Kenneth Essex Edgeworth 1880-1972
Highlights of Edgeworth's's life:
1880 Born at Daramona House on 26 February.
1894 Won a scholarship to Marlborough College where he excelled in mathematics.
1897 Joined the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich.
1898 Joined the School of Military Engineering at Chatham, served in S. Africa.
1902 While stationed at Aldershot he acquired Osborne Reynolds' book on a mechanical theory of the universe.
1903 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.
1904-17 Served in Somaliland, Egypt, Sudan, Chatham and Dublin. He was awarded the DSO, MC and was three times Mentioned in Despatches.
1917 Married Isabel Mary (ne้ Pigott), widow of Arthur F. Eves on 23 August.
1920 Joined the Signal Training Centre at Maresfield, Sussex and rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
1926-31 Chief Engineer in the Sudanese Department of Posts and Telegraphs.
1931 Returned with his wife to live at Cherbury, Booterstown, Co. Dublin.
1932-44 Published four books on economics.
1943 Published a paper on 'The Evolution of Our Planetary System' in the July issue of the Journal of the British Astronomical Society. This appears to be the first suggestion of a reservoir of comets beyond the planets.
1943-49 Papers on star formation and the development of the solar system.
1948 Elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.
1961 Published 'The Earth, the Planets and the Stars'. Macmillan, New York.
1965 Published his autobiography 'Jack of All Trades - The Story of My Life'. Allen Figgis, Dublin.
1972 Died in Dublin on 10 October, aged 92.