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with the rank of Captain and was employed as a naval scientist. In 1945 he was appointed Chief Scientist in the Mine Design department of the Admiralty. For his service he was awarded the
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from 1953, Chairman of the Newcastle Hospital Board 1953–1968, Vice President of the International Hospital Federation 1959-1967 and Treasurer of the
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of London in 1965. He held several professional and civic appointments including President of the
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Collingwood returned to Cambridge and was in 1929 awarded a doctorate for a thesis entitled
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Cartwright, D. M. L.; Hayman, W. K. (1971). "Edward Foyle Collingwood 1900-1970".
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Collingwood returned to mathematics after the war and continued his interest in
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when in 1916 he was invalided out of the Navy following an accidental injury.
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and in 1949 published his research on the theory of cluster sets.
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Collingwood was born at his family home, Lilburn Tower, near
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Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II
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travelling scholarship in 1925 he spent a year at the
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
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family, the son of Col. Cuthbert Collingwood of the
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Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach
Lilburn Tower
Lilburn Tower
Trinity College, Cambridge
Fellow of the Royal Society
CBE
Knight Bachelor
FRSE
DL
University of Cambridge
Aberystwyth University
Durham University
University of Paris
Thesis
John Edensor Littlewood
CBE
FRS
FRSE
DL
LLD
English
mathematician
scientist
Eglingham
Northumbrian
Lancashire Fusiliers
Lilburn Tower
Wooler
Northumberland

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