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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_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 |
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