William Gentle FRSE (19 January 1877 – 31 March 1964) was a Scottish mathematician and physicist, and headmaster of George Heriot's School from 1926 to 1942.
[1] He was born in Dundee on 19 January 1877 the third child of Marion Drummond Brand from Torryburn in Fife and William Gentle (1838–1890), a printer.
He then attended George Heriot's School going on to study mathematics and other sciences at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1903 with a BSc.
His proposers were James Gordon MacGregor, David Fowler Lowe, Thomas Burns and John Brown Clark.
[5] In the First World War he served as an officer in the Royal Field Artillery, and was wounded by shell-fire at Messines Ridge in 1917.