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 bro son son, Robert Offley Ashburton CREWE-MILNES, first Earl of CREWE, son of Lord Houghton; Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 1892-1895.—­["Who’s Who.”]

#NORTHBROOK#, Earl.—­See BARING.

Robert Harris Inglis #PALGRAVE# (b. 1827), F.R.S., economist and
    statistician; editor of the “Economist”; also of “Dictionary of
    Political Economy.”—­["Who’s Who.”]

me fa, Dawson TURNER (1775-1858), F.R.S., botanist and antiquary.—­["Dict.  N. Biog.”]

me fa bro, Joseph TURNER, Senior Wrangler, 1768.

fa, Sir Francis PALGRAVE (1788-1861) (son of Meyer COHEN, adopted the name Palgrave in 1823), historian; deputy-keeper, and assisted in the publication, of H.M.  Records.  Author of the “Rise and Progress of the English Commonwealth,” 1832; “History of England and Normandy,” 1851; and other works; greatly promoted study of mediaeval history; knighted, 1832.—­["Dict.  N. Biog.”]

me, Elizabeth, nee Dawson TURNER, assisted her husband in his literary work.—­[Unpublished information.]

me bro, Dawson William TURNER (1815-1885), D.C.L., philanthropist and educational writer; Demy of Magdalen Coll., Oxford.

bro, Francis Turner PALGRAVE (1824-1897), poet and art critic; first-class Lit.  Hum.; Professor of Poetry at Oxford; editor of “Golden Treasury”; author of many critical essays and other publications.—­["Dict.  N. Biog.,” Suppl. iii.]

bro, W. Gifford PALGRAVE (1826-1888), traveller and diplomatist; at twenty years of age gained first-class Lit.  Hum. and second-class Math.; became Roman Catholic, and travelled as Jesuit missionary in Syria and Arabia, disguised for the purpose.  Author of “A Year’s Journey through Eastern and Central Arabia.”  Severed his connection with the Jesuits in 1865, and thenceforward served as English diplomatist in various distant countries.—­["Dict.  N. Biog.”]

bro, Sir Reginald F.D.  PALGRAVE (1829-1904), K.C.B., Clerk of the House of Commons.  Author of “Oliver Cromwell the Protector,” etc.—­["Who’s Who.”]

me si son, Sir Joseph Dalton HOOKER, F.R.S. (q.v.).

Lawrence #PARSONS# (b. 1840), fourth Earl of ROSSE, D.C.L., LL.D.,
    Camb. and Dublin, F.R.S.; Chancellor of University of Dublin;
    author of “Memoirs of Heat of Moon and Stars” (based on
    experiments with the famous reflecting telescope made by his
    father), and on other subjects.—­["Who’s Who.”]

fa, William PARSONS (1800-1867), third Earl of ROSSE, Pres.  R.S.; constructor of the great reflecting telescope at Parsonstown, and first discoverer by its means of nebulae and other celestial phenomena.—­["Dict.  N. Biog.”]

bro, Charles Algernon PARSONS (b. 1854), D.Sc., F.R.S.; notable in the development of turbine navigation; proprietor and director of electrical and engineering works.

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