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).

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.”]

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