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Biography

Augustus De Morgan's father, John De Morgan (5 October 1771 - 27 November 1816), was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Madras Native Infantry. He was born and served in India in the 22 Dragoon Guards and married Elizabeth Dodson in 1798 at Colombo, Ceylon.

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Elizabeth was the daughter of John Dodson of the Custom House, London and the great-granddaughter of James Dodson (1705-1757) who published The Anti-Logarithmic Canon. Being a table of numbers consisting of eleven places of figures, corresponding to all Logarithms under 100,000, with an Introduction containing a short account of Logarithms in 1742.

John and Elizabeth De Morgan had seven children: John Augustus De Morgan (born 16 May 1799 and died when the Prince of Wales was wrecked on its passage back from India in 1804); James De Morgan (also died in the 1804 wreck of the Prince of Wales); Eliza De Morgan (born 27 September 1801); Georgina De Morgan (born March 1805 and died in 1812); Augustus D Biography: [Augustus] De Morgan - JSTOR MUFYT