Thomas Branker

son, if I mistake not, of Tho. Branker somtimes Bach. of Arts of Exeter Coll. was born in Devonshire, admitted Batler of said Coll. 8. Nov. 1652, aged 17 years or thereabouts, elected Probationer Fellow 30. June 1655, being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards taking the degree of Master, he became a Preacher, but refusing to conform to the Ceremonies of the Church of England, left his fellowship in 1662, retired into Cheshire, where conforming and tak [•] ng upon him Orders from a Bishop, became Minister of Whitegate: At which time being well known to William Lord Brereton, for his sufficiencies in Mathematicks and Chimistry, he gave him the Rectory of Tilston; but he keeping that not long, was afterwards made master of the well endowed School at Macclesfield in the said County, where he finished his course. He hath written,

A Table of odd numbers less than one hundred thousand, shewing those that are incomposit, and re [•••] ving the rest into their Factors or coefficients, &c.—This is added by Branker to a translation which he made from High-D [••] ch into English of An introduction to Algebra. Lond. 1668. qu. written by Rhonnius: A laudable account of which Table, and of the translation, you may see in the Philosophical Transactions, num. 35. p. 688.689. See in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 871. He gave way to fate in Novemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and six,1676. and was buried in the Church at Macclesfield before mention’d, leaving then behind the character of an able Mathematician.