GALLOWAY

galloway, thomas (1796-1851), scottish mathematician, was born at symington, lanarkshire, on the 26th of february 1796. in 1812 he entered the university of edinburgh, where he distinguished himself specially in mathematics. in 1823 he was appointed one of the teachers of mathematics at the military college of sandhurst, and in 1833 he was appointed actuary to the amicable life assurance office, the oldest institution of that kind in london; in which situation he remained till his death on the 1st of november 1851. galloway was a voluminous, though, for the most part, an anonymous writer. his most interesting paper is "on the proper motion of the solar system," and was published in the _phil. trans._, 1847. he contributed largely to the seventh edition of the _encyclopaedia britannica_, and also wrote several scientific papers for the _edinburgh review_ and various scientific journals. his _encyclopaedia_ article, "probability," was published separately. see _transactions of the royal astronomical society_ (1852).