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.[2] From 1806 until 1816, he was Professor of Mathematics at the East India Company College, Haileybury.[2] He wrote a number of mathematical texts:[3] his Algebra achieved international circulation.[4] He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.[2]
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).[2] He died on 15 May 1833, aged 66.[2][3][5] In September 2011 the Cherry Hinton Community Junior School was named after Bewick, becoming Bewick Bridge Community Primary School.[6]
^Nietz, John Alfred (1966), The evolution of American secondary school textbooks: rhetoric & literature, algebra, geometry, natural history (zoology), botany, natural philosophy (physics), chemistry, Latin and Greek, French, German & world history as taught in American Latin grammar school academies and early high schools, C. E. Tuttle Co., p. 48.