me fa bro, William STRUTT (1756-1830), ingenious mechanician and inventor; friend of Erasmus Darwin, R.L. Edgeworth, Robert Owen, Joseph Lancaster, Samuel Bentham Dalton, etc.; originator and designer of the first Derby Infirmary.—["Dict. N. Biog.”]
me fa bro son, Edward STRUTT (1801-1880), created Baron BELPER, 1856; M.P., F.R.S.; a philosophical Radical, intimate with Bentham, the Mills, and Macaulay; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1852-1854; President of University Coll., London, 1871.—["Dict. N. Biog.”]
me fa bro son, Anthony
STRUTT (1791-1875), ingenious
mechanician.
me me si son, Sir Charles FOX (1810-1874), constructing engineer of London and Birmingham Railway; knighted after designing Exhibition buildings in Hyde Park, 1851; made first narrow-gauge line in India; built Berlin Waterworks.—["Dict. N. Biog.”]
Sir Archibald #GEIKIE# (b. 1835), F.R.S., and many
foreign
distinctions; Director-General
Geological Survey of United
Kingdom, and Director Museum
Practical Geology in Jermyn Street,
1882-1901; medallist of the
Royal and other societies; Secretary
of the Royal Society; author
of numerous works on geology, also
of biographies of David Forbes,
Sir R. Murchison, and Sir A.
Ramsay.—["Who’s
Who,” “Ency. Brit.”]
fa, James Stewart GEIKIE (1811-1883), musician and musical critic; author of much psalmody, and of several well-known Scottish melodies, such as “My Heather Hills.”
fa bro, Walter GEIKIE (1795-1837). R.S.A., painter and draughtsman; author of “Etchings Illustrative of Scottish Character and Scenery.”—["Dict. N. Biog.”]
me bro, William THOMS, master mariner; subsequently teacher of navigation in New York; author of an elaborate treatise on navigation.
bro, James GEIKIE (b. 1839), LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S.; Professor of Geology and Mineralogy since 1882, and Dean of the Faculty of Science Edinburgh; author of many works on geology, and of “Songs and Lyrics by Heinrich Heine.”—["Who’s Who,” and “Ency. Brit.”]
fa bro son, Cunningham GEIKIE (b. 1824), LL.D., D.D., a clergyman; author of many religious works.—["Who’s Who.”]
fa bro son, Walter Bayne GEIKIE, Professor of Anatomy, and Dean of Medical Faculty, Trinity Coll., Toronto.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Haversham #GODWIN-AUSTEN#
(b. 1834),
F.R.S., geologist; Topographical
Assistant to the Trigonometric
Survey of India; surveyed
the high country and glaciers of
Kashmir and by Ladak, also
between Darjeeling and Punakha;
numerous scientific memoirs.—["Who’s
Who.”]
fa fa fa, Robert AUSTEN, archaeologist and coin collector; he was one of the few in his time who understood the value of local maps; a good surveyor of his own property and neighbourhood.