Chapter X: Conclusions (2)
Raphael #MELDOLA# (b. 1849), F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry in
Finsbury Technical Coll.; discoverer of many new products and
processes in the manufacture of coal-tar dyes; also well known as
a naturalist; has been President of the Entomological Soc. and of
the Essex Field Club.--["Who's Who."]
_fa fa_, Raphael MELDOLA (1754-1828), invited to London, in 1805, on account of his fame as a theologian, to preside as High Rabbi over the London congregation of British Jews belonging to the Spanish and Portuguese community; author of many theological works.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa bro_, David MELDOLA, succeeded his father as chief of the community, though not given the same high rank; author of theological works.
_me bro_, Joseph ABRAHAM, founded a large and successful firm in Bristol; took a prominent part in municipal affairs, and became the first Jewish mayor of Bristol.
_fa si son_, Abram DE SOLA, Professor of Oriental literature in McGill Coll., Montreal; the only Jewish divine ever invited to open Congress by the U.S. Government; erudite scholar, and author of theological works.
_me bro son_, Harry ABRAHAM, a man of business, and councillor and Mayor of Southampton.
Louis C. #MIALL# (b. 1842), F.R.S., Professor of Biology,
University, Leeds; Fullerian Professor of Physiology, Royal
Inst.; President Zool. Sec. British Assoc., 1897; author of
memoirs and books on natural history.--["Who's Who."]
_fa_, James Goodeve MIALL (Rev.), Chairman of Congregational Union.
_fa bro_, Edward MIALL (1809-1881), Independent minister at Leicester, 1834; established and edited the "Nonconformist," 1841; M.P., Rochdale, 1852-1857, Bradford, 1869-1874; strove for Disestablishment of Church.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_me bro_, Charles MACKENZIE, a well-known Haymarket actor (stage-name, Henry COMPTON).
_me bro son_, Sir Morell MACKENZIE (1837-1892), celebrated physician; specialist on diseases of the throat.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_me bro son_, Sir Stephen MACKENZIE (b. 1844), senior physician, London Hospital; consulting Physician, Poplar Hospital, etc.--["Who's Who."]
_son_, Stephen MIALL, first in solicitors' examination, Clement's Inn, and "Daniel Reardon" prizeman, 1896; first-class honours, LL.B. and LL.D., London.
Henry Alexander #MIERS# (b. 1858), D.Sc., F.R.S., Waynflete
Professor of Mineralogy, Oxford, since 1895; author of many
scientific papers, "Mineralogy," etc.--["Who's Who."]
_fa me fa_, Francis PLACE (1771-1854), Radical reformer and writer; started life as leather-breeches maker; succeeded in getting the laws against combinations of workmen repealed.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa fa_, John MIERS (1789-1879), F.R.S., engineer and botanist; accompanied Lord Cochrane to Chile, 1818; made collections of birds, insects, and plants; author of many scientific papers.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa_, Francis Charles MIERS, engineer and successful man of business.
_bro_, Edward John MIERS, zoologist; author of a volume on Brachyura in "Challenger Reports," etc.
Alfred #NEWTON# (b. 1829), F.R.S., Professor of Zoology and
Comparative Anatomy, Cambridge; has been very active in promoting
the protection of wild birds; has been Vice-President of the
Royal and Zoological Societies; gold medal of the Royal and of
the Linnæan Societies; author of many works dealing principally
with birds.--["Who's Who."]
_me fa_, Richard Slater MILNES, M.P. for York; took a prominent part in county business.
_fa_, William NEWTON, M.P. for Ipswich.
_me bro_, Robert Pemberton MILNES, M.P. for Pontefract; prominent in county business.
_bro_, General William Samuel NEWTON.
_bro_, Robert Milnes NEWTON, Recorder of Cambridge; metropolitan police magistrate.
_bro_, Lieutenant-General Horace Parker NEWTON, first of his year in R.M.A., Woolwich.
_bro_, Sir Edward NEWTON, K.C.M.G., Colonial Secretary of Mauritius; Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica; author of several zoological papers in scientific journals.
_bro son_, Arthur William NEWTON, H.M. Inspector of Schools.
_bro son_, Francis James NEWTON (b. 1857), C.M.G.; Treasurer of Southern Rhodesia, 1902; some time Administrator of British Bechuanaland, and Colonial Secretary British Honduras and Barbadoes.--["Who's Who."]
_me bro son_, Richard Monckton MILNES (1809-1885), first Baron HOUGHTON; M.P. for Pontefract, 1837; distinguished in literary society; author of poems and critical essays. Did much to secure Copyright Act; assisted in the preparation of the "Tribune," 1836; established the "Philobiblon Soc.," 1853.--["Dict. N. Biog.," and "Life" by Wemyss Reid.]
_me bro son son_, Robert Offley Ashburton CREWE-MILNES, first Earl of CREWE, son of Lord Houghton; Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 1892-1895.--["Who's Who."]
#NORTHBROOK#, Earl.--See BARING.
Robert Harris Inglis #PALGRAVE# (b. 1827), F.R.S., economist and
statistician; editor of the "Economist"; also of "Dictionary of
Political Economy."--["Who's Who."]
_me fa_, Dawson TURNER (1775-1858), F.R.S., botanist and antiquary.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_me fa bro_, Joseph TURNER, Senior Wrangler, 1768.
_fa_, Sir Francis PALGRAVE (1788-1861) (son of Meyer COHEN, adopted the name Palgrave in 1823), historian; deputy-keeper, and assisted in the publication, of H.M. Records. Author of the "Rise and Progress of the English Commonwealth," 1832; "History of England and Normandy," 1851; and other works; greatly promoted study of mediæval history; knighted, 1832.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_me_, Elizabeth, née Dawson TURNER, assisted her husband in his literary work.--[Unpublished information.]
_me bro_, Dawson William TURNER (1815-1885), D.C.L., philanthropist and educational writer; Demy of Magdalen Coll., Oxford.
_bro_, Francis Turner PALGRAVE (1824-1897), poet and art critic; first-class Lit. Hum.; Professor of Poetry at Oxford; editor of "Golden Treasury"; author of many critical essays and other publications.--["Dict. N. Biog.," Suppl. iii.]
_bro_, W. Gifford PALGRAVE (1826-1888), traveller and diplomatist; at twenty years of age gained first-class Lit. Hum. and second-class Math.; became Roman Catholic, and travelled as Jesuit missionary in Syria and Arabia, disguised for the purpose. Author of "A Year's Journey through Eastern and Central Arabia." Severed his connection with the Jesuits in 1865, and thenceforward served as English diplomatist in various distant countries.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_bro_, Sir Reginald F.D. PALGRAVE (1829-1904), K.C.B., Clerk of the House of Commons. Author of "Oliver Cromwell the Protector," etc.--["Who's Who."]
_me si son_, Sir Joseph Dalton HOOKER, F.R.S. (q.v.).
Lawrence #PARSONS# (b. 1840), fourth Earl of ROSSE, D.C.L., LL.D.,
Camb. and Dublin, F.R.S.; Chancellor of University of Dublin;
author of "Memoirs of Heat of Moon and Stars" (based on
experiments with the famous reflecting telescope made by his
father), and on other subjects.--["Who's Who."]
_fa_, William PARSONS (1800-1867), third Earl of ROSSE, Pres. R.S.; constructor of the great reflecting telescope at Parsonstown, and first discoverer by its means of nebulæ and other celestial phenomena.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_bro_, Charles Algernon PARSONS (b. 1854), D.Sc., F.R.S.; notable in the development of turbine navigation; proprietor and director of electrical and engineering works.
William Matthew Flinders #PETRIE# (b. 1853), D.C.L., Lit.D., LL.D.,
Ph.D., F.R.S.; Edwards Professor of Egyptology, University Coll.,
London, since 1892. Principal discoveries: Greek settlements at
Naucratis and Daphnæ; prehistoric Egyptian at Koptos and Naqada;
inscription of Israelite War at Thebes; Kings of the earliest
dynasties at Abydos; has published much on these
subjects.--["Who's Who," and "Ency. Brit."]
_fa fa fa_, Martin PETRIE, Commissary-General; good administrator.
_fa fa_, William PETRIE, Commissary-General.
_me fa_, Matthew FLINDERS (1774-1813), naval captain; assisted George Bass to survey the coast of New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land, 1795-1800; in command of the "Investigator," and afterwards of the "Porpoise" and "Cumberland"; made the first survey of a large part of the Australian coast, 1801-1803.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa_, William PETRIE, civil engineer; first exhibitor of electric light on a large scale, 1848; inventor of various apparatus for that and chemical industries.
_me_, Ann FLINDERS PETRIE, writer of some books and articles popularizing mineralogy, about 1840; learned both Hebrew and Greek without a teacher.
Percival Spencer Umfreville #PICKERING# (b. 1858), F.R.S., director
of the Woburn Experimental Fruit Farm; investigator in chemical
physics; editor of "Memoirs of Anna Maria Pickering," and author
of 150 papers on chemical and physical subjects.--["Who's Who."]
_me fa_, John Spencer STANHOPE, F.R.S., and Membre de l'Institut at twenty-eight years of age; a man of considerable classical attainments, and author of "Platæa and Olympia" and other topographical studies in Greece.
_me me_, Elizabeth, née COKE, a woman of considerable artistic ability.
_me me fa_, Thomas William COKE (1752-1842), of Holkham, was created Earl of LEICESTER; M.P. for Norfolk, 1776-1806, and 1807-1832; favoured Protection and Parliamentary Reform; introduced modern methods into agriculture; a famous improver of stock.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa_, Percival Andrée PICKERING, Q.C., Fellow of St. John's Coll., Cambridge; Judge of Passage Court; Attorney-General for County Palatine; author of classical essays and works on Parliamentary law.
_me_, Anna Maria Wilhelmina, née SPENCER STANHOPE, of decided literary and classical ability; author of "Memoirs" recently published.
_fa bro_, Edward Hayes PICKERING, Captain of Montem, Eton; Fellow of St. John's Coll., Cambridge; died young.
_me bro_, Sir Walter Thomas William SPENCER STANHOPE (b. 1827), K.C.B., first-class in Mathematics, Oxford, 1848; M.P. West Riding of Yorkshire, S. division, 1872-1880, and 1882-1890.--["Who's Who."]
_me bro_, John Roddam SPENCER STANHOPE, artist.
_si_, Mary Evelyn DE MORGAN artist.
_si_, Anna Maria Diana Wilhelmina STIRLING, author of novels and tales under the name of Percival PICKERING.
Sir William #RAMSAY# (b. 1852), K.C.B., LL.D., D.Sc., Ph.D.,
F.R.S., F.C.S.; Professor of Chemistry, University Coll., London,
since 1887; sometime Professor of Chemistry and Principal of
University Coll., Bristol; has published numerous important
scientific papers.--["Who's Who."]
