Wallis
JOHN, an English mathematician; born in Ashford, England, Nov. 23, 1616. Educated for the Church at Emanuel College, Cambridge, he took orders in 1640, and in 1663 obtained a living in London. He was one of the secretaries to the Assembly of Divines at Westminster; became Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford in 1649. Charles II., for services rendered to the royal cause, made him one of the royal chaplains, and in 1661 he was one of the revisers of the "Book of Common Prayer." He was one of the earliest and most useful members of the Royal Society, founded in 1663. He was the WALLOONS are author of many mathematical, theological, and controversial works and papers, the most important of which his "Arithmetic of the Infinities," and He died in Oxford, Oct. 28, 1703.