. Cambridge. J & J J Deighton. 1837. pp. xi, errata, 196. Diagram, folded. 8vo. Original boards, quarter cloth, spine label darkened. John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge's copy with his name on the front free endpaper. John Hymers (1803 - 1887) was a mathematician and tutor at St John's College Cambridge before being ordained a priest in 1834. In 1848 he was elected president of St John’s College but, reportedly disillusioned with university life, resigned the headship in 1852 to take up the rectory of Brandesburton in Holderness, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, to which he was presented by his college. He spent the last thirty-five years of his life at Brandesburton. He was appointed JP for the East Riding in 1857, and his decisions as a magistrate were noted for their precision. By his will of 24 August 1885, he bequeathed some of his property to the mayor and corporation of Hull, to provide for the foundation of a grammar school, 'for the training of intelligence in whatever social rank of life it may be found among the vast and varied population of the Town'. An obscurity in the wording of the will rendered the bequest invalid, but his heir, his brother Robert Hymers, voluntarily granted the sum of £50,000 for the establishment of Hymers College, Hull, which opened in 1893. ODNB.

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