He graduated in 1884 as third wrangler, and in 1885 was awarded a "first" in the mathematical tripos.

He left Cambridge the following year, not having sat the mathematical tripos because of his delicate health, and became a barrister of the Inner Temple.

A number of them went on to achieve high distinction in the mathematical tripos, and subsequently in the hierarchies of university and church.

Undergraduates competing for honors at Cambridge University take a set of examinations termed the "mathematical tripos" (after the three-legged chair the participants once sat on).

Rote learning, called bookwork, was used in mathematics at Cambridge University in preparation for mathematical tripos:

In that time, high wranglers of one year became the examiners of the mathematical tripos three or four years afterwards.

He graduated in 1864 with a BA in the mathematical tripos.

He went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1940 and read parts I and II of the mathematical tripos as a compressed two-year course.

Taking part 2 of the mathematical tripos in his third year, he was placed in the second division of the first class.

He was a brilliant scholar, though only a senior optime in the mathematical tripos.