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Heighton, Ernest Lloyd
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Dates of existence
1914-1997
History
Ernest Lloyd Heighton taught mathematics at Dalhousie University from 1957-1980. He was born in Pictou to Daniel Heighton and Abigail Shea Heighton in 1914. After attending Pictou Academy and Nova Scotia Normal College, he entered the Merchant Navy and fought during World War Two. In 1945 he enrolled at Dalhousie and completed his BSc in 1949 and MSc in 1951. During his student years he was a member of Glee Club, played saxophone and clarinet with Dal Concert Orchestra and The Collegians dance band, and served for two years as bandmaster of the university's brass band. He was on the executive of the Dalhousie Society of Graduate Students. In 1957 he was hired by University of King's College, teaching in the Department of Mathematics at Dalhousie until his retirement in 1980, with sabbaticals devoted to completing a PhD from University of Virginia in 1971. In 1990 he published a biography of Dalhousie physicist Howard Bronson, and he and his wife established the Ernest and Dorothy Heighton Memorial Prize for music students, which recognizes performance talent in jazz and improvisation. He died in July 1997.