_fa fa_, William RAMSAY, manufacturing chemist; first made acetic acid from wood; discovered bi-chrome; President of the first Chemical Society, Glasgow, 1796, which was merged in the Glasgow Philosophical Society, 1802.
_fa bro_, Sir Andrew Crombie RAMSAY (1814-1891), F.R.S., Professor of Geology, University Coll., London, 1847; Director-General of the Geological Survey, 1871.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_mo bro_, Robert ROBERTSON, editor of a daily London paper (about 1835).
#RAYLEIGH#, Lord.--See STRUTT.
Clement #REID#, F.R.S., District Geologist on Survey of England and
Wales; author of many works on Geology.--["Who's Who."]
_si_, Margery Anna REID, B.Sc., London; science mistress at Ladies' Coll., Cheltenham; very successful as a teacher.
_me bro son_, Harold Leslie BARNARD, surgeon, and inventor of apparatus for testing blood-pressure.
_me me bro_, Michael FARADAY (1791-1867), F.R.S., Fullerian Professor Royal Institution; famous chemist and electrician; started his scientific career as assistant to Sir Humphry Davy.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_me fa bro_, George BARNARD, landscape artist and author of many books on drawing and painting.
_me fa bro son_, Frederick BARNARD (1846-1896), artist and caricaturist; illustrator of Dickens, contributor to "Punch," etc.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
Sir Henry Enfield #ROSCOE#, Ph.D., LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., Professor
of Chemistry Owens College, Manchester, 1857-1887; President
Society of Chemical Industry, 1881; of Chemical Society, 1882;
knighted, 1884; M.P. for S. division of Manchester, 1885-1895;
President of Brit. Assoc., 1887; Vice-Chancellor of the
University of London, 1896-1902; author of many memoirs and works
on chemistry.--["Who's Who."]
_fa fa_, William ROSCOE (1753-1831), historian, poet, and philanthropist; author of "Lives of Lorenzo de' Medici," of "Leo X.," and of several volumes of verse; M.P. for Liverpool, 1806-1807; promoter and first President of its Royal Institution.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa_, Henry ROSCOE (1800-1836), biographer, including Life of his father.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa bro_, Thomas ROSCOE (1791-1871), miscellaneous writer and translator.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa bro_, William Stanley ROSCOE, poet.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa bro_, Robert ROSCOE, poet, wrote "King Alfred."
_me_, Maria, née FLETCHER, artist and authoress, wrote "Life of Vittoria Colonna."
_me si_, Harriet FLETCHER, authoress of "Tales for Children."
_fa bro son_, William Caldwell ROSCOE (1822-1859), poet and essayist.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa si son_, William Stanley JEVONS (1835-1882), F.R.S., economist and logician; Professor of Logic and Political Economy at Owens Coll., 1866-1879; at University Coll., London, 1876-1880; influential writer.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_me si son_, Rt. Hon. Charles BOOTH, P.C., F.R.S. (q.v.).
_me si son_, Charles CROMPTON.--See BOOTH.
_me si son_, Henry CROMPTON.--See BOOTH.
#ROSSE#, fourth Earl of.--See PARSONS.
Edward John #ROUTH# (b. 1831), Sc.D., Camb., Sc.D. (hon.), Dublin,
LL.D. (hon.) Glasgow, F.R.S., Senior Wrangler and Smith's prize,
1854; Adams prize, 1877; has had twenty-seven Senior Wranglers
and more than forty Smith's Prizemen for pupils. Author of
several books on theoretical dynamics and of many mathematical
papers.--["Who's Who."]
_fa_, Sir Randolph Isham ROUTH (1782-1858), K.C.B., 1848; Commissary-General; saw much foreign service, and was senior commissariat officer at Waterloo.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_me bro_, Hon. Jean Thos. TASCHEREAU, Judge of King's Bench in Canada.
_me bro_, His Eminence Elzear Alexandre TASCHEREAU (b. 1820), son of the above; Cardinal-Priest of the Roman Catholic Church, and Archbishop of Quebec.
_me bro son_, Hon. Sir Henri Thomas TASCHEREAU (b. 1841), Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada.
_me bro son_, Hon. Henri Elzear TASCHEREAU (b. 1836), Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada; author of many works on law. (For the Taschereau family see "Canadian Men and Women of the Time.")
_fa son ½ bro_, C.H.F. ROUTH, eminent London physician.
_fa son son_, Amand J. McC. ROUTH, M.D., F.R.C.P., obstetric physician to Charing Cross Hospital, consulting obstetric physician to three other hospitals; author of numerous papers and articles on Midwifery and Gynæcology.--["Who's Who."]
_wife's fa_, Sir George B. AIRY (1801-1892), K.C.B., F.R.S., eminent mathematician and astronomer; Senior Wrangler, 1823; Astronomer Royal, 1835-1881.
Dukinfield Henry #SCOTT# (b. 1854), F.R.S., Hon. Keeper Jodrell
Lab., Royal Gardens, Kew; Botanical Sec. of the Linnæan Soc.;
President of the Royal Microscopical Soc.; author of "An
Introduction to Structural Botany," "Studies in Fossil Botany,"
and various papers in "Phil. Trans.," etc.--["Who's Who."]
