Ellice Horsburgh

Ellice Martin Horsburgh FRSE AMICE (1870 – 28 December 1935) was a Scottish mathematician and engineer.

He was born in Kelso in 1870, the son of Ellen Sarah Vost and the Rev Andrew Horsburgh, a preacher and missionary in India.

He then trained for the Indian Civil Service with Wren and Gurney but, falling very ill, was instructed to go to Australia to improve his health.

He arrived at Melbourne during a financial panic and then got mixed up in the Coolgardie Gold Rush of 1892.

His proposers were George Chrystal, Charles Tweedie, Sir Thomas Hudson Beare and Cargill Gilston Knott.