This article contains information on George Salmon (1819-1904) from Ireland.

Spinrad: <Salmon played at the Birmingham 1858 tournament (attended by Morphy, who did not play), beating one Djuro Szabo (1840-1892, not to be confused with twentieth-century Hungarian GM Laszlo Szabo) 2-0 in the first round before losing to Owen in the second; he also played in the blindfold exhibition against Morphy.>

Regarding James Joyce's "Ulysses"

Spinrad: <Joyce scholars have told me that the mention of chess on this page is simply a fortuitous coincidence, but the character referred to is indeed Salmon the chess player. He is considered a role model for the young Bloom in "Ulysses". Salmon was the Provost of Trinity College in Belfast. There is still a statue of him at the college, but people seem to use it as a prop for a single joke. Apparently, Salmon had said that women would be admitted to the college "over my dead body"; within a year he was dead and the first woman was admitted.>

Rev. Dr. Salmon in general

Spinrad: <In fact, Salmon was an extraordinarily accomplished and versatile intellectual. He was trained in mathematics, and made significant contributions in geometry and algebra. As well as doing original work in these areas at a very high level, his books on the subject were considered to be excellent.

"Hospitable and kindly, Salmon had many friends and interests. In youth a competent musician and a chess played of remarkable powers, he cultivated both recreations until an advanced age. He was an omnivorous reader ... and had a special affection for the older novelists ... The homely vigour and delightful wit of the long letters which he was accustomed to write to his friends entitle him to rank as one of the best letter writers of the [19th] century."

(by J. Ossory, Dictionary of National Biography)

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A characteristic of Salmon's work [as an outstanding mathematician] was his love of carrying out lengthy calculations. He calculated an invariant of a curve of degree six and published the resulting calculation, which ran to thirteen pages, in the second edition of his treatise on higher algebra which appeared in 1866.

To have a work dealing with a theological doctrine re-published some 120 years after the original is quite something else!