_fa fa fa_, Thomas SCOTT (1747-1821), Chaplain of Lock Hosp., London, afterwards Rector of Aston Sandford; produced a commentary on the Bible in weekly parts from 1788-1792; author of many religious writings.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa fa_, Thomas SCOTT (1780-1835), Queen's Coll., Cambridge; author of many religious works.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa_, Sir George Gilbert SCOTT (1811-1878), R.A., restoring architect to Ely, Hereford, Lichfield, Salisbury, and Ripon Cathedrals; architect of Indian, Home and Colonial Offices, the Nicolaikirche at Hamburg, St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, etc.; President Royal Inst. Brit. Architects, 1873-1876; Professor of Architecture.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa bro_, Ven. Melville H. SCOTT, Archdeacon of Stafford.
_bro_, George Gilbert SCOTT, architect of Roman Catholic Cathedral, Norwich; first in Moral Science Tripos, Cambridge; Burney Prize Essay; author of "History of English Church Architecture."--["Who's Who."]
_bro son_, Giles Gilbert SCOTT, architect of New Liverpool Cathedral, by competition at the age of twenty-two.
_bro son_, Henry George SCOTT, Director of Mines and Geology to the Siamese Government at the age of twenty-four.
_fa bro son_, Canon Thomas SCOTT (b. 1831), Whewell University prizeman; first in first-class Moral Science Trip., 1854.--["Who's Who."]
_fa bro son_, Ven. Edwin A. SCOTT, Archdeacon of Christchurch, New Zealand.
Robert Henry #SCOTT# (b. 1833), D.Sc., F.R.S., classical scholar
Trin. Coll., Dublin, 1853; first Senior Mod. Exp. Physics, 1855;
Superintendent Meteorological Office 1867-1900.--["Who's Who."]
_fa fa_, John Pendred SCOTT, resident at the Court of Oude.
_me fa_, Charles BRODRICK, Archbishop of Cashel, Ireland.
_fa_, James Smyth SCOTT, gold medallist Trin. Coll., Dublin.
_me bro_, William John BRODRICK, seventh Viscount MIDLETON, Dean of Wells.
_bro_, Charles BRODRICK SCOTT, Senior Classic, Cambridge, 1848; Headmaster of Westminster School.
_bro_, James George SCOTT, Archdeacon of Dublin, Chancellor of St. Patrick's, Dublin.
_bro_, Edward Ashley SCOTT, Fellow of Trinity Coll., Cambridge.
_bro son_, George Digby SCOTT, first-class Classical tripos, Cambridge.
_bro son_, Charles William SCOTT, engineer to Irish Lights Board.
_fa bro son_, Edward William SCOTT, General Bengal Artillery; for many years secretary to the Military Board, Bengal.
_me bro son_, George C. BRODRICK (d. 1903), D.C.L., Warden of Merton Coll., Oxford; brilliant college career; connected with the "Times," 1860-1873; author of "Political Studies" (1879), "Memorials of Merton College" (1885), "Memoirs and Impressions" (1900).--["Who's Who."]
_me si son_, Charles Brodrick BERNARD, Bishop of Tuam, Ireland.
_me bro son son_, William St. John BRODRICK, P.C., Secretary of State for War, 1900-1903; subsequently for India.--["Who's Who."]
Thomas Roscoe Rede #STEBBING# (b. 1835) (Rev.), F.R.S., naturalist;
authority on Crustacea; prepared the report on the Amphipoda of
the "Challenger" expedition; author of many works on natural
history.--["Who's Who."]
_fa_, Henry STEBBING (1799-1883), D.D., F.R.S., poet, preacher, and historian; editor of the "Athenæum" almost from its commencement, 1828; published a continuation to Hume and Smollet's history, "Lives of the Italian Poets," etc.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_me bro_, William GRIFFIN, Vice-Admiral.
_bro_, William STEBBING, Scholar of Lincoln Coll., scholar and Fellow of Worcester Coll., Oxford, first-class Mods., 1852; first-class Lit. Hum., 1853, first-class Law and History, 1854; for nearly thirty years on the staff of the "Times" as leader writer, and second to the late Mr. Delane in the editorship.--["Who's Who."]
G. Johnstone #STONEY# (b. 1826), D.Sc. F.R.S.; Professor of Natural
Philosophy in late Queen's University, Ireland; memoirs on the
"Physical Constitution of the Sun and Stars," on the "Internal
Motion of Gases," etc.--["Who's Who."]
_me bro_, William Bindon BLOOD, Professor of Engineering; author of professional papers.
_me bro son_, Sir Bindon BLOOD (b. 1842), K.C.B., Commander of the Forces in Punjab; distinguished in Chitral Expedition and in Boer War.--["Who's Who."]
_bro_, Bindon Blood STONEY, LL.D., F.R.S., Engineer, especially marine; numerous engineering works and publications of great originality.--["Who's Who."]
_si son_, Maurice FITZGERALD, Professor of Engineering, Queen's Coll., Belfast.
_si son_, George Francis FITZGERALD (1891-1903), F.R.S., Professor of Nat. and Exper. Philosophy; Principal of School of Engineering, Dublin University. His scientific writings have been edited since his death by Dr. Larmor.
_son_, Gerald STONEY, one of the principal engineers in the work of the Parson's Steam Turbine Company.
Lieutenant-General Sir Richard #STRACHEY# (retired 1875), G.C.S.I.,
R.E., LL.D., F.R.S., Cambridge. Secretary of Government Central
Provinces of India during Mutiny, 1857-1858; Public-Works
Secretary to Government of India, 1862; Legislative Member of
Governor-General's Council, 1869-1870; Member of Council of
India, 1875-1889; Acting Financial Member of Governor-General's
Council, 1878; Chairman of East Indian Railway from 1889;
Chairman of Meteorological Council from 1883; President of Royal
Geographical Soc., 1888-1890; Royal Medal of Royal Soc., 1897.
