George Ridsdale Goldsbrough

George Ridsdale Goldsbrough CBE FRS (19 May 1881, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear – 26 May 1963, Stratford-upon-Avon) was an English mathematician and mathematical physicist.

[1][2] After education at Bede Higher Grade School, Goldsbrough matriculated at Armstrong College (which in 1963 became a component of Newcastle University) and graduated there with honours in 1903.

In 1897 and 1898, Sydney Samuel Hough published a mathematical analysis of tides in a global ocean of nearly uniform depth without land masses.

[6] In September 1933 and January 1935, Goldsbrough published two papers on steady ocean circulation that incorporated the variation of the Coriolis parameter with latitude.

[13][14] In 1951 he published an analysis of the stability of two rings of particles in orbit around a primary,[15] He died on the 26th May 1963, at the age of 82, while sitting in a deckchair in the gardens adjoining the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon.