Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) - Part 5
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_bro_, Joseph Morthland COTTERILL, D.D. (hon. causa), St. Andrew's University.

_fa son_, Henry COTTERILL, Senior Wrangler, 1835; second cla.s.sic, Fellow of St. John's Coll., Cambridge; Bishop of Edinburgh.--["Grad.

Cant."]

_bro son_, Joseph M. COTTERILL (b. 1851), Surgeon to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Lecturer at Edinburgh School of Medicine.--["Who's Who."]

_bro son_, Arthur COTTERILL, Head of Permanent Way Department Egyptian Railway Administration.

_fa bro son_, Thomas COTTERILL, third wrangler, 1832; fellow of St.

John's Coll., Cambridge; one of the earliest members of the London Mathematical Soc., to which he contributed many papers of importance.--["Grad. Cant."]

George Howard #DARWIN# (b. 1845), F.R.S., second wrangler, 1868; Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy, Cambridge; author of many papers in the "Philosophical Transactions" relating to tides, physical astronomy, and cognate subjects; President of British a.s.sociation in 1905 at Cape Town.--["Who's Who."]

_fa fa fa_, Erasmus DARWIN, M.D., F.R.S. (1731-1802), physician, poet, and philosopher; author of "Botanic Garden," "Zoonomia," and other works, in which he maintained a view of evolution subsequently expounded by Lamarck.--["Life," by Ch. R. Darwin, and "Dict. N.

Biog."]

_fa fa_, Robert Waring DARWIN (1766-1848), M.D., F.R.S., sagacious and distinguished physician; described by his son, Charles R. Darwin, as "the wisest man I ever knew."--["Life and Letters of Charles R.

Darwin," i. 10-20.]

_fa fa bro_, Charles DARWIN (1758-1778), of extraordinary promise, gained first gold medal of aesculapian Society for experimental research; died from a dissection wound, aged twenty; many obituary notices.--["Life and Letters of Charles R. Darwin," i. 7.]

_fa bro_, Erasmus DARWIN. (See Carlyle's inexact description, and the appreciations of him by his brother and others, in "Life and Letters of Charles R. Darwin," i. 21-25.)

_fa_, Charles Robert DARWIN (1809-1882), F.R.S., the celebrated naturalist. The dates of his works are "Voyage of the _Beagle_,"

1840; "Origin of Species," 1859; followed by a succession of eight important volumes ranging from 1862 to 1881, each of which confirmed and extended his theory of descent. Among the very numerous biographical memoirs it must suffice here to mention "Life and Letters," by Francis Darwin, and "Dict. N. Biog."

_me me fa_, Josiah WEDGWOOD, F.R.S. (1730-1795), the famous founder of the pottery works.--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_me me bro_, Thomas WEDGWOOD (1771-1805), an experimenter in early life, and in one sense the first to create photography; a martyr to ill-health later. Sydney Smith knew "no man who appeared to have made such an impression on his friends," his friends including many of the leading intellects of the day.--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_me fa fa_ (she was her husband's _fa bro dau_), Josiah WEDGWOOD, F.R.S.; see above.

_me bro_, Hensleigh WEDGWOOD (1803-1891), author of "Etymological Dictionary" and of other works, partly mathematical.--["Dict. N.

Biog."]

_me bro dau_, Julia WEDGWOOD, essayist.

_bro_, Francis DARWIN (b. 1848), F.R.S., botanist; biographer of his father; reader in botany at Cambridge, 1876-1903; foreign sec.

Royal Society. Author of botanical works and memoirs.--["Who's Who."]

_bro_, Major Leonard DARWIN (b. 1850), late R.E., second in the examination of his year for Woolwich; served on several scientific expeditions, including transit of Venus of 1874 and 1882; Staff Intelligence Dep. War Office, 1885-1890; M.P. for Lichfield, 1892-1895. Author of "Bimetallism," "Munic.i.p.al Trade."--["Who's Who."]

_bro_, Horace DARWIN (b. 1851), F.R.S., engineer and mechanician; joint founder of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company and its proprietor. It is now a limited company, of which he is chairman.--["Who's Who."]

_More distant relation:_

_fa fa si son_, Francis GALTON, F.R.S. (q.v.).