Publications: "Lectures on Geography"; "Finances and Public
Works of India" (jointly with his brother, Sir John S.); various
scientific memoirs.--["Ency. Brit.," and "Who's Who."]
_fa fa_, Sir Henry STRACHEY (1736-1810), Bart., private secretary to Lord Clive in India; Joint Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1782; cr. Baronet, 1801.--["Dict. N. Biog.," Suppl. iii.]
_me fa_, Lieutenant-General KIRKPATRICK, W. (1754-1812), Orientalist; military secretary to Marquess Wellesley; Resident at Poona; translated Persian works; expert in Oriental tongues and in Indian manners, customs, and laws.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa_, Edward STRACHEY (1774-1832), Chief Examiner of correspondence to the India House, the other two being Peacock and James Mill (secretaries' work, writing despatches, etc.).
_fa bro_, Sir Henry STRACHEY, Bart. (1772-1858), distinguished Indian Civilian, described by James Mill ("Hist. Brit. India," vol. vi., chap, vii.) as "the most intelligent of the Company's servants."
_fa bro_, Richard STRACHEY, Resident at Lucknow and Gwalior.
_me si_, Isabella Barbara BULLER, a well-known centre of literary and political society.
_bro_, Sir John STRACHEY, G.C.S.I., eminent Indian statesman; Lieutenant-Governor of the N.W. Provinces; Financial Member of Governor-General's Council; Member of Council of India. Publications: "Finance and Public Works of India," 1882 (jointly with his brother, Sir Richard S.); "Hastings and the Rohilla War," 1892; "India," 1888, third edition, 1903.--["Ency. Brit.," and "Who's Who," 1904.]
_bro_, Colonel Henry STRACHEY, Tibetan explorer, gold medal of Royal Geographical Soc., 1852.
_bro_, Sir Edward STRACHEY (d. 1904), Bart., author of "Hebrew Politics in the Time of Sargon and Sennacherib."
_bro_, George STRACHEY (1873-1890), Chargé d'Affaires and Minister Resident at Dresden.
_bro son_, Sir Arthur STRACHEY (1858-1901) [son of Sir John S. and of Katherine, daughter of George BATTEN], Chief Justice Allahabad, æt. thirty-nine; d. æt. forty-three.
_bro son_, John St. Loe STRACHEY (b. 1860) [son of Sir Edward S. and Mary, sister of John Addington SYMONDS, writer and critic], editor of the "Spectator."--["Who's Who."]
_me si son_, Charles BULLER (1806-1848), distinguished politician, sent as secretary with Lord Durham to Canada, 1838; Chief Poor-Law Commissioner.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_me si son_, Sir Arthur BULLER, Judge of the Supreme Court, Calcutta.
_fa fa bro_, John STRACHEY, LL.D. Cambridge, Archdeacon of Suffolk, Prebendary of Llandaff, preacher at the Rolls.
_fa fa fa fa_, John STRACHEY (1671-1743), F.R.S., geologist, said to have first suggested theory of stratification in his "Observations on Different Strata of Earths and Minerals," 1727.--["Dict. N. Biog.," Suppl. iii.]
_Wife and her kinsfolk:_
_wi_, Jane Maria, née GRANT, second wife, authoress of "Lay
Texts," "Poets on Poets," "Memoirs of a Highland Lady,"
etc.--["Who's Who," 1904.]
_wi fa fa_, Sir J.P. GRANT (1774-1848), Chief Justice of Supreme
Court, Calcutta.--["Dict. N. Biog.," xxii. 398.]
_wi fa_, Sir J.P. GRANT, G.C.M.G., K.C.B. (1807-1893), Indian and
Colonial Governor; Member of Council; Lieutenant-Governor of
Central Provinces of India; Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal;
Governor of Jamaica (1866-1873).--["Dict. N. Biog.," Suppl. iii.
341.]
_wife's me bro son_, Sir Trevor Chichele PLOWDEN, K.C.S.I.,
Resident at Kashmir, Hyderabad, and Baghdad.
_wife's me bro son_, Sir Henry Meredith PLOWDEN, Senior Judge of
Chief Court, Punjab (1880-1894).--["Who's Who," 1904.]
_son_, Giles Lytton STRACHEY, Scholarship at Trinity Coll., Cambridge; Chancellor's medal for English verse.
_son_, Oliver STRACHEY, Eton scholarship.
_son_, James Beaumont STRACHEY, scholarship at St. Paul's School.
_da_, Joan Pernel STRACHEY, lecturer on Old French at Royal Holloway College.
_da_, Marjorie Colvile STRACHEY, prize offered in 1904 by the British Ambassador in Paris to male and female undergraduates of all colleges in Great Britain, for examination in French; scholarship at Royal Holloway College, 1904.
Aubrey #STRAHAN# (b. 1852), F.R.S., district geologist on the
Geological Survey of England and Wales; author of geological
memoirs on Chester, Rhyl, Flint, Isle of Purbeck, Weymouth, South
Wales Coalfield, etc., and contributions to scientific
journals.--["Who's Who."]
_me fa_, Sir George FISHER, General of Royal Artillery; Commandant of Woolwich Arsenal.
