Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) - An Index to Kinships in Near Degrees between Persons Whose Achievements Are Honourable, and Have Been Publicly Recorded by Edgar Schuster;Francis Galton
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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."] |
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