Hamnet Holditch
Rev. Hamnet Holditch, also spelled Hamnett Holditch, was an English mathematician who was president of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
In 1858, he introduced the result in geometry now known as Holditch's theorem.
Hamnet Holditch was born in 1800 at Lynn, Norfolk. In 1818, he began his studies of mathematics at the University of Cambridge, having obtained his bachelor's degree in 1822 and his master's degree in 1825. He was Senior Wrangler in the Tripos and was awarded the Smith's Prize of 1822. He was a Fellow of Caius College, and its President from 1835 until 1867, when he died.
He was the only son of George Holditch, and had two sisters.