_bro_, George STRAHAN, second for Pollock Medal at Addiscombe; Dep. Surveyor-General of the Trigonometrical Survey of India, 1889; Colonel of Bengal Engineers.
_bro_, Charles STRAHAN, Lieutenant-General of Bengal Engineers; Surveyor-General of India, 1895.
_fa bro son_, Herbert KYNASTON (b. 1835), D.D., Camden Medallist and Browne Medallist, 1855; bracketed Senior Classic, 1857; Fellow of St. John's Coll., Cambridge, 1858; Principal of Cheltenham Coll., 1874-1888; Professor of Greek and Classical Literature, University of Durham, 1889.--["Who's Who."]
John William #STRUTT# (b. 1842), third Baron #RAYLEIGH#, D.C.L.
(Hon. Oxon.), LL.D., O.M., F.R.S., Hon. Sc.D. (Cambridge and
Dublin), Professor of Natural Philosophy, Royal Inst., since
1887; Senior Wrangler and Smith's Prizeman, 1865; Professor of
Experimental Physics, Cambridge, 1879-1884; Secretary Roy. Soc.,
1887; author of "Theory of Sound," and many scientific
papers.--["Who's Who," and "Ency. Brit."]
_bro_, Hon. Edward Gerald STRUTT, successful land-agent and surveyor.
_me si son_, Ronald Montague BURROWS (b. 1867), Professor of Greek in the University Coll. of S. Wales and Monmouthshire.--["Who's Who."]
_son_, Hon. Robert John STRUTT (b. 1875), F.R.S., Fellow of Trinity Coll., Cambridge; author of papers on radium, etc.--["Who's Who."]
_me fa bro_, Major-General Edward VICARS, R.E., distinguished himself under Lord John Hay on North Coast of Spain; brevet majority and Spanish orders for gallantry before San Sebastian in 1836; selected for special duty with the fleet in 1854, but taken ill on the way out, and retired on full pay.
_wife_, see BALFOUR.
William #THOMSON# (b. 1824), Baron #KELVIN# (1892), P.C., O.M.,
F.R.S., and numerous other distinctions; eminent mathematical
physicist; inventor of mirror galvanometer, of siphon recorder
in connection with submarine telegraphy, of a new form of
mariner's compass, etc.; acted as electrical engineer for many
submarine cables; President of British Assoc., 1871, of Royal
Soc., 1890-1895, and four times of Royal Soc., Edinburgh; author
of numerous mathematical and physical memoirs.--["Who's Who," and
"Ency. Brit."]
_fa_, James THOMSON (1786-1849), son of a small farmer in co. Down; commenced the study of mathematics on his own initiative; became Professor of Mathematics at Belfast, 1815, then at University of Glasgow, 1832; also a good classical scholar and astronomer; wrote the authorized mathematical text-books of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_bro_, James THOMSON (1822-1892), F.R.S., Hon. LL.D., Glasgow and Dublin, Professor of Civil Engineering, first at Queen's Coll., Belfast, 1857-1873, then at Glasgow, 1873-1889. Invented the "vortex water-wheel," 1850; numerous memoirs on physical investigations.--["Dict. N. Biog.," and "Ency. Brit."]
_bro_, John THOMSON, died young, having contracted hospital fever during medical study at Glasgow. Considered as able as his brothers.
_si son_, James Thomson BOTTOMLEY, F.R.S. (q.v.).
_si son_, George KING, actuary and mathematician; author of many original papers, and of an authoritative work on actuarial subjects.
Sir John Isaac #THORNYCROFT# (b. 1843), LL.D., F.R.S.,
Vice-President of Inst. of Naval Architecture, etc.; founded
shipbuilding works at Chiswick, 1866; introduced improvements in
naval architecture and marine engineering, which have promoted
high speeds at sea.--["Who's Who."]
_me fa_, John FRANCIS (1780-1861), sculptor, pupil of Chantrey; exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1820-1856; his works include busts of Miss Horatio Nelson, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the Duke of Wellington.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa_, Thomas THORNYCROFT (1815-1885), sculptor; executed the group of Commerce on the Albert Memorial, and other statues.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_me_, Mary THORNYCROFT (1814-1895), sculptor.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_bro_, William Hamo THORNYCROFT (b. 1850), R.A., sculptor. His works include national monument to General Gordon in Trafalgar Square and in Melbourne; John Bright in Rochdale; Lord Granville in Houses of Parliament; and very many others.--["Who's Who."]
Charles Sissmore #TOMES# (b. 1846), F.R.S., late lecturer on dental
anatomy at Dental Hosp. of London; Crown nominee on General
Medical Council, 1898, etc.; author of a "Manual of Dental
Anatomy, Human and Comparative," and of many memoirs on
odontology in "Phil. Trans.," etc.--["Who's Who."]
_fa_, Sir John TOMES (1815-1895), F.R.S., dental surgeon; invented dental forceps; memoirs on histology of bone and teeth; delivered lectures at Middlesex Hosp., which marked new era in dentistry; induced Royal Coll. of Surgeons to grant license in dental surgery; one of the chief founders of the Odontological Soc., 1856, and of the Dental Hosp., 1858; secured passing of Dentists Act, 1878; wrote well-known treatise on "Dental Surgery," and other works.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa bro_, Robert Fisher TOMES (1824-1904), authority on insectivora and chiroptera; edited Bell's "British Quadrupeds"; wrote natural history sections for his own and neighbouring county histories.
