Dr William Leonard Ferrar FRSE (21 October 1893 – 22 January 1990) was an English mathematician.
In 1912, he gained a place at The Queen's College in Oxford, winning the Junior Mathematical Scholarship in 1914.
[2] His studies were interrupted by the First World War during which he first spent as a telephonist in the artillery then as an Intelligence Officer in France.
[1] He spent his first 4 years working in Bangor then was invited to the University of Edinburgh by Edmund Whittaker as a lecturer in mathematics.
His proposers were Edmund Whittaker, Edward Copson, Sir Charles Galton Darwin and David Gibb.