The founding editor-in-chief was William Allen Whitworth with Charles Taylor[1] and volumes 1–58 were published between 1872 and 1929.
[2] James Whitbread Lee Glaisher was the editor-in-chief after Whitworth.
[3] In the nineteenth century, foreign contributions represented 4.7% of all pages of mathematics in the journal.
[4] The journal was originally titled Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin Messenger of Mathematics.
It was supported by mathematics students and governed by a board of editors composed of members of the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin (the last being its sole constituent college, Trinity College Dublin).