_me bro_, George SIBLEY, C.E.I., went out to India as a civil engineer, and without influence rose to be chief engineer of the East Indian Railways, and did much important work in bridge-building.
James William Helenus #TRAIL# (b. 1851), F.R.S., Regius Professor
of Botany, University of Aberdeen, since 1877; naturalist of an
exploring expedition in N. Brazil, 1873-1875; has been largely
occupied in the administrative work of the University and of
other educational bodies in N. Scotland; has published numerous
botanical and zoological papers in scientific journals.--["Who's
Who."]
_fa_, Samuel TRAIL, LL.D., D.D. (both hon.), obtained Hutton Scholarship in Aberdeen as the most distinguished graduate of his year, 1825; Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Aberdeen, 1867; Moderator of Church of Scotland, 1874.
_me bro_, Hercules SCOTT, LL.D., Professor of Moral Philosophy in the King's Coll. and University, Old Aberdeen, 1820-1860; said to have taken a large part in the administration of the University.
_bro_, John Arbuthnot TRAIL, LL.D., Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh; prominent in administration connected with the University of Edinburgh, the Church of Scotland, and other public bodies.
_me si son_, David BROWN, General; formerly Commissioner of Lower Burmah.
John #VENN# (b. 1834), D.Sc., F.R.S., Fellow of Caius Coll.,
Cambridge; President, 1903; for many years lecturer on Moral
Philosophy at Cambridge; author of many works on logic, and of "A
Biographical History of Gonville and Caius Coll."--["Who's Who."]
_fa fa_, John VENN (1759-1813), scientific and mechanical interests; one of the first to adopt vaccination, applying it to his own children, and recommending it in the parish of Clapham, where he was rector in 1800; the principal founder of the Church Missionary Soc., 1798, the rules of which he sketched out much as they are still retained.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa_, Henry VENN (1796-1873), Wrangler and Fellow of Queens' Coll., Cambridge; for many years secretary and practically manager of the Church Missionary Soc., the income of which increased under his guidance to over £100,000 per annum; vicar of Drypool, 1827, and of St. John's, Holloway, London, 1834-1846.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa bro_, John VENN (1802-1890), Wrangler and Fellow of Queens' Coll., Cambridge; much practical skill and success in philanthropic schemes in his parish of St. Peter's at Hereford; he started a steam corn-mill, which was so successful that it led to many other developments in the way of aiding the industrious--e.g., a loan department, which, by 1848, had advanced some £18,000 to various poor and struggling persons, and an extensive experimental garden for teaching garden allotment and small farm work, etc.
_fa si son_, Sir James Fitzjames STEPHEN (1829-1894), distinguished judge; in earlier life journalist, essayist, and reviewer; then Legal Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India; author of legal works.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa si son_, Sir Leslie STEPHEN (1832-1904), K.C.B., Litt.D., at one time famous as a mountaineer; eminent literary editor and critic; President of the Ethical Soc.; editor of the earlier volumes of the "Dictionary of National Biography"; author of many works, including a biography of his brother.
_fa fa fa_, Henry VENN (1725-1797), an evangelical divine, a man of remarkable energy and force of character; Fellow of Queens' Coll., Cambridge, 1749-1757; curate of Clapham, 1754; vicar of Huddersfield, 1759; rector of Yelling, 1771-1797; author of the "Complete Duty of Man."--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa fa fa fa_, Richard VENN (1691-1740), a learned divine; rector of St. Antholin's, London, 1725-1739. He acquired some prominence by publicly objecting to the appointment of Dr. Rundle, a latitudinarian, to the bishopric of Gloucester, on the ground of unorthodox views.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa si da_, Emelia BATTEN, afterwards Mrs. Russell Gurney; distinguished by her artistic taste and accomplishments; author of "Dante's Pilgrims' Progress."--["Letters," with a brief biography, by Ellen Gurney, 1902.]
_me fa bro_, Daniel SYKES (1766-1832), F.R.S., Fellow of Trinity Coll., Cambridge; Recorder and M.P. for Hull; prominent as an early supporter of the Reform Movement.
_me fa fa_, Joseph SYKES (1723-1805), large and successful merchant in Hull, where he was the principal founder of the trade in Swedish iron; Mayor and Sheriff of Hull, and D.L. of the E. Riding.
For further particulars of the Venn family, see "Venn Family Annals," by Dr. John Venn (Macmillan and Co., 1904).
Robert #WARINGTON# (b. 1838), F.R.S., Examiner in Agricultural
Science to the Board of Education since 1894; Professor of Rural
Economy, Oxford, 1894-1897; author of twenty-six papers in the
"Transactions" of the Chemical Soc., "The Chemistry of the Farm"
(seventeenth edition), "Lectures on the Rothamsted Experiments,"
and "Lectures on the Physical Properties of the Soil."--["Who's
Who."]
_fa_, Robert WARINGTON (1807-1867), F.R.S., chemist, pharmacist, and naturalist; founded in 1841, and was for ten years secretary of the Chemical Soc.; originator of the Aquarium; the author of many papers on chemical and natural history subjects.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_me fa_, George JACKSON (1792-1861), medical practitioner and inventor; Society of Arts medal for improvements in an apparatus for obtaining light; invented a dividing machine for ruling micrometers, which is still in use; introduced several improvements into the microscope; and was President of the Royal Microscopical Soc.
_bro_, George WARINGTON, B.A., first-class Natural Science Tripos, Cambridge; died at the age of thirty-three, but had already made a considerable reputation as an author, critic, teacher, and speaker.
