William Hopkins
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William Hopkins was an English mathematician and geologist. He is famous as a private tutor of aspiring undergraduate Cambridge mathematicians, earning him the sobriquet the "senior-wrangler maker."
Portrait by Henry William Pickersgill
Francis Galton
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Sir Francis Galton was an English polymath and the originator of eugenics during the Victorian era; his ideas later became the basis of behavioural genetics.
William Hopkins
…were senior wranglers including Arthur Cayley and G. G. Stokes. Among his more famous pupils were Lord Kelvin, James Clerk Maxwell and Isaac Todhunter. Francis Galton praised his teaching style: Hopkins to use a Cantab expression is a regular brick; tells funny stories connected with different problems and is no way…
Galton in the 1850s or 1860s
Portrait of Galton by Octavius Oakley, 1840
Portrait by Charles Wellington Furse, 1903
Sir Francis Galton, 1890s