bro, Horace DARWIN (b. 1851), F.R.S., engineer and mechanician; joint founder of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company and its proprietor. It is now a limited company, of which he is chairman.—["Who’s Who.”]
More distant relation:
fa fa si son, Francis GALTON, F.R.S. (q.v.).
Sir John #EVANS# (b. 1823), K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D.,
Sc.D., F.R.S.,
President of the Royal Numismatic
Society since 1874; trustee of
the British Museum; treasurer
and vice-president of the Royal
Society during twenty years;
has been president of numerous
learned societies; author
of works on the coins of the Ancient
Britons, and on their stone
and bronze implements.—["Who’s Who,”
and “Ency. Brit.”]
fa fa, Lewis EVANS (1755-1827), F.R.S., F.A.S., mathematician; first Mathematical Master of R.M.A., Woolwich.—["Dict. N. Biog.”]
fa, Arthur Benoni EVANS (1781-1854), D.D., miscellaneous writer; Professor of Classics and History, R.M.C., 1805-1822; headmaster of Market Bosworth Grammar School, 1825-1854.—["Dict. N. Biog.”]
me bro and wi fa, John DICKINSON (1782-1869), F.R.S., inventor of paper-making machine.
bro, Sebastian EVANS, LL.D., poet, artist, and author.
si, Anne EVANS (1820-1870), poet and musician, composer.—["Dict. N. Biog.”]
son, Arthur John EVANS (b. 1851), D.Litt. (Oxon), Hon. D.Litt. (Dublin), Hon. LL.D. (Edinburgh), F.R.S., Keeper of Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, since 1884; in 1893 started investigations in Crete, which resulted in the discovery of the pre-Phoenician script; in 1900-1905 excavated the prehistoric palace of Knossos.—["Who’s Who.”]
me bro son and wi bro, John DICKINSON (1815-1876), writer on India, and founder of Indian Reform Society, 1853.—["Dict. N. Biog.”]
Right Hon. Sir Edward #FRY# (b. 1827), D.C.L., LL.D.,
F.R.S., Judge
of High Court, Chancery Division,
1877-1883; Lord Justice of
Appeal, 1883-1892; President
of the Royal Com. on the Irish Land
Acts, 1897-1898; Chairman
of the Court of Arbitration under the
Metropolitan Water Act, 1902;
member of the Permanent Court of
International Arbitration
at the Hague; author of a “Treatise on
the Specific Performance of
Contracts,” of “British Mosses,”
and
“The Mycetozoa.”—["Who’s
Who.”]
fa bro, Francis FRY (1803-1886), member of the firm of J.S. Fry and Co., Bristol; a great authority on bibliography.—["Dict. N. Biog.”]
bro, Right Hon. Lewis FRY (b. 1832), M.P. for Bristol, 1878-1885; N. Bristol, 1885-1892, and 1895-1900.—["Who’s Who.”]
bro, Joseph Storrs FRY, has maintained and extended a large manufacturing business, and taken an active part in philanthropic work.
fa fa fa, Joseph FRY (1728-1787), practised medicine in Bristol, afterwards manufactured cocoa and chocolate; started type-founding business with William Pine, 1764.—["Dic. N. Biog.”]