OUGHRED, WILLIAM, an eminent mathematician, was born at Eton in 1673, and educated in the school there, whence he was elected to King's College, Cambridge, of which he afterwards became fellow. Being admitted to holy orders, he left the university about the year 1693, and was presented to the rectory of Aldbury, near Guildford in
1 Mill, vol. ix., p. 209; and especially for some remarkable examples, Sleeman, vol. ii., p. 79.
2 Vol. ii., p. 413.
3 Vol. ii., pp. 52, 76.
4 Sleeman, vol. i., p. 272.
5 Private Life of an Eastern King.
6 Ibid., p. 166.
7 Sleeman shows that he was legitimate, vol. ii., p. 181, &c.
8 Sleeman, vol. i., p. 162.
9 Sleeman, vol. ii., p. 180, note.
Ouglitsch Surrey; and about the year 1628 he was appointed by the Earl of Arundel to instruct his son in the mathematics. He kept a correspondence by letter with some of the most eminent scholars of his time on mathematical subjects; and his house was generally full of young gentlemen who came from all parts to receive his instruction. It is said that, upon hearing the news of the vote at Westminster for the restoration of Charles the II., he expired in a sudden transport of joy, at the age of eighty-eight. He wrote Clariss Mathematica in 1631; a Description of the Double Horizontal Dial in 1633; and Opuscula Mathematica in 1676. (See Biographia Britannica.)