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 bro, Edmund FRY (1754-1835), M.D. of Edinburgh; devoted his life to the business of type-founding, and to the philological studies connected with it.—­["Dic.  N. Biog.”]

wife, Mariabella, nee HODGKIN, dau of the historian.

Francis #GALTON# (b. 1822), D.C.L., Hon. Sc.D. (Camb.), F.R.S.,
    traveller, anthropologist and biometrician; author of many works
    and memoirs on these and analogous subjects, including
    meteorology, heredity, identification by fingerprints; latterly a
    promoter of the study of Eugenics.  Gold medal R. Geog.  Soc.,
    1853, for travels in Damaraland, S. Africa; Royal medal, 1886,
    and Darwin medal, 1903, of the Royal Soc., for applications of
    measurement to human faculty; Huxley medal of the Anthropol. 
    Institute, 1901.—­["Ency.  Brit.,” and “Who’s Who.”]

fa si, SCHIMMELPENNINCK (1778-1856), Mrs. Mary Anne, author of various works, mostly theological, and on the Port Royalists and Moravians.—­["Dic.  N. Biog.”]

fa fa fa, Samuel GALTON (1720-1799), cultured Quaker philanthropist, contractor and banker.—­[See life of above M.A.S., and the “Annual Register.”]

fa me 1/2 bro, Robert Barclay ALLARDICE (1779-1854), commonly known as Capt.  BARCLAY of Ury, pedestrian, noted for his walking feats, agriculturist.—­["Dic.  N. Biog.”]

me fa, Erasmus DARWIN, M.D., F.R.S.—­See DARWIN.

me 1/2 bro son, Charles Robert DARWIN, F.R.S., the naturalist.—­See DARWIN.

si son, Edward G. WHELER (b. 1850), a founder and president of the Land Agents’ Society; commissioner and estate agent during sixteen years for 155,000 acres of various descriptions of property.

fa bro son, Sir Douglas GALTON (1822-1901), K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., passed from Woolwich to Royal Engineers with the best examination then on record, obtaining first prize in every subject, 1840; Inspector of Railways, and Secretary of Railway Dept., Board of Trade, 1856; Assistant Inspector-General of Fortifications, 1860; designed and constructed the Herbert Hospital at Woolwich; Director of Public Works and Building in H.M.  Works, 1870-1875; General Secretary of British Assoc., 1870-1895; President of it, 1895; authority on hospital construction, and on the sanitation, ventilation, etc., of public buildings.—­["Dict.  N. Biog.,” Suppl. ii.]

His kindred by his mother’s side are:

    me fa fa, Jedediah STRUTT (1726-1797), hosiery manufacturer and
    cotton spinner; inventor of machine for making ribbed stockings;
    partner of Sir Richard Arkwright.—­["Dict.  N. Biog.”]

    me fa, Joseph STRUTT (1765-1844), first Mayor of Derby, 1835,
    and donor of the arboretum; great friend of the poet Thomas
    Moore.—­["Dict.  N. Biog.,” and “Life and Letters” of T. Moore.]

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