

30. Playfair biography
    
    • He was then ordained the Minister of Liff and Benvie in succession to his father.
      

31. Price biography
    
    • They were both ordained to the Dissenting ministry and Priestley frequently visited Price in Newington Green.
      

32. Mengoli biography
    
    • He was also ordained into the priesthood.
      

33. Mersenne biography
    
    • Mersenne entered the Order on 16 July 1611, and was ordained a priest in Paris in July 1612 after a two and a half month probationary period in the monasteries at Nigeon and Meaux.
      

34. Bruno Giordano biography
    
    • His views were considered heretical by many in the convent, but nevertheless he was ordained a Catholic priest in 1572.
      

35. Ricci Matteo biography
    
    • In Goa Ricci studied for the priesthood, and he was ordained in 1580.
      

36. Dodgson biography
    
    • Although he took deacon's orders in 1861, Dodgson was never ordained a priest, partly because he was afflicted with a stammer that made preaching difficult and partly, perhaps, because he had discovered other interests such as the theatre.
      

37. Ockham biography
    
    • We do know that he was ordained a subdeacon by the archbishop of Canterbury in Southwark, London, in 1306 which certainly supports him being trained in London.
      

38. Stifel biography
    
    • He was ordained in 1511 while at the monastery.
      

39. Grassmann biography
    
    • Justus had been ordained a minister but he had taken a position in the Gymnasium at Stettin as a teacher of mathematics and physics.
      

40. Kepler biography
    
    • Kepler's early education was in a local school and then at a nearby seminary, from which, intending to be ordained, he went on to enrol at the University of Tubingen, then (as now) a bastion of Lutheran orthodoxy.
      

41. Reyneau biography
    
    • In 1679 he moved to the College de Toulon and, in 1681 he was ordained a priest there.
      

42. Bell John biography
    
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43. Ricci biography
    
    • His income came from the Church, certainly from 1650 he received such funds, but perhaps surprisingly he was never ordained.
      

44. Lamy biography
    
    • While teaching literature, grammar, Latin, Greek, history and geography at Juilly, Lamy was ordained to the priesthood in 1667.
      

45. Crofton biography
    
    • In 1848 Newman went to Rome where he was ordained to the priesthood, then founded the Oratory at Birmingham in 1848.
      

46. Billy biography
    
    • He was ordained a Jesuit.
      

47. Maurolico biography
    
    • Francisco Maurolico was ordained a priest in 1521.
      

48. Fagnano Giovanni biography
    
    • He entered the Church, being ordained priest, then appointed as canon of the cathedral in Sinigaglia in 1752.
      

49. Arnauld biography
    
    • He received a bachelor's degree in 1635 and a doctorate in theology in 1641, the same year in which he was ordained.
      

50. Ward Seth biography
    
    • He went to study privately with William Oughtred, an ordained an Episcopal minister who taught mathematics to students who came to live in his house during their period of instruction in 1643.
      

51. Oughtred biography
    
    • Oughtred was ordained an Episcopal minister in 1603.
      

52. Maskelyne biography
    
    • He was ordained a minister in 1755.
      

53. Hemchandra biography
    
    • When Candradeva was ordained in 1110 into the Shvetambara (White-robed) sect of Jainism and he was given the name Acharya Hemchandra.
      

54. Anstice biography
    
    • Anstice was ordained in 1846 and the following year he became rector of Wigginton, near Tring, in the diocese of St Albans.
      

55. Gassendi biography
    
    • He received a doctorate in theology from the University of Avignon in 1614 and was ordained one year later.
      

56. Ferrers biography
    
    • He was ordained deacon in 1859 and priest in 1860.
      

57. Servois biography
    
    • Servois's first intention was to join the priesthood and he began by following this aim and was ordained at Besancon.
      

58. Roomen biography
    
    • He was ordained a priest in 1604.
      

59. Salmon biography
    
    • This was not a problem for Salmon, who was an Anglican, but in order to take up the Fellowship that Trinity offered him in 1841 he was required to take holy orders in the Church of Ireland, which indeed he did, being ordained deacon in 1844 and a priest in 1845.
      

60. Bouvelles biography
    
    • Ordained a priest, Lefevre taught philosophy in Paris from about 1490 and it was about the time that de Bouvelles came to Paris.
      

61. West biography
    
    • He returned to England in 1785 when he was ordained an Anglican priest and, after leaving Manning's Free School, was for 28 years rector of St Thomas in the East, Morant Bay.
      

62. Temple biography
    
    • He was ordained in 1983 and entered Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight.
      

63. Kelland biography
    
    • Kelland was ordained in the Church of England and was a fellow of Queens' College during 1834-38.
      

64. Wallis biography
    
    • In the same year he was ordained by the bishop of Winchester and appointed chaplain to Sir Richard Darley at Butterworth in Yorkshire.
      

65. Whiston biography
    
    • and was ordained in the same year.
      

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1. John Maynard Keynes: 'Newton, the Man
   
   • And he believed that by the same powers of his introspective imagination he would read the riddle of the Godhead, the riddle of past and future events divinely fore-ordained, the riddle of the elements and their constitution from an original undifferentiated first matter, the riddle of health and of immortality.
     
   • All would be revealed to him if only he could persevere to the end, uninterrupted, by himself, no one coming into the room, reading, copying, testing-all by himself, no interruption for God's sake, no disclosure, no discordant breakings in or criticism, with fear and shrinking as he assailed these half-ordained, half-forbidden things, creeping back into the bosom of the Godhead as into his mother's womb.
     

2. Journal of the Statistical Society of London
   
   • In fact, as all things on earth were given to man for his use, and all things in creation were so ordained as to contribute to his advantage and comfort, and as whatever affects man individually affects also man in a state of society, it follows that Statistics enter more or less into every branch of Science, and form that part of each which immediately connects it with human interests.
     

3. EMS obituary
   
   • In 1891 he graduated with First Class Honours in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy; among those who obtained the same degree at the same time were M E Philip, afterwards one of H M Inspectors of Schools in Scotland, and A Mitchell Hunter, who was ordained to the Ministry of the Free Church of Scotland and became Librarian of New College.
     

4. George Salmon: from mathematics to theology
   
   • Given this, and the fact that he was ordained in 1845, it can be deduced that he also had a keen interest in theology during his early mathematical career.
     

5. A N Whitehead: 'Autobiographical Notes
   
   • About 1860 my father was ordained as a clergyman of the Anglican Church; and about 1866 or 1867 he gave up his school for clerical duty, first in Ramsgate, and later in 1871 he was appointed Vicar of St Peters Parish, a large district mostly rural, with its church about two or three miles from Ramsgate.
     

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