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Gordon Preston was born on 28 April, 1925 in Workington, United Kingdom. He was a British Army officer who served in the Second World War and later became a successful businessman. He was educated at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1945. He served in the British Army of the Rhine and in the Middle East before being posted to the Far East in 1951. He left the army in 1954 and joined the family business, Preston & Co, a manufacturer of industrial valves. He was managing director of the company from 1959 to 1985 and chairman from 1985 to 1995. He was a member of the Institute of Directors and the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. He was also a member of the Royal British Legion and the Workington Rotary Club. He was married to his wife, Margaret, for over 60 years and had two sons and two daughters. He died on 28 April, 2015 at the age of 90.

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Age 90 years old
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Born 28 April 1925
Birthday 28 April
Birthplace Workington, United Kingdom
Date of death (2015-04-14) Oxford, United Kingdom
Died Place Oxford, United Kingdom
Nationality United Kingdom

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2015

He subsequently spent six months each year in both Oxford, UK, and Melbourne, Australia, dying on 14 April 2015 in Oxford at age 89.

1963

In 1963, Preston moved to Australia to take up the chair of mathematics at Monash University, Melbourne. Preston was an important contributor to algebraic semigroup theory and a respected head of school during his various Monash appointments from 1963 until his retirement in 1990.

1954

After graduation, he was a teacher at Westminster School, London and then The Royal Military College of Science. In 1954 he wrote three highly influential papers in the Journal of the London Mathematical Society, laying the foundations of inverse semigroup theory. Before Preston and Alfred H. Clifford's book, The Algebraic Theory of Semigroups (Vol 1 1961) (Vol 2 1967) and the Russian, Evgenii S. Lyapin's, Semigroups (1960) there was no systematic treatment of semigroups. The Algebraic Theory of Semigroups was hailed as an excellent achievement that greatly influenced the future development of the subject.

1925

Gordon Bamford Preston (28 April 1925 – 14 April 2015) was an English mathematician best known for his work on semigroups. He received his D.Phil. in mathematics in 1954 from Magdalen College, Oxford.