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    Born
    9 December 1895
    Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
    Died
    22 August 1975
    Wrexham, Wrexham, Wales

    Summary
    Lancelot Hogben was a biologist who wrote Mathematics for the Million, one of the most popular mathematics books of all time.

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  • As well as many important contributions to biology, he published on linguistics and statistics.

    Biography

    Lancelot Hogben was the son of Thomas Hogben (1850-1921) and Margaret Alice Prescott (1858-1949).

    Thomas was a Methodist who left school at the age of ten and, by the time of the 1871 census, was a coal merchant living as a boarder at the home of the plumber and house decorator William Prescott and his wife Mary Alice née Tunbridge who were also a Methodists.

    We note that William and Mary's thirteen year old daughter Margaret Alice Prescott was also living there and, at the 1881 census, Thomas Hogben was still living with the Prescotts. On 4 October 1881 Thomas married Margaret Alice Prescott, the marria