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, Sir Henry E. AUSTEN, interested in forestry, and planted largely on his estate; he also knew the value of maps, and had excellent ones of his property.

fa, Robert Alfred C. GODWIN-AUSTEN (1808-1884), F.R.S., geologist, took additional surname of Godwin; wrote important papers on the geology of Devonshire, Southern England, and parts of France. —­["Dict.  N. Biog.”]

me fa, Major-General Sir Thomas H. GODWIN (1784-1853), K.C.B., served in Hanover and the Peninsula, Commander-in-Chief in second Burmese War.—­["Dict.  N. Biog.”]

bro, Harold GODWIN-AUSTEN, Assistant-Commissioner to the Andaman Islands for thirteen years; was selected by Ney Elias to accompany him on a mission to Yarkand and Kashmir; is now a Deputy Commissioner in S. India.

me, Maria Elizabeth GODWIN-AUSTEN, was certainly above the average of women of her time; interested in natural history; drew well in pen and pencil; was an accomplished musician.

si son, Bertram H.M.  HEWETT, civil engineer; surveyed the great glaciers of the Mustakh Range, Kashmir, and elsewhere; is now in sole charge of main shaft of tunnel under the river in New York.

Francis #GOTCH# (b. 1853), D.Sc, F.R.S., Waynflete Professor of
    Physiology at Oxford; formerly Holt Professor of Physiology at
    University Coll., Liverpool; author of many scientific
    papers.—­["Who’s Who.”]

me fa, Ebenezer FOSTER, founder of well-known banking firm of Messrs. Foster, Cambridge.

fa, Fredrick William GOTCH, LL.D., late President of Baptist College, Bristol; Hebrew scholar; member of committee for the authorized version of the Old Testament.

fa bro son, Thomas Cooper GOTCH (b. 1854), well-known painter.—­["Who’s Who.”]

wi bro, Sir Victor HORSLEY (q.v.)

Right Hon. Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone #GRANT DUFF# (b. 1829),
    G.C.S.I., P.C., F.R.S., sometime Under-Secretary of State for
    India and the Colonies, and Governor of Madras; has been Lord
    Rector of Aberdeen University, and president of many learned
    societies; King’s Trustee of British Museum since 1903; author
    of political, literary, and biographical works.—­["Who’s Who.”]

fa, James GRANT DUFF (1789-1858), while still a lieutenant, aged twenty-eight, reduced the Sattara State to order after the overthrow of the Peishwa, and restored it to the descendant of its ancient princes, whom he guided as resident till his health broke down at the age of thirty-three.  Returning to this country, he wrote the “History of the Mahrattas.”—­["Dict.  N. Biog.”]

me fa, Sir Whitelaw AINSLIE (1767-1837), surgeon in the East India Company’s service, 1788-1815; published “Materia Medica of Hindoostan,” and other works.—­["Dict.  N. Biog.”]

son, Arthur Cuninghame GRANT DUFF (b. 1861), lately First Secretary to H.M.’s Legation, Mexico.

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