Sir John #EVANS# (b. 1823), K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., Sc.D., F.R.S., President of the Royal Numismatic Society since 1874; trustee of the British Museum; treasurer and vice-president of the Royal Society during twenty years; has been president of numerous learned societies; author of works on the coins of the Ancient Britons, and on their stone and bronze implements.--["Who's Who,"

and "Ency. Brit."]

_fa fa_, Lewis EVANS (1755-1827), F.R.S., F.A.S., mathematician; first Mathematical Master of R.M.A., Woolwich.--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_fa_, Arthur Benoni EVANS (1781-1854), D.D., miscellaneous writer; Professor of Cla.s.sics and History, R.M.C., 1805-1822; headmaster of Market Bosworth Grammar School, 1825-1854.--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_me bro_ and _wi fa_, John d.i.c.kINSON (1782-1869), F.R.S., inventor of paper-making machine.

_bro_, Sebastian EVANS, LL.D., poet, artist, and author.

_si_, Anne EVANS (1820-1870), poet and musician, composer.--["Dict.

N. Biog."]

_son_, Arthur John EVANS (b. 1851), D.Litt. (Oxon), Hon. D.Litt.

(Dublin), Hon. LL.D. (Edinburgh), F.R.S., Keeper of Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, since 1884; in 1893 started investigations in Crete, which resulted in the discovery of the pre-Phoenician script; in 1900-1905 excavated the prehistoric palace of Knossos.--["Who's Who."]

_me bro son_ and _wi bro_, John d.i.c.kINSON (1815-1876), writer on India, and founder of Indian Reform Society, 1853.--["Dict. N.

Biog."]

Right Hon. Sir Edward #FRY# (b. 1827), D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., Judge of High Court, Chancery Division, 1877-1883; Lord Justice of Appeal, 1883-1892; President of the Royal Com. on the Irish Land Acts, 1897-1898; Chairman of the Court of Arbitration under the Metropolitan Water Act, 1902; member of the Permanent Court of International Arbitration at the Hague; author of a "Treatise on the Specific Performance of Contracts," of "British Mosses," and "The Mycetozoa."--["Who's Who."]

_fa bro_, Francis FRY (1803-1886), member of the firm of J.S. Fry and Co., Bristol; a great authority on bibliography.--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_bro_, Right Hon. Lewis FRY (b. 1832), M.P. for Bristol, 1878-1885; N. Bristol, 1885-1892, and 1895-1900.--["Who's Who."]

_bro_, Joseph Storrs FRY, has maintained and extended a large manufacturing business, and taken an active part in philanthropic work.

_fa fa fa_, Joseph FRY (1728-1787), practised medicine in Bristol, afterwards manufactured cocoa and chocolate; started type-founding business with William Pine, 1764.--["Dic. N. Biog."]

_fa fa bro_, Edmund FRY (1754-1835), M.D. of Edinburgh; devoted his life to the business of type-founding, and to the philological studies connected with it.--["Dic. N. Biog."]

_wife_, Mariabella, nee HODGKIN, _dau_ of the historian.

Francis #GALTON# (b. 1822), D.C.L., Hon. Sc.D. (Camb.), F.R.S., traveller, anthropologist and biometrician; author of many works and memoirs on these and a.n.a.logous subjects, including meteorology, heredity, identification by fingerprints; latterly a promoter of the study of Eugenics. Gold medal R. Geog. Soc., 1853, for travels in Damaraland, S. Africa; Royal medal, 1886, and Darwin medal, 1903, of the Royal Soc., for applications of measurement to human faculty; Huxley medal of the Anthropol.

Inst.i.tute, 1901.--["Ency. Brit.," and "Who's Who."]

_fa si_, SCHIMMELPENNINCK (1778-1856), Mrs. Mary Anne, author of various works, mostly theological, and on the Port Royalists and Moravians.--["Dic. N. Biog."]

_fa fa fa_, Samuel GALTON (1720-1799), cultured Quaker philanthropist, contractor and banker.--[See life of above M.A.S., and the "Annual Register."]

_fa me bro_, Robert Barclay ALLARDICE (1779-1854), commonly known as Capt. BARCLAY of Ury, pedestrian, noted for his walking feats, agriculturist.--["Dic. N. Biog."]