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 | | SALMON, George (1819–1904), mathematician and theologian, was born 25 September 1819 in Dublin, the only son of Michael Salmon, linen merchant at the Linen Hall, Dublin, and subsequently at 80 Grand Parade, Cork, and Helena Salmon, daughter of the Rev. Edward Weekes. |
 | | Salmon was educated at the school of Hamblin and Porter in Cork. |
 | | Salmon was a member of the RIA (1843) and a fellow of the Royal Society (1863), and received honorary degrees from Oxford (1868), Cambridge (1874), Edinburgh (1884), and Christiania (Oslo) (1902). |
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