_fa si son_, John BROWN, C.M.G.; engineer-in-chief to Cape Government railways.
General Sir Charles #WARREN# (b. 1840), K.C.B., G.C.M.G., R.E.,
F.R.S. Conducted excavations at Jerusalem, and reconnaissance of
Palestine for the Pal. Expl. Fund, 1867-1870; Administrator and
Commander-in-Chief, Griqualand West; commanded troops Northern
Border Expedition, 1879; Bechuanaland Expedition, 1884-1885;
Suakim, 1886; Commissioner Metropolitan Police, 1886-1888;
commanded troops Straits Settlements, 1889-1894;
Lieutenant-General in command of 5th Div. South African Field
Force, 1899-1900. Author of works concerning the archæology of
Jerusalem; also of "On Veldt in the Seventies," and of "The
Ancient Cubit and Our Weights and Measures."--["Who's Who."]
_fa fa_, John WARREN (1767-1838), Dean of Bangor, N.W.
_fa fa bro_, Frederick WARREN (1775-1848), Vice-Admiral; defeated Danish gunboat flotilla in the Belt, 1809; Commander-in-Chief at the Cape, 1831-1834; Admiral-Superintendent at Plymouth, 1837-1841.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa fa bro_, Pelham WARREN (1778-1835), M.D., F.R.S., Physician at St. George's Hosp.; Harveian orator, 1826; Physician to the King.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa_, Sir Charles WARREN (1798-1866), K.C.B., Major-General; served in India, 1840-1848; in China, 1841-1844; in the Crimea, 1854-1856.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa bro_, John WARREN (1796-1852), F.R.S., mathematician; Fellow and Tutor of Jesus Coll., Cambridge; Chancellor of Bangor.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_son_, Richard WARREN (b. 1876), first-class honours, Natural Science, Oxford; scholarship in Anatomy and Physiology, London Hosp.; Radcliffe Travelling Fellow, Oxford; house physician, house surgeon, and senior resident accoucheur, London Hosp.
_fa fa fa_, Richard WARREN (1731-1797), M.D., F.R.S., Fellow of Jesus Coll., Cambridge; Physician to George III., and to George, Prince of Wales.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
Bertram Coghill Alan #WINDLE# (b. 1858), F.R.S., President of
Queen's Coll., Cork; M.D., D.Sc., Dublin; late Dean of the
Medical Faculty and Professor of Anatomy and Anthropology,
University of Birmingham; author of scientific papers, books on
anatomy, anthropology, and literature, "Tyson's Pygmies of the
Ancients," "Life in Early Britain," etc.--["Who's Who."]
_me bro_, Colonel Kendal COGHILL (b. 1832), C.B., served in Burmah, 1853-1855; Adjutant of 2nd European Bengal Fusiliers during Indian Mutiny, 1857-1858; commanded 19th Hussars in Egyptian Campaign, 1882.--["Who's Who."]
_me fa_, Admiral Sir J. COGHILL.
_me me fa_, Charles Kendal BUSHE (1767-1843), Solicitor-General for Ireland, 1805-1822; Chief Justice of King's Bench, 1822-1841. --["Dict. N. Biog."]
_me bro son_, Seymour Coghill Hort BUSHE (b. 1853), K.C., Senior Moderator and Berkeley gold medallist; gold medallist in oratory, Dublin; Senior Crown Prosecutor for County and City of Dublin, 1901.--["Who's Who."]
_me si son_, Herbert Wilson GREENE, well-known fellow and lecturer, Magdalen Coll., Oxford; author of version of "Rubayat" of Omar Khayum, etc.
_me si son_, Boyle SOMERVILLE, Commander, R.N., author of papers on the ethnology of the Polynesian race in the "Anthropological Journal."
_me si da_, Edith Oenone SOMERVILLE, M.F.H., author of "Reminiscences of an Irish R.M.," "All on the Irish Shore," and other novels.
Horace Bolingbroke #WOODWARD# (b. 1848), F.R.S., Assistant Director
Geological Survey of England and Wales; author of "Geology of
England and Wales," and other works.--["Who's Who."]
_fa fa_, Samuel WOODWARD (1790-1838), geologist and antiquary; clerk in Gurney's Bank, Norwich, 1820-1838; studied history and archæology; formed collection of fossils and antiquities, and published works relating to Norfolk.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa_, Samuel Pickworth WOODWARD (1821-1865), Professor of Geology and Natural History at Royal Agricultural Coll., Cirencester, 1845; first-class assistant in department of geology and mineralogy, British Museum, 1848-1865; author of "Manual of the Mollusca" (1851-1856).--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa bro_, Bernard Bolingbroke WOODWARD (1816-1869), librarian in ordinary to Queen Victoria at Windsor.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa bro_, Henry WOODWARD (b. 1832), LL.D., F.R.S., President of Palæontographical Soc. since 1896; Vice-President of Royal Microscopical Soc.; late Keeper Geological Department, British Museum (Natural History); author of many works on palæontology, zoology, etc.--["Who's Who."]
_bro_, Bernard Henry WOODWARD, Director of Museum at Perth, W. Australia.
_bro_, Herbert Willoughby WOODWARD, Archdeacon of Magila, Zanzibar.
_fa bro son_, Harry Page WOODWARD (b. 1858), Government Geologist for W. Australia, 1887-1895.
_fa bro son_, Martin Fountain WOODWARD, Demonstrator of Biology, Royal Coll. of Science (obituary in "Nature").
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