Joseph David Everett

Prof Joseph David Everett DCL FRSE (1831–1904) was an English physicist, professor of natural philosophy at Queen's College, Belfast.

Born at Rushmere, near Ipswich, Suffolk, on 11 September 1831, he was the eldest son of Joseph David Everett, a landowner and farmer of Rushmere, by his wife Elizabeth, eldest daughter of John Garwood, a corn merchant in London; Robert Lacey Everett was a brother.

He had thought of entering the ministry, but gave up the idea, and after acting for a short time as secretary of the Meteorological Society of Edinburgh, he became professor of mathematics in King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1859.

[2] Everett returned to Glasgow in 1864 as assistant to Hugh Blackburn, professor of mathematics in the university (1849–79), and worked for a time in Lord Kelvin's laboratory.

From 1867 till his retirement in 1897 he was professor of natural philosophy at Queen's College, Belfast, serving on the council from 1875 to 1881.

His main publications were:[1] He translated from Augustin Privat-Deschanel Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy: Physics (1870, largely rewritten; 6th edit.