Noteworthy families (modern science) : $b An index to kinships in near degrees between persons whose achievements are honourable, and have been publicly recordedGalton, Francis
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Noteworthy families (modern science) : $b An index to kinships in near degrees between persons whose achievements are honourable, and have been publicly recorded
Galton, Francis
Eugenics
_fa si son_, William Stanley JEVONS (1835-1882), F.R.S., economist
and logician; Professor of Logic and Political Economy at Owens
Coll., 1866-1879; at University Coll., London, 1876-1880; influential
writer.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_me si son_, Rt. Hon. Charles BOOTH, P.C., F.R.S. (q.v.).
_me si son_, Charles CROMPTON.--See BOOTH.
_me si son_, Henry CROMPTON.--See BOOTH.
#ROSSE#, fourth Earl of.--See PARSONS.
Edward John #ROUTH# (b. 1831), Sc.D., Camb., Sc.D. (hon.), Dublin,
LL.D. (hon.) Glasgow, F.R.S., Senior Wrangler and Smith's prize,
1854; Adams prize, 1877; has had twenty-seven Senior Wranglers
and more than forty Smith's Prizemen for pupils. Author of
several books on theoretical dynamics and of many mathematical
papers.--["Who's Who."]
_fa_, Sir Randolph Isham ROUTH (1782-1858), K.C.B., 1848;
Commissary-General; saw much foreign service, and was senior
commissariat officer at Waterloo.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_me bro_, Hon. Jean Thos. TASCHEREAU, Judge of King's Bench in
Canada.
_me bro_, His Eminence Elzear Alexandre TASCHEREAU (b. 1820), son
of the above; Cardinal-Priest of the Roman Catholic Church, and
Archbishop of Quebec.
_me bro son_, Hon. Sir Henri Thomas TASCHEREAU (b. 1841), Judge of
the Supreme Court of Canada.
_me bro son_, Hon. Henri Elzear TASCHEREAU (b. 1836), Judge of the
Supreme Court of Canada; author of many works on law. (For the
Taschereau family see "Canadian Men and Women of the Time.")
_fa son 1/2 bro_, C.H.F. ROUTH, eminent London physician.
_fa son son_, Amand J. McC. ROUTH, M.D., F.R.C.P., obstetric
physician to Charing Cross Hospital, consulting obstetric physician
to three other hospitals; author of numerous papers and articles on
Midwifery and Gynaecology.--["Who's Who."]
_wife's fa_, Sir George B. AIRY (1801-1892), K.C.B., F.R.S., eminent
mathematician and astronomer; Senior Wrangler, 1823; Astronomer
Royal, 1835-1881.
Dukinfield Henry #SCOTT# (b. 1854), F.R.S., Hon. Keeper Jodrell
Lab., Royal Gardens, Kew; Botanical Sec. of the Linnaean Soc.;
President of the Royal Microscopical Soc.; author of "An
Introduction to Structural Botany," "Studies in Fossil Botany,"
and various papers in "Phil. Trans.," etc.--["Who's Who."]
_fa fa fa_, Thomas SCOTT (1747-1821), Chaplain of Lock Hosp., London,
afterwards Rector of Aston Sandford; produced a commentary on the
Bible in weekly parts from 1788-1792; author of many religious
writings.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa fa_, Thomas SCOTT (1780-1835), Queen's Coll., Cambridge; author
of many religious works.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa_, Sir George Gilbert SCOTT (1811-1878), R.A., restoring architect
to Ely, Hereford, Lichfield, Salisbury, and Ripon Cathedrals;
architect of Indian, Home and Colonial Offices, the Nicolaikirche at
Hamburg, St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, etc.; President Royal
Inst. Brit. Architects, 1873-1876; Professor of
Architecture.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa bro_, Ven. Melville H. SCOTT, Archdeacon of Stafford.
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