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).
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.

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