_fa si son_, Sir Leslie STEPHEN (1832-1904), K.C.B., Litt.D., at one time famous as a mountaineer; eminent literary editor and critic; President of the Ethical Soc.; editor of the earlier volumes of the "Dictionary of National Biography"; author of many works, including a biography of his brother. _fa fa fa_, Henry VENN (1725-1797), an evangelical divine, a man of remarkable energy and force of character; Fellow of Queens' Coll., Cambridge, 1749-1757; curate of Clapham, 1754; vicar of Huddersfield, 1759; rector of Yelling, 1771-1797; author of the "Complete Duty of Man."--["Dict. N. Biog."] _fa fa fa fa_, Richard VENN (1691-1740), a learned divine; rector of St. Antholin's, London, 1725-1739. He acquired some prominence by publicly objecting to the appointment of Dr. Rundle, a latitudinarian, to the bishopric of Gloucester, on the ground of unorthodox views.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _fa si da_, Emelia BATTEN, afterwards Mrs. Russell Gurney; distinguished by her artistic taste and accomplishments; author of "Dante's Pilgrims' Progress."--["Letters," with a brief biography, by Ellen Gurney, 1902.] _me fa bro_, Daniel SYKES (1766-1832), F.R.S., Fellow of Trinity Coll., Cambridge; Recorder and M.P. for Hull; prominent as an early supporter of the Reform Movement. _me fa fa_, Joseph SYKES (1723-1805), large and successful merchant in Hull, where he was the principal founder of the trade in Swedish iron; Mayor and Sheriff of Hull, and D.L. of the E. Riding. For further particulars of the Venn family, see "Venn Family Annals," by Dr. John Venn (Macmillan and Co., 1904). Robert #WARINGTON# (b. 1838), F.R.S., Examiner in Agricultural Science to the Board of Education since 1894; Professor of Rural Economy, Oxford, 1894-1897; author of twenty-six papers in the "Transactions" of the Chemical Soc., "The Chemistry of the Farm" (seventeenth edition), "Lectures on the Rothamsted Experiments," and "Lectures on the Physical Properties of the Soil."--["Who's Who."] _fa_, Robert WARINGTON (1807-1867), F.R.S., chemist, pharmacist, and naturalist; founded in 1841, and was for ten years secretary of the Chemical Soc.; originator of the Aquarium; the author of many papers on chemical and natural history subjects.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _me fa_, George JACKSON (1792-1861), medical practitioner and inventor; Society of Arts medal for improvements in an apparatus for obtaining light; invented a dividing machine for ruling micrometers, which is still in use; introduced several improvements into the microscope; and was President of the Royal Microscopical Soc. _bro_, George WARINGTON, B.A., first-class Natural Science Tripos, Cambridge; died at the age of thirty-three, but had already made a considerable reputation as an author, critic, teacher, and speaker. _fa si son_, John BROWN, C.M.G.; engineer-in-chief to Cape Government railways.