Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 108 pages of information about Noteworthy Families (Modern Science).

Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 108 pages of information about Noteworthy Families (Modern Science).

fa fa, Thomas BOOTH, successful merchant and shipowner at Liverpool.

fa bro, Henry BOOTH (1788-1869), railway projector; co-operated with Stephenson in applying steam to locomotion, published much relating to railways, and invented mechanical contrivances still in use on railways; secretary and then railway director.—­["Dict.  N. Biog.,” v. 382.]

fa bro, James BOOTH (1796-1880), C.B., Parliamentary draughtsman; became Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade.

me si son, Charles CROMPTON, Fourth Wrangler, Q.C., and for some years M.P. for the Leek Division of Staffordshire.

me si son, Henry CROMPTON, a leader in the Positivist Community; authority on Trades Union Law, and author of “Industrial Conciliation.”

me si son, Sir Henry Enfield ROSCOE, F.R.S. (q.v.)

Robert Holford Macdowall #BOSANQUET#, F.R.S. (b. 1841).  Fellow of
    St. John’s Coll., Oxford; author of many mathematical and
    physical memoirs, chiefly in the “Philosophical Magazine.”

fa fa bro, Sir John Bernard BOSANQUET (1773-1847), Judge of Common Pleas, 1830; Lord Commissioner of Great Seal, 1835-1836.—­["Dict.  N. Biog.”]

bro, Bernard BOSANQUET (b. 1848), Prof. of Moral Philosophy, St. Andrews, since 1903; formerly Fellow of University Coll., Oxford; worked in connection with Charity Organization Society; author of many books on philosophy.—­["Who’s Who.”]

bro, Vice-Admiral Day Hort BOSANQUET (b. 1843), Commander-in-Chief West Indian Station since 1904; previously Commander-in-Chief East Indian.—­["Who’s Who.”]

fa son, Charles Bertie Pulleine BOSANQUET (b. 1834), a founder and the first secretary of the Charity Organization Society.

me fa bro, Hay MACDOWALL (d. 1806), Commander-in-Chief of Madras Presidency.

fa son son, Robert Carr BOSANQUET (b. 1871), archaeologist, director of British School of Archaeology at Athens.

me si son, Ralph DUNDAS, head of large and influential firm of Dundas and Wilson, Writers to the Signet, Edinburgh.  His relatives on his father’s side include his—­

    fa, John DUNDAS, worked up the business of Dundas and Wilson
    into its present position.

    fa fa son, Sir David DUNDAS (1799-1877), Judge-Advocate-General
    and Privy Councillor, 1849.—­["Dict.  N. Biog.”]

    fa fa son, George DUNDAS, Judge in Scotch Courts under the
    title of Lord MANOR.

    fa fa son son, David DUNDAS, K.C. (b. 1854), Judge in Scotch
    Courts under the title of Lord DUNDAS; Solicitor-General for
    Scotland, 1903.—­["Who’s Who.”]

James Thomson #BOTTOMLEY# (Hon. LL.D., Glasgow), D.Sc., F.R.S.,
    electrical engineer (1870-1899); Arnott and Thomson, Demonstrator
    in the University of Glasgow.—­["Who’s Who.”]

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