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 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.

General Sir Charles #WARREN# (b. 1840), K.C.B., G.C.M.G., R.E.,
    F.R.S.  Conducted excavations at Jerusalem, and reconnaissance of
    Palestine for the Pal.  Expl.  Fund, 1867-1870; Administrator and
    Commander-in-Chief, Griqualand West; commanded troops Northern
    Border Expedition, 1879; Bechuanaland Expedition, 1884-1885;
    Suakim, 1886; Commissioner Metropolitan Police, 1886-1888;
    commanded troops Straits Settlements, 1889-1894;
    Lieutenant-General in command of 5th Div.  South African Field
    Force, 1899-1900.  Author of works concerning the archaeology of
    Jerusalem; also of “On Veldt in the Seventies,” and of “The
    Ancient Cubit and Our Weights and Measures.”—­["Who’s Who.”]

fa fa, John WARREN (1767-1838), Dean of Bangor, N.W.

fa fa bro, Frederick WARREN (1775-1848), Vice-Admiral; defeated Danish gunboat flotilla in the Belt, 1809; Commander-in-Chief at the Cape, 1831-1834; Admiral-Superintendent at Plymouth, 1837-1841.—­["Dict.  N. Biog.”]

fa fa bro, Pelham WARREN (1778-1835), M.D., F.R.S., Physician at St. George’s Hosp.; Harveian orator, 1826; Physician to the King.—­["Dict.  N. Biog.”]

fa, Sir Charles WARREN (1798-1866), K.C.B., Major-General; served in India, 1840-1848; in China, 1841-1844; in the Crimea, 1854-1856.—­["Dict.  N. Biog.”]

fa bro, John WARREN (1796-1852), F.R.S., mathematician; Fellow and Tutor of Jesus Coll., Cambridge; Chancellor of Bangor.—­["Dict.  N. Biog.”]

son, Richard WARREN (b. 1876), first-class honours, Natural Science, Oxford; scholarship in Anatomy and Physiology, London Hosp.; Radcliffe Travelling Fellow, Oxford; house physician, house surgeon, and senior resident accoucheur, London Hosp.

fa fa fa, Richard WARREN (1731-1797), M.D., F.R.S., Fellow of Jesus Coll., Cambridge; Physician to George III., and to George, Prince of Wales.—­["Dict.  N. Biog.”]

Bertram Coghill Alan #WINDLE# (b. 1858), F.R.S., President of
    Queen’s Coll., Cork; M.D., D.Sc., Dublin; late Dean of the
    Medical Faculty and Professor of Anatomy and Anthropology,
    University of Birmingham; author of scientific papers, books on
    anatomy, anthropology, and literature, “Tyson’s Pygmies of the
    Ancients,” “Life in Early Britain,” etc.—­["Who’s Who.”]

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