W. W. Rouse Ball [SEP] place of death
W. W. Rouse Ball
Walter William Rouse Ball (1850–1925), known as W. W. Rouse Ball, was a British mathematician, lawyer, and fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1878 to 1905. He was also a keen amateur magician, and the founding president of the Cambridge Pentacle Club in 1919, one of the world's oldest magic societies.
Life.
Born 14 August 1850 in Hampstead, London, Ball was the son and heir of Walter Frederick Ball, of 3, St John's
John Studley's "Agamemnon"; he was certainly alluded to by Jasper Heywood, in the preface to his "Thyestes" of 1560, as a translator of Plutarch. From this it is argued that he had connection to the Inns of Court. He may have travelled to Italy, an inference from his familiarity with Italian literature. He was a mathematics tutor, to households including that of Nicholas Bacon and Francis Wyndham; and Cecil may have recommended Blundeville to Leicester. W. W. Rouse Ball gives a date of death of