Joseph Allen Galbraith (29 November 1818 – 20 October 1890) was an Irish mathematician, academic and prolific textbook author, who spent his entire career at Trinity College Dublin (TCD).
[3] He co-authored 10 mathematics textbooks with his TCD colleague Samuel Haughton; they are credited with educating "a generation of Irishmen in technical issues that would make them skilled and employable.
"[4] In 1853, he joined the Council of the Dublin Statistical Society, and delivered a paper highlighting the advantages of a decimal currency system.
He also successfully lobbied to have a TCD colleague dismissed for incompetence in his supposed area of expertise (the Italian language).
As Bursar, he made substantial changes to college practices, whose system of accountancy was said to have been medieval.