Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Distinguish Bewick Bridge (1767, Linton, Cambridgeshire – 15 May 1833, Cherry Hinton) was an English vicar and mathematical author.<ref>Template:Cite DNB</ref>
In 1786, he was admitted as a sizar to study mathematics at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he graduated as senior wrangler and won the Smith's Prize in 1790.<ref name="ac">Template:Acad</ref><ref name="wwrb">Template:Citation. Repr. Cambridge University Press, 2009, Template:ISBN.</ref>
In October 1790, he was ordained a deacon at Ely, and became a priest in 1792; in the same year he became a Fellow at Peterhouse, during which he spent time as both as college moderator and as proctor.<ref name="ac"/> From 1806 until 1816, he was Professor of Mathematics at the East India Company College, Haileybury.<ref name="ac"/> He wrote a number of mathematical texts:<ref name="wwrb"/> his Algebra achieved international circulation.<ref>Template:Citation.</ref> He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.<ref name="ac"/>
From 1816 until 1833, he was vicar of Cherry Hinton in Cambridge, where in 1818 he built the vicarage, and he founded the village school in 1832 (now a Church of England PrimarySchool).<ref name="ac"/> He died on 15 May 1833, aged 66.<ref name="ac"/><ref name="wwrb"/><ref>Bewick Bridge was christened on 30 March 1767.</ref> In September 2011 the Cherry Hinton Community Junior School was named after Bewick, becoming Bewick Bridge Community Primary School.<ref>We're Changing Template:Webarchive, Cherry Hinton Community Junior School, Retrieved 2011-06-28.</ref>